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We received a phone call from her saying that she had had an accident and would
we come and help her. It was quite a few miles away and when we got there, here
was the Beetle with its feet in the air and resting on its roof. Our daughter was OK,
and we were able to transfer her furniture to another vehicle, but the Beetle was
beyond redemption and we had to tearfully let her go.
I wanted to travel around Australia in a caravan, but there were two problems. We
didn't have a caravan, and our car was only a four cylinder Toyota, not powerful
enough to tow a caravan. Sometime in the first couple of years of this century, I
received a note from a friend in Sydney to say that the British Government were
offering a cash payment to British subjects who had been prisoners of war under the
Japanese. I was given a contact number in
England and the long and the short of it
was that one day I found $AUD27,000
safely deposited in my bank account. With
this money we were able to buy a two year
old 3.8 litre Holden sedan, and later a
caravan which we improved as much as we
could. This enabled us to do our trip
around Australia in 2007.
Somewhere in the Great Outback! When we were in Euroa, we were building
a new church building and one day it was
necessary to pick up a load of bricks from Seymour. One of the church members
had a truck, but no one was available to drive it. I knew the local policeman and
when I told him my predicament, he added a truck license to my driver's license.
There is only one unfulfilled dream I have that relates to wheels. I have always
wanted to drive a semi-trailer interstate. It's not likely to happen now. Maybe there is
a semi waiting for me in heaven. Or a B-double?
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We received a phone call from her saying that she had had an accident and would
we come and help her. It was quite a few miles away and when we got there, here
was the Beetle with its feet in the air and resting on its roof. Our daughter was OK,
and we were able to transfer her furniture to another vehicle, but the Beetle was
beyond redemption and we had to tearfully let her go.
I wanted to travel around Australia in a caravan, but there were two problems. We
didn't have a caravan, and our car was only a four cylinder Toyota, not powerful
enough to tow a caravan. Sometime in the first couple of years of this century, I
received a note from a friend in Sydney to say that the British Government were
offering a cash payment to British subjects who had been prisoners of war under the
Japanese. I was given a contact number in
England and the long and the short of it
was that one day I found $AUD27,000
safely deposited in my bank account. With
this money we were able to buy a two year
old 3.8 litre Holden sedan, and later a
caravan which we improved as much as we
could. This enabled us to do our trip
around Australia in 2007.
Somewhere in the Great Outback! When we were in Euroa, we were building
a new church building and one day it was
necessary to pick up a load of bricks from Seymour. One of the church members
had a truck, but no one was available to drive it. I knew the local policeman and
when I told him my predicament, he added a truck license to my driver's license.
There is only one unfulfilled dream I have that relates to wheels. I have always
wanted to drive a semi-trailer interstate. It's not likely to happen now. Maybe there is
a semi waiting for me in heaven. Or a B-double?
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