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After a fantastic three days of WGS gaming over the Australia Day long weekend Tuesday morning 29 January 2013 saw me back on the road early. I was intending to drive the 1260km from Canberra to my home in Brisbane in one day - and I almost made it too!

On the way however I stopped to visit the scene of a terrible wartime tragedy which occurred on 5 August 1944 at the little NSW country town of Cowra.



Located 170 kilometres ...

As I made good time on Day 1 of the Brisbane to Canberra trip I had time for a detour to the small town of Temora on Day 2. Temora is the home of the Temora Aviation Museum, home to the No. 10 Elementary Flying Training School (10 EFTS) set up by the RAAF in May 1941 under the Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS) during the Second World War. Their website is here: http://www.aviationmuseum.com.au/




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I left Brisbane at 1000hrs and made good time, doing the 950 kilometres to the central NSW city of Dubbo in just over 12 hours.

I took a few photos on the first leg of my trip through the rural plains of central NSW:


Cows enjoying the shade of a street sign outside Warwick


Grey skies on the road to Goondiwindi - an ominous portent of the weather related obstacles I would strike ...

I have just returned to my home-town of Brisbane after spending a week travelling to and from Australia's premier wargaming convention 'Cancon'. As the name suggests Cancon is held in our nation's capital Canberra each year on the Australia Day weekend, 26-28 January this year. During this trip I took a large number of photographs, on the road as well as at the convention. Through this blog I will share my Cancon experience with the group.

My Cancon journey actually started in ...