Even further north.

Last night was fillet steak, Victoria Bitter and then double bed - bliss.
This morning up with the lark and on the road by 8am with breakfast at the first rest area, I was travelling up the New England Highway to Toowoomba but I kept seeing familiar town names until we came to the town of Glen Innes which calls itself the centre of Celtic County. The town itself was a delight with well kept Victorian and Edwardian buildings, this was obviously a centre of settlement for Scottish, Welsh and Irish immigrants with towns like Ben Lomond, Llangothlin and Killarney. I stopped over for coffee and it seemed to be well worth further investigation but I am only here for a short while and I am going to see my nephew Paul for the first time tomorrow so no time to linger but if I do ever come back here it will definitely be on the itinerary. I also passed through Deepwater which is having a Country Festival over the weekend so I will be missing that as well and there were heaps of ZZ Topp type racers going the other way as I went further north, I may have to come back after all.
I am now in Queensland where they refuse to go onto Summer Time like the other states, the reason I was given was that they are worried that the milking cows will be confused by the time change and also that with the extra daylight that their curtains will get faded more quickly....... These views were given me by someone from New South Wales so you make up your own mind. However, I did see one sign just after crossing the border which said that a maximum fine of $65,000 would be imposed on anyone found keeping rabbits!!
Tonight I am having another night off from the van and I am staying at the Pure Land Guest House which I think acts as the accommodation for people studying at the Pure Land Learning College, the owners have told me that I can help myself to any of the Buddhist books they have in their library and the smell of joss sticks is drifting past me as I write this on the patio, it takes me back to simpler times of flared trousers and Jimi Hendrix hairstyles, and you didn't think I was old enough to remember that did you?