52 Blessings - Week 11
This past week has been another crazy one with a mad dash down to rural NSW for a family event in the tiny one horse town of Quirindi. I love seeing new parts of Australia so it was a perfect excuse to extend the trip a little more than necessary and spend a few days in Dubbo, just for something different. On advice from some lovely Warwick locals I met at work, we headed west past Ipswich, south to Warwick and then further west to Goondiwindi and took the Newell Highway down to Dubbo. It made for a much quicker trip than the route we were planning on taking. But boy was it boring as far as landscape is concerned. No hills. No mountain ranges. Just flat plains, some planted with crops, as far as the eye could see. Oh and of course, B double trailers by the score. On the way home, we decided to go up the New England Highway instead which was just lovely in comparison. We didn’t get to see too much of the New England region on our return home but it would be nice to go back down to Glen Innes and stay a few days and see more of the area.
I guess if you have ever done any fairly long trips over a short course of days, you’ll know the kind of fatigue that sets in after several days of being constantly on the go. We had ten hours to Dubbo the first day, the next day off sight-seeing and visiting the zoo, then the next day four hours to Quirindi and finally a good seven hour drive home. Although we loved visiting NSW, we were grateful to Cunningham’s Gap looming ahead of us. From there, we knew we only had an hour to go and it truly was a sight for sore eyes. I couldn’t get a decent shot from the other side of the gap due to dense foliage but I did get a snap coming down the other side. 
