We were enjoying time off and did some exploring of Victoria in between packing up the house. Went gold detecting in Maryborough and Creswick, did a trip down the great ocean road, did a trip up to Toowoomba to pick up our caravan and spent 10 days at Ballina. Tripped down the NSW coast and back to Melbourne to finish packing... Spent a few days in Ballarat visiting Sovereign Hill and teaching my daughter how to pan for gold... A few days in Castlemaine sightseeing then on to Parkes to catch up with Rod and Jen..... Looks like we may be here for a while thanks to Rod taking pity on the wandering unemployed and giving me some work... lol..

I got the wireless modem activated and finally figured out how to connect to it so we have Internet in the van now.... Seems to work pretty good so far.... A bit too stuffed to be on it during the week though as still getting used to doing physical labour again after 6 yrs as an office jockey....