The Epic Quilty Adventure 2016.

Despite planning it for a very long time I was not happy with the way the weather Gods dealt their hand south of the border. As a Victorian in a past life & having lived quite some time in central and southern NSW I understood the magnitude of the whole bit wet. There was a chance we would never even get there and it could be the most miserable experience EVER.... In fact, I cancelled the whole she-bang at least once, maybe twice.... The horses weren’t co-operating either. I was already up to the substitute in Jolie after Lil Bo pulled a muscle at State Champs. Then Bart had the most amazing blood let from a hind toe while being shod in preparation to go….. It wasn’t going well…..

Then Carla ate her travel pack in tears. And Sonya said to me "I'm still going....I have to go. Louis has had it on the white board TQ 2016 all year. It's his dream! We drove to Bowen to qualify him. We've got to try. I can't destroy his dream! Even if we get half way there and have to turn back." I took stock. I realised it wasn’t all about me. And if we didn't go there was just too much unfinished business.....AND I couldn't let Sonya go by herself. We rejigged the whole plan to make it work. Given the conditions we couldn't take the two vehicles planned. We crammed everything into the one and rationalised heavily.... It was scary frightening how much we got into the one. We rode the ponies for one last time to make sure we weren’t three legged…. And off we went to the Victorian Quilty on the coat tails of Louis Ryan’s Quilty dream….. To hell with rational thought!