Roadtrip 2022: October 2022

Day 32 - 4/10/22 - Port Macquarie to Sydney

Final day of thre trip! Return to Sydney, unpack the van, drop it back to Taren Point & then drive home again - whew, what a big day fo finish!

We had an AWESOME time! It was better than we could have hoped. It was great to see so many new places and enjoy some great experiences, but the best part by far was spending time together. This is a trip that Taemar, Eva, Pippen and myself will remember fondly for a long time!

6,067km - the total distance of our trip!

Pippen in her standard travelling spot in the van

Dee Why - home again!

Day 31 - 3/10/22 - Port Macquarie

A walk on the dog beach at lighthouse beach, cofee & cake at the Bittersweet cafe (amazing range of treats!), a visit to the shops in town for Aela & Eva, and more food & drinks in the evening with great friends - a pretty good way to spend the last full day of our trip!

Bittersweet cafe

Love the Stick+Ball library at the dog beach at Lighthouse Beach!

Van on holiday (Lighthouse Beach)

House at Lighthouse Beach

Van on Holiday, Part Macquarie Town Beach

Day 30 - 2/10/22 - Tiona to Port Macquarie

after a morning walk on the beach behind the Tiona park, we headed back up the highway to Port Macquarie to stay with Sean & Karen. This wasn't the original plan but a combination of factors led us to this change:

We didn't spend anywhere near enough time with Sean & Karen yesterday
We didn't get to see Aela who was away on a trip in Tenterfield performing Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Parramatta made the Grand Final (Sean's team) and the game was on today
The Tiona Park wasn't as great as we expected, plus the internet was virtually non-existent and watching the Grand Final at all was going to be a challenge
Predicted rain that would make the Tiona park quite wet

What a great decision! We had a great day & evening. Unfortunately Parramatta was outclassed and poor Karen was quite sick, but we had a very enjoyable day including playing many games of cornhole with Sean and his mates from Baseball, plus living vicarously through the guys and their multi bets on the Grand Final!

Cocktails were required, of course!

Pippen in Archie's bed!

Beach at Tiona

Day 29 - 1/10/22 - Woolgoolga to Tiona

Woolgoolga to Tiona. Tiona (near Forster) was the park we were going to stay on our very first night of this trip, but due to the very wet weather we went inland to Orange instead. So we finally made it to Tiona for our last stop on this trip (so we thought) and it was a wet & rainy day anyway, although nowhere near as bad as what it would have been at the start of our trip!

We went for a walk to the Headland and stopped for breakfast at Bluebottles Brasserie for brekky which was a lovely start to the day.

We also popped in to see Sean & Karen in Port Macquarie on the way and it was great to catch up with them although it was far too short a time!