Hi Everyone,
It has been a little while since I last posted a blog, and life has been very interesting to say the least! After Yarram, I went off to a few spots in the Latrobe Valley to fill in the week before I was due at Sale for the next Rally! I have been most impressed with the beautiful scenery around this part of Victoria. I have always loved to see hills and trees and rivers etc, I think it comes from WA being so flat and dry! Parts of Victoria , just leave me driving with my mouth hanging open! Very reminiscent of Tasmania!
Back to motorhoming rally. At Sale we were 850 odd, motorhomes and about 1500 people. I was "lucky" enough to be issued with a site with electricity, not that it stayed on all day! and was in the middle of the Sale showground oval. The 850 motorhomes, were scattered around the Sale showgrounds, Sale Greyhound track, and the Gippsland Grammar schoo1 grounds also, there was an area between the showgrounds and the cattle sale yards, known as Siberia where the "big" rigs were parked! It was amazing the orgasnisation that went into getting this rally off the ground. Over 250 volunteers put in an extra week before the rally starts, being inducted into occ health and safety issues! For the privilege of working their butts off they pay for their sites and get a shirt and a hat and 2 bbqs!
Obviously because of the larger numbers at the national rallies, they don't supply meals, like they do at the solo rallies, but they supply some really beautiful entertainment at nights. We had a fabulous pair of popera singers, gotgeous voices. The poor woman never was able to take off her overcoat, as we were in a very large marquee, which was absolutely freezing! she changed her gown 3 times, but you only saw what hung down below the length of her coat! There was also a back to school social, which was the theme party. Motorhomers are really into dressing up parties! I seem to be very much a stick in the mud!
I have booked myself into the next national rally at Boonah in south Qld, where I have also put myself down for a voluntary position with the craft barn.
Finally the rally was over and I drove to Woodleigh to visit with my Victorian friend who used to live in Donnybrook in WA. It has been a great reunion, from 1988 about, since we last saw each other. Glenda and Ray, actually travel back and forth to Donnybrook annually, to a farm there, but we have never been able to tee up the connection, So here we are in Victoria. I am parked here on their farm, and able to leave the motorhome here while I fly back to WA for my regular visit later this week. Unfortunately, Glenda and Ray had booked a trip to Tasmania, they left on Sunday, but she left me the keys to her convertible!! for me to go sightseeing while they are away! How lucky am I? Today I drove to Wonthaggi and along the bass strait coast, seeing magnificent scenery, of course who is the idiot who left the camera behind? Oh well my mind will recall the scenery. I found a fabulous patchwork shop and of course had a little binge shop, and tomorrow I am going to the shop to spend the day sewing with the local ladies and getting my head around a new quilt! oH JOY.
Well folks , that is about all for this episode! I will be in touch again soon.
Monday, April 16, 2012
Monday, April 2, 2012
Hippy Wedding Rally
Hi Everyone,
I have just finished a week at Yarram in Victoria, withthe Solo motorhoming group. The theme of the rally was a Hippy Wedding. We finished up a really fun week with a big party night with everyone dressing up as hippies going to a wedding! It is amazing how people who live in motorhomes can come up with all this stuff to wear! I know I have a bit extra, (the cruise clothes!) but most people flock to the op shops to get their gear!!
We arrived at Yarram and parked ourselves around the local recreation reserve, toilets and showers supplied, but only a few could have power, and of course we all had to hold our " grey water" in our tanks.
First night we had a lovely meal supplied by the local footy club, then it was alll go for the next 5 days. There were early morning walks, for those so inclined!, information sessions, instructions on motorhoming facts and fiction, rock and roll and line dancing, stitch and bitch sessions and MY Patchwork Class!
Most nights there were food supplied, if you wanted it. Every afternoon of course there was Happy Hour! ( my liver could do with a rest!) and so the week passed, we were within walking distance of town, but there was also a courtesy bus supplied, which was handy as we had a few days of heavy rain! The oval and roads around were awash with mud and slops! It really didn't dry off at all over the week.
Yarram was a pretty town and we had several excursions to nearby town Port Albert and the TaraBulga National Park. The townsfolk were very welcoming to us, I guess it makes sense as we probably dropped a few thousand dollars into their pockets by the time we left. There were approximately 230 odd solo motorhomers came to town.
