2026-05-23
The final day of the trip has arrived. We woke around 6:30ish, and I did toast and jam for breakfast, and used the last of the milk for a short coffee (thus the toast, rather than porridge). After breakfast, we wandered down to the lagoon for some early morning birds.
We then washed up the dishes and packed down, which is really fast when you don't bother to unhitch or put the legs down overnight. We were away by 8:20 and heading towards Millmerran. The road from Yelarbon to Millmerran wasn't too bad, and there was very little traffic once past Inglewood. We reached Millmerran around morning tea time, so stopped across from the Forage Kitchen and Café, where we decided to partake in some delicious morning tea. Lea had Tea and a Friand, and I had a Biscoff Caramel Slice and an Iced Coffee.
There was more traffic from Millmerran north, since we were now on the Gore Highway heading towards Toowoomba. We took the bypass (a toll road, but less steep and a very good surface), which joins straight on to the Gatton Bypass, which comes out at UQ Gatton. We tried stopping in Plainlands for some lunch, but there was no easily found long parking (we're 11m long when hitched up), so we bailed on that plan and kept going.
We stopped briefly in Samford to get some milk (figuring youngest child may not have bought any) and a light lunch from the bakery before arriving home just before 15:00. Where we unpacked the van and car, then turned the van around and parked it on a ramp to level it.
Our approximate route (with bits missing because the old Garmin Oregon 300 I was using to record the track gave up the ghost after Dubbo on the way back, and was flaky before that).
That'll be the only big trip this year. We might have more shorter caravan adventures yet, and the Big Lap is still planned for next year.