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| Chinchilla to Roma |
I set out early on Sunday morning to head to Roma on the first leg of my road trip to central Queensland, which will include the Succession Roadshow with RCS, Entello Group Investments and Buckley Family Lawyers. The most nerve-wracking part of the five hour-plus drive was navigating my 200m driveway after the four inches of rain that plummeted down in an hour on Friday night. The roads were mostly in good shape, other than the 60km zone from Brigalow to Chinchilla for the roadworks to upgrade Warrego Highway. I had no issue with the 60km speed limit, but obviously the truck driver behind me who tailgated me the entire way into town was feeling some level of frustration with the roadworks.
It's been a few years since I have taken the trip
between Chinchilla and Roma, and it was an absolute pleasure to see how well
the land is doing in that area at the moment compared to my last trip out that
way. My last trip was during a drought
period and most of that section of the highway resembled an arid dustbowl. It was fantastic to see such a good covering
of feed for the majority of that section of Queensland. Many properties further west have not had the
level of rainfall experienced in that area and are obviously still doing it
tougher, but it is still nice to see an improvement in this section compared to
my last trip.
After a very successful succession planning meeting
with clients in Roma, where "communication is the key" was clearly
evident, I'm looking forward to getting out bright and early Monday morning to
head further north and visit clients in Clermont for a tour of their very
successful cattle business, before the first of the succession seminars in
Emerald on Tuesday.
More to come tomorrow after the next leg of the
trip.
