Road Trip - Day 1 - Driving to Coffs

I was surprised to see how nice the scenery was just outside of Boonah on our road through Running Creek and Cougal - something I didn't even know existed which is practically in my backyard at Brisbane!But after driving on through to Coffs we had to make a stop at the bike shop to get the first repairs underway - needing to put on my new Motoz intermediate tyre for the trip but as usual, doing it by hand I pinched the tube and we had the bike shop do it with a machine. So much easier! Jake Bowen then met with us at the bike shop and asked us to follow him up to his new compound which, as he grossly under-exaggerated, was just 'Up the Hill'.Well, the hill went for about 45 minutes and basically going up a range out the back of Coffs Harbour on our way to Ulong. The rain was getting heavier, the lightning was cracking and we knew it was going to be a very ordinary start to our camping trip. Sleeping in the mud.Butluckily at the new compound, Jake's uncle is building a new house, so we decided to go 'Glamping' and pitched our swags under the roof of the new house on the cement pad, set up the cooking and ended up watching movies on the Laptop!It's now 10am, the sun is out but the ground is still wet,and Bowen should be back up here shortly and we'll try ride something. Fingers crossed the mud dries up a little and we can hit some of his new natural terrain jumps!