61 - Goondiwindi Qld

Well here we are, back in the land of a female premier, xxxx beer, the Broncos, Titans & Cowboys and floods. Wecome to SW Queensland.

For our followers of this blog, yes we are doing another gig for a month, at The Jolly Swagman Motel in Goondiwindi, about 4 hours west of Brisvegas.

A bit of useless information, Goondiwdindi is the birth place of the famous race horse Gunsynd. I thought that info would turn you on (he he!!!)

The Jolly Swagman is a huge property, 56 rooms...the biggest we have ever relief managed. However the beauty is, she is fully staffed. the bride and I are managing....not cooking, not cleaning rooms, and not doing everything. We are managing all the necessary things to make sure the wheels continue to turn. A nice refreshing change.

We arrived from Narrabri in quite unpleasant weather. Windy & wet. We then spent about a day and a half changing over with the resident owners. Like all properties, it was a steep learning curve for the first couple of days, and was brain dead for a short while there, but we survived. We now have the operation in control.

The residence is just Ji-normous, which is so comfortable after some of the rabbitt warrens we have had to endure. However I will add our last gig at Dubbo was very comfotable as well.

The Jolly Swagman Motel

At the time of writing this blog, being Sunday 7th March at 2.30pm, the Queensland traffic branch (police) have taken about 20 rooms for about 5 days to conduct road inspections. Drug and alcohol tests on all heavy vehicle drivers, traversing the Newell Highway. which is the main route from Brisbane to Melbourne.

I have never seen so many pretty police highway patrol cars, bikes and unmarked "hoons cars" ever. I offered them the Val for their unmarked patrol purposes, but was politely declined. "How Rude." The Val was the choice of patrol cars back in 1978........a'h I forgot it is now 2010...bloody hell, we have those last 30 years gone!!!!!!!

Being a seventies tragic, I am still in that time warp, just won't go away.

Are there any patrol cars left in Brisvegas?

The ute in the back ground is one of the under cover jobbies

Drug test unit with a bike thrown in. Four bikes are here as well.

That's all for now. Stay toooooooned. You never know, there may be more exciting things happen in the next month at the thriving metropolis of Goondiwindi!

CYA