2014 On the road again

Hi Friends,
 Here I am on the road again. I have spent a good time in WA since April, seeing family and fr iends and of course quilting. The family had a bit of a scare inAugust, around the time of mm's 99 th birthday. She had a particularly nasty bout of shingles which became infected, turned into septicaemia, had fluid on the lungs, you name it poor mum was doing it hard. but she rallied thru, no dubt about it, she's a fighter. Is almost back to her old self, so I felt able to head off again. Then a cousin passed away so I waited another few days until after the fneral, then wa had a heatwave. So finally on Monday I headed off om Suth yerup at about 29 degres. stayed at a lovely campsite called Louis Lookout over the first night, then pushed on to Norseman. I am so out of touch with long distance travel, I forgot to fill the water tanks!!from Norseman i it the heat again, by lunch time the outsi temp was hitting 44 and upwards, but the old /new donga kept on going with not a falter. It was me conking out. I stopped over night at Madura Pass caravan park, for th e power , and the airconditioner working all night! Took off about 7 local time and boy did it get hot. Outside temp hit 51, so I slowed down so the tyres were not going too hard , made more stops for cold drinks than fuel! and arrived at Penong S on Thursday afternoon. I didn't push on to ceduna as I could see a big bushfire ahead and didn't want to run into that. 4 hours before the aircon hot the inside temp down to 28. Yep I can sure pick my travelling dates. !!
So I carried on this morning to Ceduna booked into the foreshore caravan park, I am almost a regular now, did some washing and sitting down with a beaut view of the bay and a cool breeze blowing. Off to the pub tonight for some famous ceduna seafood. and maybe a coldie or two.
 so herr I am heading for LOch in Victoria to pick up some of my stuff I had to leave behind last year and continue with my travels. send me word if you are around and we can meet up.  wishing you all the best for a happy and healthy 2014.
 love vickiy