2007 Travel diary: Day 1

 Pre-trip

I have found some of our diary entries from our 2007 Australian trip.  I have already posted two letters here and here that I wrote from Darwin which give a snap shot from the middle of the trip.  I home schooled the kids while we were travelling and a part of our lessons was to encourage them to write about their experiences.  I remember that at times it felt like trying to get blood out of a stone.  Steve wrote extensively, going through a couple of books.  I believe he intends to write his notes up onto his blog at some stage.  I was a slow starter, probably because I was riding the kids trying to get them to write.  About the time that I picked up writing, they seemed to ease off.  I thought that I'd share some of our (Evan, Sarah and my) writings here.

Okay firstly my entry for 21/3/07...boring!!!lol.
pack clothes
medical supplies
kitchen goods - curry pwd, mixed herbs, salt, pepper, vegemite, peanut butter, tea, coffee. Whisk, metal bowl, silicon bowl.
Leave for trip
Harry - Preschool/ homework
Sarah - maths book pages
Evan - maths book pages
Lunch @ KFC $36.00
Casino - shopping -woollies, petrol
Set up camp Border Ranges.

Thrilling, huh?

Evan hasn't got an entry for this day, but Sarah wrote quite a bit:

Day 1 Wednesday 21st March 21/3/07

Dear Diary

Day 1 and we're off. FINALLY. It took us ages and ages to pack and get everything ready. Mum had to vacuum all the rooms then mop the hard floors as well.  It was 1:15 by the time we were on the road and then we went and got lunch at KFC. It was well into the afternoon before we got to Casino.

I finished 2 pages in my maths book on the way here and I watched most of EMMA on our portable DVD player.

I helped to put up the tent and set up camp.

Next to us is a couple from Texas. You can tell they are from America because of their accents. They are very nice and talk to us. They said goodbye when they left this morning.

Last night I had a good sleep except that I didn't get to read so it was hard to get to sleep. I had to get up a few times and go to the dark stinky pit toilet.

We had bacon and eggs for breakfast, but I didn't eat much because I don't eat much at breakfast.

I hope this will be fun

The Borders N.P. NSW

The trip begins. New hairdos

Caption on the back of the photo reads: 1st Official Campsite Border Ranges NP

Here is our first video for the trip.