Mission Beach to Mount Isa, Qld

Brekkie Pies in Hughenden. Have to say not as good as Babinda, but still right up there. Great Roadtrip Food

Our first road trip with Rex and Florence pulling up along the way in Townsville, Hughenden and Cloncurry. Highlights included seeing Shovel’s family and playing frisbee in the park, eating pies for breakfast in Hughenden and watching the third Test Australia vs Pakistan in Sydney at a Richmond pub. It was slow going when only travelling at 80kph, but loads of fun and feels great knowing everything we need is right there with us. Shovel never stops amazing me with his deadly hidden talents and did an amazing job reversing Florence and changing her tyre on the highway just outside of Cloncurry. We were gratefully thankful to Will (a bloke with a ‘hill billy’ sticker on his Ford Ute) that helped us out by lending us his wheel brace. That age old adage played true as you should never judge a book by it’s cover. Will was driving from Brisbane back to his home town Darwin for work, he would travel the 3000+kms through the night and was doing this to support his wife and 2year old daughter who were both back in Brisbane. His daughter has cancer and would have to remain in Brisbane for another year receiving treatment. It completely broke our hearts that this guy would stop to help us when he himself had so much going on. I tried to offer him 50 bucks to go and buy dinner, but he refused, saying he was just happy to help. I wish government money could instead be spent providing Will and people in this circumstance with flight vouchers or greater support, rather than being used to fund the Political events calendar or the unemployed with alcohol and drug money.