We are getting closer I can just see the Sunshine Coast over the horizon. We finally see family! We are staying at Banora Point (near Tweed Heads) with the Dowlings (Belinda's sister's family). Belinda's other sister (the Browns) drove down from Brisbane to have a Freeman Christmas. We had Christmas Day festivities at Fingal Head. Lovely place, lovely food, lovely company. Had my usual Christmas Day nap (funny how the body can adjust so many days after the real deal) under the tree. It does feel weird because now the realisation is setting in that we are nearly at our new home. 298km today, but the Pacific Highway was full of holiday travellers, road works and soon to be bypass roads. After nearly 4500km, numerous speed cameras, red light cameras, radars and highway patrol cars, careful monitoring of speed and noticing roadwork and speed signs, I got pulled over for "speeding". In the NT we don't muck around when there is injustice. I was clocked at 99km in an 80 AHEAD zone, not an 80 zone. I politely told the officer this and we had a standoff. He took my licence, checked the car and went back to his vehicle. 5 minutes later he comes back and hands back my licence and says "Here is your licence sir, I just need to check your story." He walks back to the car and speeds off. What are we to do? He didn't say to stay, but he didn't say we could go. No ticket either. After 15 minutes by the side of the road we decide to leave the scene and retrace our steps for 10 minutes, taking photos of the signs just in case we did the wrong thing. Funnily enough, Homer Simpson directed us to take a turnoff 25km before Grafton. I guess if we were in trouble, we lost him as we were taken on a lovely country road, saving us 50km and time by not going through Grafton.
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