We're still talking to each other!

Having talked to someone before we left who said he and his wife would last about one day travelling together, I think we're doing quite well :)

I got up early to walk a little way out of Tibooburra to get this photo at sunrise. There are piles of granite around the township and this stone was balanced on just three points

Don't quite know whether Bun wanted to fly off the edge here! I think he's planning on only having photos of the back of him appear on the blog :)

This was one of the 'much better' dirt roads that we've been on!  There had been rain in the general area in the last couple of weeks and so some of the roads were pretty bad.  There were times that we went back to about 25-30kms per hour because of ruts and corrugations.  There is also some pretty lucky wildlife out there too because we missed an emu by a tail feather and a little goat put the brakes on very quickly and just missed the side of the truck.

We went from Tibooburra to Wanaaring to Bourke to Louth to Cobar to Broken Hill and we are now in Mildura again.  We would have liked to go to Ivanhoe or White Cliffs or Tilpa but roads have been closed and we figured we had given the caravan a bit of a workout already.  It doesn't look so clean anymore :)

We will stay in Mildura until Tuesday when the truck has it's first service then we will head home.

Saw this sign in the pub at Pooncarie and thought it was a good one for the blog!

And we're off!!

We left home on Tuesday and went through Mildura and part way towards Broken Hill and spent the night beside the Anabranch Bridge.  It only took Bun about an hour or so to find a dog to cuddle :).  I did some driving during the day and apparently it only took an hour or so for me to scare him!
I continued driving the next day and was passed by a semi for the first time without incident.
We decided that we could take things pretty easy as this is really only to get used to driving, towing, etc, so we stayed in Broken Hill for the night.  We are so going to turn into grey nomads, pulling in for the night at about 3pm haha.

So it sounds like 4pm is happy hour for grey nomads??

Thursday we headed towards Tibooburra, calling into Packsaddle Roadhouse about 1.30pm.  After a leisurely beer turned into a couple more, we decided to stay there for the night.  The company both sides of the bar was great and the hot chips for tea were the best we've had!  Friday morning we headed to Tibooburra with a stop to climb up a mountain (well, large hill?)

Our truck and van are actually in the second photo too so we were pretty high up! Think we scared away the goats as we climbed up.

Today (Saturday) we took a drive out to Camerons Corner where the 3 state borders meet.  Bun enjoyed a beer at the Roadhouse/Pub.

We've decided to stay on tomorrow night as well and do a couple of drives through the National Parks before heading off on Monday, probably towards Wanaaring because Bun's heard about some guys catching Yellow Bellys there.

Wish the Drive-in still worked! Bun looked a little lonely :))

Catch you all later

I attended a great class on Sunday in Adelaide on bag making and picked up so many helpful little tips! Nicole said we want our bags to be handmade rather than look homemade. So good to spend a day doing stuff with others who 'get it'!

I was pretty happy with the result, looks quite professional I thought.

In other news, the storage boxes for the truck were picked up last Friday and then on Wed/Thurs we had a UHF installed.  Water tanks are filled and the fridge is on!

We plan to head off on Tuesday for a couple of weeks, still unsure of a direction as we'll wait and see what the weather/rain does.

Brrrr!

Sometimes it's so cold outside that you start work a little later than normal :)