There we are sitting around at home getting ready for the next chemo treatment to be followed by a visit to our oncologist and one of us says "why don't we take a little trip starting after chemo?"  The other one says "maybe". So we have our little visit with Dr Troon after chemo and he says that, seeing that Elaine is tolerating the treatment so well, we will continue on and do 9 weeks treatment straight. We say okay, then decide on the way home to have a 6 day trip. Northwards of course and the target is set as Kalbarri.

So Thursday morning after I get stitches removed by my dermatologist we jump in the van and drive of into the sunset, actually it was a bit late for sunrise and a bit too early for sunset. We intended to spend the night at Eneabba where they allow visitors to park on what was once a football oval for the princely sum of $5 each. On the way we detoured to the Bindoon Bakehaus, as one does, for bread and lunch. They detour was only about 15 km extra but we arrived at Eneabba after travelling about 295 km and were both worn out. Thus Kalbarri was ruled out as too hard.

Today we have travelled about 60 kms, sort of southwards, to the Milligan Island Eco Camp provided by the Shire of Coorow and costing just $15 per night. This is a fairly new site and set up for about 36 units, all in well marked and well seperated bays. When we arrived early afternoon only a couple of people were here, but it is filling rapidly and will no doubt be packed by tomorrow night.

Madam is doing well, she drove a bit yesterday and all the way today. She is still short of energy and it still worries her, but we are assured that it is par for the course with this treatment. I trust that the break will be beneficial to her (and to me).