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It’s All A Learning Curve

Even the things I screw up

Colleen Millsteed
6 min readJan 21, 2025
A map of travel.
Photo courtesy of the Author : My trip to date

It’s almost a month since I updated you all on my gypsy wanderings, so here I am to do so.

Anyone following my travels will remember that when I last wrote, I was camped at Helidon Spa, at the bottom of the Toowoomba Range.

Photo courtesy of the Author : Helidon Spa at the bottom of the Toowoomba Range

I ended up staying there for three weeks to heal my torn chest muscle, the one I’d torn for the second time in a month. I needed to let it heal and not continually aggravate the injury. Those three weeks at Helidon Spa did the trick.

I was a little lost in which direction to go next because it was a little tricky finding a vacancy, what with Christmas / New Year and school holidays. Plenty of places to stay if I wanted to tow my caravan up the Toowoomba Range, but I wasn’t even going to attempt that. I firmly believed I wasn’t capable of such a trek, as that range is an eye opener, let me tell you. It would be terrifying to say the least.

So, I backtracked a little and ended up at the Laidley Showgrounds for a week. A great little camping spot with an awesome caretaker, who imparted some wise words on travelling, caravan maintenance and our beautiful country. A…

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Colleen Millsteed
Colleen Millsteed

Written by Colleen Millsteed

Top Writer in Poetry. I’m a Finance Manager with a love of both numbers and words.

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