{"id":12718,"date":"2026-02-15T07:46:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T20:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/?p=12718"},"modified":"2026-02-15T07:46:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T20:46:57","slug":"quick-trip-to-dubbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/?p=12718","title":{"rendered":"Quick trip to Dubbo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Doc will head off to Melbourne in early March for work on the car and van. He had a quick trip to Dubbo over the last couple of days to help prep the van.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some exploring was done on the way back visiting places like Kandos and Rylstone near Wollemi National Park. Plus using the back roads from Ilford down to the Great Western Highway east of Bathurst, dropping into places like Ilford, Wattle Flats, Sofala and Yarras.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is still work to do to get the van ready, as the Melbourne trip is vital prep for the Kimberley trip \u2013 hopefully later this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"604\" height=\"374\" data-attachment-id=\"12719\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=12719\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-15-07.33.36-scaled.png?fit=2560%2C1584\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1584\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Screenshot 2026-02-15 07.33.36\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-15-07.33.36-scaled.png?fit=604%2C374\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-15-07.33.36-1024x634.png?resize=604%2C374&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12719\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-15-07.33.36-scaled.png?resize=1024%2C634 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-15-07.33.36-scaled.png?resize=300%2C186 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-15-07.33.36-scaled.png?resize=768%2C475 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-15-07.33.36-scaled.png?resize=1536%2C950 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-15-07.33.36-scaled.png?resize=2048%2C1267 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-15-07.33.36-scaled.png?w=1208 1208w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-15-07.33.36-scaled.png?w=1812 1812w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Doc will head off to Melbourne in early March for work on the car and van. He had a quick trip to Dubbo over the last couple of days to help prep the van. Some exploring was done on the way back visiting places like Kandos and Rylstone near Wollemi National Park. Plus using &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/?p=12718\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Quick trip to Dubbo<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4x4"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42vG0-3j8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12720,"href":"http:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12718\/revisions\/12720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}