We had an interesting talk from a local lawyer, about wills and power of attorney etc, then the local undertaker talked about preboooked funeral services etc. Very interestingly he had a booklet printed up with all the information you need to supply at that time, and it is true, not everyone in the family knows all that stuff. So although it was pertinent to his company, I decided to take one and fill it out and leave it in a prominent place - "just in case". Course now I need to tell someone in the family where it is, so if they get a dreaded call they can direct someone to what my wishes are!
The trip over to Port Albert, was a lovely day, we took a trip to a very old church, that was made by a prefabricated method, and we ended up with the most delicious fresh fish at the pub and some of us had seafood at the wharf. The pub was warmer, they had massive roaring open fire in the bar, it was wonderful!
At the end of a very enjoyable, tiring week, I decided to try and book into the Sale rally over Easter. A lot of the Solos were going there and so I will have a few friends to catch up with , also it makes it easier to go there for Easter as everything will be very heavily booked, it is also school holidays! I can't get used to other states timetables!
Any way, I am at Leongatha now and have another problem with my reversing camera!! It fell off the windscreen! I can't get it fixed until Traralgon.
To end off this blog, I am deleriously happy!! The Fremantle Dockers, My footy team, won their first round game on the weekend! Against the trophy holders from last year!!! Yea!! Also the eagles, West Australia's other team also had a win! what a great start to the footy season.
So good luck to you all for the footy tipping competitions! Until the next blog
Vicki
I have just finished a week at Yarram in Victoria, withthe Solo motorhoming group. The theme of the rally was a Hippy Wedding. We finished up a really fun week with a big party night with everyone dressing up as hippies going to a wedding! It is amazing how people who live in motorhomes can come up with all this stuff to wear! I know I have a bit extra, (the cruise clothes!) but most people flock to the op shops to get their gear!!
We arrived at Yarram and parked ourselves around the local recreation reserve, toilets and showers supplied, but only a few could have power, and of course we all had to hold our " grey water" in our tanks.
First night we had a lovely meal supplied by the local footy club, then it was alll go for the next 5 days. There were early morning walks, for those so inclined!, information sessions, instructions on motorhoming facts and fiction, rock and roll and line dancing, stitch and bitch sessions and MY Patchwork Class!
Most nights there were food supplied, if you wanted it. Every afternoon of course there was Happy Hour! ( my liver could do with a rest!) and so the week passed, we were within walking distance of town, but there was also a courtesy bus supplied, which was handy as we had a few days of heavy rain! The oval and roads around were awash with mud and slops! It really didn't dry off at all over the week.
Yarram was a pretty town and we had several excursions to nearby town Port Albert and the TaraBulga National Park. The townsfolk were very welcoming to us, I guess it makes sense as we probably dropped a few thousand dollars into their pockets by the time we left. There were approximately 230 odd solo motorhomers came to town.
We had an interesting talk from a local lawyer, about wills and power of attorney etc, then the local undertaker talked about preboooked funeral services etc. Very interestingly he had a booklet printed up with all the information you need to supply at that time, and it is true, not everyone in the family knows all that stuff. So although it was pertinent to his company, I decided to take one and fill it out and leave it in a prominent place - "just in case". Course now I need to tell someone in the family where it is, so if they get a dreaded call they can direct someone to what my wishes are!
The trip over to Port Albert, was a lovely day, we took a trip to a very old church, that was made by a prefabricated method, and we ended up with the most delicious fresh fish at the pub and some of us had seafood at the wharf. The pub was warmer, they had massive roaring open fire in the bar, it was wonderful!
At the end of a very enjoyable, tiring week, I decided to try and book into the Sale rally over Easter. A lot of the Solos were going there and so I will have a few friends to catch up with , also it makes it easier to go there for Easter as everything will be very heavily booked, it is also school holidays! I can't get used to other states timetables!
Any way, I am at Leongatha now and have another problem with my reversing camera!! It fell off the windscreen! I can't get it fixed until Traralgon.
To end off this blog, I am deleriously happy!! The Fremantle Dockers, My footy team, won their first round game on the weekend! Against the trophy holders from last year!!! Yea!! Also the eagles, West Australia's other team also had a win! what a great start to the footy season.
So good luck to you all for the footy tipping competitions! Until the next blog
Vicki
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