The Bassett family site
4—8 Sep—Bendigo, VIC Leaving Finley we travelled on the Newell Highway and then onto the Northern Highway to Elmore and then we turned onto the Midland Highway heading to Epsom (just a little way out of Bendigo), where we stayed at the Golden Nugget Tourist Park for three nights. While in town we had quite …
3—4 Sep—Finley, NSW Leaving Forbes we continued on the Newell Highway through to Finley Showground for the night and we decided to stay hitched ready to leave as we’ve stayed here before and explored the area, it’s just a lay over and we were on our way again. It was a long day with five …
Tuesday 29 July—Monday 18 August 2025 Hitting the road again for a few weeks, we left Granville at 1030 hrs on a sunny day and headed to Tea Gardens, a favourite of ours. We arrived at 1330 hrs and set up in the car park of the Baptist Church as the grass was still too …
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Notional itinerary:- # Date / Location # Date / Location 1 14 Aug / Morisset, NSW 12 3 Oct / Tumby Bay, SA 2 19 Aug / Cassilis, NSW 13 22 Oct / Whyalla, SA 3 30 Aug / Forbes, NSW 14 27 Oct / Quorn, SA 4 3 Sep / Finley, NSW 15 31 …
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30 Aug—3 Sep—Forbes, NSW Leaving Cassilis at 1035 hrs we travelled along Cassilis Rd and turned right onto the Golden Highway to Cobbs Rd Dubbo and then turned left onto Erskine St/Newell Highway and travelled on to Forbes Showground; we stayed for four nights. It was very windy as we drove and it took about …
19—30 Aug—Cassilis, NSW Leaving Morisset we travelled north on the M1/Pacific Motorway and we turned left onto the Hunter Expressway and then left onto the Golden Highway toward Cassilis—pronounced (according to locals) as “CASS-ilis”, not “ca-SIL-is” (although naturally Google only understands the former!). We stopped at Merriwa Bakery and had pies and a pasty for …
14—19 Aug—Morisset, NSW We’ve stayed here in the showground before and explored the area, so not a lot of that this time around. Good thing, as the weather is not fantastic and the grounds are very muddy. We’ve had a fuse in the truck blow—the one that feeds the “house” battery for the fridge, etc—a …
Thursday 5 June to Thursday 3 July 2025 We are on the road again (sounds like a song), all packed up and heading to Singleton for a couple of weeks. It’s 1050 hrs on a brisk sunny morning and there is quite a lot of traffic for the whole trip. At 1350 hrs we arrive …
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A listing of the various bits’n’pieces we’ve done to our truck—or it’s done to us! [listing compiled bottom-up] August 2025: heading out to Cassilis on the first leg of a planned 3+ month trip and we started overheating again (shades of last October!) This time is obviously different as the fan is definitely working and …
24 May 2025 marks the two year point for us living full-time in our van (Reen says I have to get used to referring to it as a 5R!). As we did twelve months ago, we’re reflecting on how things are going; including lessons we’ve learned, things we really like/enjoy and things that irk us …