Heading north

It was a fond farewell from the Tassie Isle as we popped into Mum and Dads in Gippsland for the weekend and I was lucky enough to spend some time with my daughter Haylee. Rachel spent time with her much loved Burmese cats and little Indie, our Tenterfield Terrior,or they spent time in our bed!Cheyenne our Lab is now able to run around a bit outside her pen without taking off, which is fabulous. After seeing Haylees rehearsal for the school play on Sunday it was preparation time for the haul north to Maitland where we had another show booked for the following weekend.
We headed up to a little rest stop just north of Cooma to start with and camped there the night, yep it was cold, by 9:00am whilst traveling through Canberra it topped just 3.5 degrees outside. We were of course toasty warm in the Touareg with the seat heaters on about 4, nothing was going to get cold in that vehicle. The XK660 of course sat comfortably behind us the whole way. We had a bit of squeeking in the hitch, easy fixed with a clean of the friction pads underneath. We pushed through on the Hume to Sydney and stopped in at the Parklea Tourist Park overnight. From there we headed straight into Raymond Terrace where we stayed with a good friend, Doug Meyers and his wife Sylvia. They gave us some power and water and we set up camp on their front lawn. Doug is another expert on the whole Geist range and is our National Sales agent. Doug mainly works in NSW but you will see him at all the big shows Australia wide and smaller NSW shows. We get on really well and enjoy too much red wine together when we catch up. Besides this though, we had a show to do at Maitland and it was fabulous to catch up with a few owners whilst we were there, especially Larry who did an amazing job helping us out on the stand. Larry owns an AK560 and was happy to give prospective buyers an honest opinion on the van. This year at Maitland we had the Worlds Best Drinking Furniture which was a great hit with the locals. Simon who makes them was there to show them off. We sold many sets of these, if you would like to order some, let me know for a special price, go to www.drumfurniture.com.au to see the photos but don't forget to come back to me for the special price.