Brisbane

From everything that people have told me, I wasn't expecting much. But that's the thing with low expectations, usually a place will exceed them and this was no exception. Brisbane was a hip, bussling metropolis.
Its a river town with many cool bridges crossing the ferry laden river. We camped the Fuzy in a caravan park for just $33 a night. After spending $75 in gas for the day, I'm not sure this is the inexpensive way to travel. Fuzy need some new brakes and some bushing for the steering/ suspension, so she went to the hospital. I'm not kidding the name for the place was the Auto hospital. We hopped on a local bus and explored the city. Brian had been to Brisbane before, but seeing it now it was a totally different city. After a fun walk and a $7 slice of pizza we headed back to our home on 4 wheels. The boys were behind schedule due to parts arriving late and were in a complete wrench tossing furry that took until 6:30 pm on Friday night. Later,with the van nestled into a tree covered site, I cooked up a great meal on our camp stove and enjoyed some of our Aussie wine with Brian. Looking up we could see that the fruit bats or flying foxes were having a grand time eating the berries in our over head tree. They got hammered and started screeching at each other until the wee hours of the night. A dawn the bats were replaced by Parrots and they were more belligerent than you could imagine.