Picking up the caravan Part 1

We had won the Auction on the Friday night and by Easter Sunday evening; I had spoken to the seller of the Caravan, who informs me that she had lost the rego label and she can get a replacement on Wednesday once the public holidays are over and Vicroads has opened again. So after a busy couple of days at work Wednesday comes and I finally here from the seller after lunch, she has a replacement label and I can now get the Caravan. Wish it was that easy, the van is located in Myrniong, Victoria. Which is about 60kms west of Melbourne, so a decision has to be made when to pick up the van? Seeing as it was about 1pm on Wednesday and I only have the 2 days off (Wed, Thurs) before going back to work for 6 days and having my next block of days off the following Friday which is my 3 day weekend.

So the big decision was to go down early on the Thursday morning and be back Thursday night or early Friday morning. Now the other major decision who was going to come with me, I spoke with Skye and told her to just call in sick and warned her that if she did ask her boss and he says no she can’t then turn around and call in sick cause it would look to suspicious. Skysie had decided that she would do the right thing and speak to her boss and ask for the day off, well didn’t that turn out to be a major drama. He told her that she could have the day off but gave her massive guilt trip on how busy they are and then he turns around and leaves within half hour and doesn’t turn up on the Thursday. Anyhow Skysie went to work and Mick who just happened to be on holidays was kind enough to do the drive with me. So I organise with mick to leave at 3am, early night to bed and I get a good sleep up at 2am have a shower and a cuppa, I get everything I need organised and it’s just before 3am. Sitting on the lounge waiting for mick to come over so we can head off, and it gets to 10 past and I give him a call and send a text I then spend the next 45minutes sending texts and calling him…. Noddy strikes again… we finally hit the road at 4am, oh well.

We hit the freeway and drive straight down to Gundagai and have a rest stop and breaky at the infamous golden arches, 20 minutes later and after freezing we get back on the road and just before Tarcutta there is some road works this continues on for many kilometres almost all the way to Holbrook. During this time mick has had many naps, we drive through Holbrook and I see a sign advertising the pub museum (apparently a famous icon) and a submarine café, sounds weird I know seeing as the nearest ocean is many kilometres away, so my interest to see this café and I was expecting to see a café shop front with a submarine sign or something, to my surprise in the middle of town there is a park which has a full size submarine which has a café as a part of it. We continue on headed for the border and finally make it to Albury/Wodonga the freeway by passes both towns and we continue on, one thing I noticed going over the border there are some funny road signs and the freeway is a lot straighter. Some of the road signs you may see say things like “TIRED, power nap NOW”…

cheers till next time
Benj.