Lockington

Saturday 15th August 2009
We had a nice and quiet night at Ouyen Caravan Park with our Caravan still attached to the car so we can have a quick start in the morning.
However, before we could leave Ouyen we had to go past the Mallee Bakery for some fresh Vanilla Slice.
Now that we are in Victoria it feels like home when we listen to ABC radio with all the familiar voices. The only radio program we have hear all the way around was Macca on Sunday morning.
The landscape is still looking lush and green - a stark contrast to what we've seen over the last couple of months. The cows around here look very well nourished and real healthy, not like the Brahmans we saw in the northern part of Australia.
Today's track took us further across the Mallee onto the Murray Valley Highway which goes all the way home. But we turned South just after the small township of Torrumbarry and headed through Lockington and onto Ron and Vicki's farm. After a 300km trip we arrived just in time for lunch and spent the afternoon chatting and looking around the farm while the kids played with Ron and Vicki's grand children.
By the time we finished talking it was too late for us to continue onto Albury so we stayed the night in our Caravan parked in the driveway. The weather was very mild and after a BBQ in the evening we sat around the patio fire reminiscing about our travel and dreaming about future travel plans. It was very nice to spend our last evening away from home with our friends who have shared so many of the travel experiences with us.
The fire went out a bit after 9pm and we went to our caravan bed for the last time on this trip.