MUDGEE TO PARKES – DAY 4

THURSDAY 12th MARCH 2009 – MUDGEE TO PARKES – DAY 4

John and Sue phone us and want to see us before we leave Mudgee so after packing up we decide to meet them in town for coffee. Alan has to be at the dentist at 11:20am so we all meet at the coffee shop (we met at just a couple of days earlier) The Quaff Shop.

I mention to my cousin John that we went to the cemetery and whilst reading the headstones noticed my aunt’s (his mother’s) birth date to be different. He said he had never noticed it but Sue said that was true. Her real birth date is 3rd May not 8th!!!!! Oh well! She will never know!

After coffee, we buy last minute supplies, bid our farewells and leave for Parkes. Jan and Alan overtake us on the way and we keep in touch via our CB radios however ours is playing up so we arrange to meet them for an overnight in Parkes which despite long is uneventful – almost boring. We take turns to drive and whilst being the passenger take advantage of rest and relaxation.

We stop at the Spicer Caravan Park in Parkes – stay hooked up as we will leave here early the next day. Jan and Alan phone us to say they are going further and will meet us in Mildura.