Our Road trip

I decided to start a new thread about our recent road trip. As mentioned in the other "tornado" thread, my wife Janet and I took a trip to the western wheat growing country.  It started out that I was going to do the camping trip on my own after I dropped Janet off for a 9 day bike riding tour and pick her up at the finish, but due to Covid the tour was cancelled for the second year running and we decided to do the camping trip together anyway.
Apart from the art silos shown in the other thread, I really wanted to visit one particular museum in a small town called Rupanyup.  There are hardly any businesses left in the town.  Just a tumbledown supermarket, bank, a rural hardware/produce store and a John Deere dealership.  No cafe and no pub (hotel bar).  Pretty unusual for any Aussie town to not have a pub, but Covid has finished them all off after hard times due to many years of drought.  The museum was an initiative of two retired farming brothers and the guy who owns the produce store, who is a real go-getter and has initiated a number of projects to improve the town.  The brothers aparently never threw anything away.  I could go on forever, but the real highlight for me (apart from 300 tractors) was the recreation of the brothers' mother's and their grandmother's original houses, which they dismantled and stored many tears ago.  The houses have been rebuilt inside a huge shed using all the original furniture, fixtures, carpet etc.  The walls are adorned with family photos just like the the houses were originally.  I'll post a couple of pictures at a time to gove some kind of impression what this place is like.







Sorry, nothing to do with Cox or aeroplanes.  The museum did have one R/C model hanging from the ceiling.  Wasn't particularly old or interesting.  Probably about a 40 size, maybe an O.S.  Couldn't tell.

Rod.