Day 1: Wed 30 Oct - Home to Brisbane
16-26 degC We were up at 5am just because we were awake. By 7:30am all our pre-departure jobs had been completed and we were ready to leave. However we but had arranged an ETD of 10am with the others and didn’t want to muck them around so we just sat down and relaxed. But Glen and Carmel were also running ahead of schedule and arrived just after 9am. When Wendy looked at Google Maps, she saw that Sue, Mark and Gunther were already on the road. So, we did a quick change of clothes, did a final pack and were on the road before 9:30am. Our first drive on the new Gympie bypass and it was great; pity about other bits of the highway that are not so good, and they’ve now reduced the speed to 80 on a section that was previously 100. Not sure why. Eventually it will all be 110, but maybe not in our lifetime. We stopped at Glass House Mountain rest stop for lunch about midday. We arrived at our accommodation for the night, Airway Motel, about 1:15pm and reception was closed - ch...