Four days on the road and now a rest

We finally started our long awaited long service leave road trip on 31st May 2011, we left Melbourne around 11.15am and proceeded to drive out of the city.  A forced stop on the Monash freeway had Fred questioning if the electric brakes on the caravan were in fact working.  He kept asking this question over the next couple of days.  Our first stop for the night was Horsham Victoria.  It’s a caravan park we have stayed at before next to the Horsham Botanical Gardens and on the Wimmera River.  The temperature got down to zero overnight and we were very grateful to our new caravans heating.  We left around ten the next morning and headed toward Murray Bridge SA where we stopped for the night.  Along the way we lost the arm of the extension mirror and drove over it.  Fred walked back to get it and a semi trailer also ran over it so it wasn’t much good when he finally got it back to the car.  Some gaffa tape later and we were off.  We stayed at the Long Island Caravan Park at Murray Bridge SA which was a little way out of town but nice and quiet.  I’m sure in the summer months it would get very busy as it was right on the Murray River.  Our next destination was Burra SA.  We had planned to stay two days here to look around the town.  Burra is a living heritage town, its full of old miners cottages and shops some over 200 years old.  There is lots to see and we have enjoyed not sitting in the car.  The caravan park is very small but lovely and clean and a 2 minute walk to town.  We had tea in an old pub last night with a big open fire.  As we are in the Clare Valley area, they also had some delicious wines on offer.  We visited the town of Clare today and had lunch and now we are about to explore some antique shops in Burra North.  Tomorrow we head off to the Flinders Ranges to spend 3 nights, do some bushwalking and visit the surrounding area before heading to Broken Hill.  The weather so far has been fantastic but I have a feeling rain is on the way
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Back to the electric brakes, Fred asked another camper in Burra about the electric brakes which sent him on a journey to find an auto electrician, he finally got hold of a gentleman who was already in the caravan park working on someone else's caravan.  To cut the story short, when we had the caravan hotwired by an auto electrican the day before we left he unplugged the electric brake connector and didn't connect it back again, so we did over 950 kms with no brake lights or no caravan brakes!!!!!!