The Hunter Valley

Little did we know that our visit to Cessnock and the Hunter  Valley was going to make some major changes in our travelling life.
 It started with a visit to Cessnock Toyota who were having a sale when we passed through on our way to Broke.   We arranged to see them again the next day and signed up for a new Toyota Landcruiser ute which would be delivered the following week after transfer of our gear off the Pathfinder  ie towbar ,plug lights and antennas.
 To facilitate this we moved into the Caravan Park at Cessnock and there we made some wonderful friends and gathered for "sundowners " most nights at the  BBQ area across the road. Lynn took the opportunity to get everything out of the back of the " old girl" and have a major sort out of things and where he would store them for travelling.

 Among our new friends at Cessnock were Marj and Jim who kindly looked after our herbs while we were away at Gosford over  Xmas with Adam and Tracey. We were also able to catch up with Robert and his sons Matthew and Nicholas when we all went to Sydney for overnight stay.

 On our return to Cessnock our group of friends expanded and contracted as people came and went but Marj and Jim and Mark and Joan  were still there when we left to  go back to Broke.  When we said that we were going back to Broke  Mike and Kerry decided to join us as they had done little "free camping" and thought it was an ideal place to start.

 We had a wonderful few days with them playing cards etc  before we headed north and they went  to Mudgee. We ended up at Bretti for 2 days before joining  son Micheal and his family at Manning Point.

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