Caravan Of Courage Road Trip

It's deadline at Horse Deals and whilst most of us are slaving away to meet the print deadline 3 of our team members are hundreds of kilometres from Horse Deals, half way through the 'Hamish & Andy Caravan of Courage Road Trip'. Today Kirsty, Jaime and Trish touched based with the 'hard working ones' at Horse Deals to bring us up to speed on their current adventure.......

"Today we have just arrived at Bulahdelah about 50kms out of Taree. We were unsure just how big the town would be as when I went to book our camping site at the caravan park I was told by the owner operator 'yep you can have a spot just out in the paddock'. With heavy rain, storms and hail the 3 of us were a bit concerned our tent would be washed away 'out in the paddock' so we have decided to stay in style at the local motel. At the moment there are about 20 people on the 'Caravan of Courage' road trip, everyone is joining in and we are having an absolute blast.

On Wednesday we were to organise a bull ride for Andy, so Trish contacted rodeo stock contractor John Gill to see if he had a young steer we could use, Andy had psyched himself up and was ready but the only bulls were the experienced rodeo bulls and John said "if he wants to end up in hospital for the next 2 days he is welcome to try". So with a psyched up Andy, sanity prevailed and we put the bull ride on hold – well for now anyway!

So far we have travelled over 1,600kms, taking in the sights like the Ettamogah Pub (had one or two refreshment there), The Big Ram and the Dog on The Tucker Box, we aim to be in Brisbane on Sunday for Rove Live – we will call again next week and yes we promise we will be home in time to send the magazine to the printers on Wednesday."

Cheers from Jaime, Kirsty & Trish