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Jondaryan Woolshed

Dusty and I were feeling restless and homesick this morning. I didn't want to go home, necessarily, but I did want to make use of our time away by travelling and sightseeing instead of being at the caravan - the small space we have set ourselves up in really felt crowded for me this morning.  Dusty had also said that he wanted to go home to his BIG house, with a sad sigh. So, Tim suggested our first Toowoomba-area tourist destination, Jondaryan Woolshed.  The Woolshed museum features over a dozen buildings from Australia's earliest days, when Jon Daryan and surrounds were used for Merino Wool production - the first place in Australia to farm Merino Sheep.  It's more than just a sheep museum though. There are all kinds of relics, which were brought here from all around The Darling Downs, including a dairy/cheese factory, school room, tractor shed, railway line, a tea, stew-and-damper hut, and a yard full of farm animals including freshly hatched geese and baby goats. Shriek!

From Sunshine Coast to the Great Dividing Range

We have set up camp on a friend's farm in Pittsworth.  We are really grateful for our friends having offered us a place to park the caravan in exchange for a little garden tidying, which we will love. It means we have a whole week to catch up with friends and family in Toowoomba and Pittsworth before we head south.  After arriving, we reunited with Tim's parents. The boys were so excited to see nanna and poppy arrive in their truck after 5 months separation (N & P have been touring Australia's top-end.)  So lots of cuddles and enjoying each other's company.  It is totally picturesque, and deafeningly peaceful :) Don't you love it when the only noise around is your own voice talking - and when you stop... just a breeze blowing. The weather is stunning.  The boys loved our first night of watching the tractor dragging the fire harrows as the sun set. We plan to be here for a week. Over and out for now :) 

Golden Beach, Caloundra

We stayed at the Military Jetty Caravan Park for 7 days, the perfect time of year to be bay-side on the Sunshine Coast.  After a tearful farewell to our home the day before, and a reality check during the night that we were sleeping in a caravan with cars driving by, the first day I got up feeling strange - in shock, really. Maxie had me following him down to the shore at dawn, in pyjamas, to forage in the sand and climb the rocks. I took in a deep breath and a slow look around at the peaceful bay and thought, despite feeling the sadness of moving our boys away from our family home, it was all worth it. I would do it all again to be able to give this experience to my little boys. And besides - we'd promised Dusty that he would get to try out every single playground in Australia! So from day 1 we got straight into it. There's Dusty, just a little bit stoked, playground number 1. And Maxie, at their new local hangout!  We found ourselves picking 2kg of strawberries in the strawbe

This is it - the first day of our new adventure

This is it - our big day of our life on the road, turning nap times into driving journeys.  It has been a seriously big project, packing up an acre and 35square home with 2 young little ones and not just a move across houses, but a massive and complicated change in lifestyle. Every single thing we owned and all our little ways of doing things were evaluated (with lots of stuff sold, packed, modified) so we can live on the road instead. Feels amazing to be here on settlement day!  And our Bluebelle house looks beautiful after all the fixing and polishing, inside-and-out and especially the gardens. I've felt a little teary, walking around acknowledging every step of our journey here ... Every seedling raised, the hard work we both put in (especially Tim with his constructions) and remembering good times with friends and family here - especially when they all helped us pour concrete. What was once scrub is now a stunning property and we will want to return in a while to see how tall a