An ignominious return to Canberra

Sadly, Winnie let us down badly on the very last day of our winter sojourn.  Just as we passed Gosford on the hilly up and down road the gears started acting up and it seemed we had lost 6th gear. As we progressed through Sydney it seemed that 2nd and 4th were also noisy and we consulted transmission specialists by phone. Andrew was hoping that the remaining three gears, 1, 3 and 5 would allow us to get home but alas, just at the Campbelltown turn-off, 5th gear also gave up the ghost and we were stuck.

We had to be transported all the way to Canberra.

Had we not been facing departure overseas for two months in five days time, we would have had the insurance people get us to a repair service centre in Sydney somewhere. With the car they would have provided we would have driven on to our home destination in Canberra and returned to Sydney to pick up the truck when it was ready.  As it was, we had many things with us that we needed to take overseas, so we decided it was more convenient (although much more expensive) to be towed all the way home.  On the next available working day we will once again have Winnie freighted to a transmission repair shop locally and repaired while we fly off to Scandinavia.