First days on the road

So left Friday (30/9) and got to Paul's place outside Warwick Qld, on the back of Leslie dam - great spot to have 100 acre's, went over to Brian's and helped unload his house contents as he moved on to the neighbouring property and built a new house and then had a feed and slept in comfort, practiced with a couple of beers and a bottle of red.  Paul has loaned us his GPS for the trip which means we will be coming back through this way when heading home.  Drove to Neal's place (170 acre's) over looking Lockyer valley.  Went via Charlton and got a supply of jerky for the trip at "Jim's Jerky".  Helped to put up a Trampoline and take down a race and set off again the following morning after more practice with beer and Wild Turkey.  Looking at the map we found a place west of Roma (at Neal's suggestion and a quick call to the previous manager) called Muckadilla.  We figured we could get there comfortably before kick off 4.00pm before the telecast starts of the NRL 2011 Grand Final.

The Muckadilla pub is 30 mins west of Roma in a small town that has a fuel stop, a rail head and a couple of houses.  You can camp in the grounds of the pub free and they have toilets and showers available for use.  You can pay $10 for the night if you want power (we don't, solar working well).  While this first pub is not in the "Book" it was well placed for us to watch the game.  The pub has a selection on tap of Carlton, Toohey's and XXXX, it even had Toohey's old.  The first couple went down quick while we chatted with the owner John.  He told us he was from Woodburn down our way and about how the pub was 64 years old.  He pointed us to a bit of the history of the town and the original plans to set up a health spa because of the therapeutic nature of the water, this never eventuated.  John gave us a couple more pubs to look up along the way and confirmed some of the ones in the book.

We settled in and watched the game with around a dozen others, some local's and some fellow travellers who had the same idea to find a TV for the afternoon.  Kev was happy with the result and it was the deserved outcome, (Kev was not the only one going for Manly, there was one other demented soul).  After the game we had a feed at the pub and for $12 got a choice of roast port, chicken or bangers and mash, great value.  We rolled out the swags early with plans to head for the Gladstone Hotel in Wyandra.