Off we go again!

Day 1

Well here we are off on another outback adventure! I truly wasn’t in the mindset to do this trip but now I am in the wilderness so can see the positives!

Sadly the Van Iattie’s can come which does make my heart feel sad! Their big 4x4 truck broke down over a week ago in Mt Isa snd it’s been shipped to Townsville! Need today when I checked was it’s Gear Box is stuffed they will send a new one from Japan who knows when! So that’s it no Dave and Sheryl to give us good company, a laugh and directions as Sheryl does the best side track planning!
So it’s just Bill Storer and Us that’ll be fun for me 2 guys!

We left at 10 am after a few shotgun starts! We forgot a couple of things then decided to make our own coffee then there was another thing we dashed back for luckily we didn’t set off just kept starting the car then realizing more things each time! 🤔🤔🤔😫😫

Of we set made it to Moura as I forgot to buy John sone bread! Had a Quick Look at the Memorial Park walk to the fallen mine works over a 63 yr period! So many lives lost through mine accidents or underground mines blowing up.
Off we set was about 30k outside Moura when I was sure I saw Axel my nieces husband fixing s truck n the side of the Hwy! Was hoping it wasn’t his truck after all his issues snd having to buy another new truck! John was driving so fast we couldn’t have stopped even if had wanted to!

Next stop was Rolleston such a bad road heading to there! Black soil has made the road so uneven! Had lunch at the pub as it’s the state of origin tonight they were getting the pub ready for a big night! Had a chat to the girl who looked like she was the manager! A couple from either Belgium or Germany were the bar staff d and chef!!!!

Then off to Springsure to buy a new car USB adapter charger as ours was playing up! So off to Mitre 10 he went! I headed up the street to Decadance a gift shop owned but Axel’s mother Louisa Opperman!

As I approached the shop an older lady was sitting in the sun out front having her soup! Turns out she is Axel’s grandmother who helps look after the shop! I went into this treasure trove of so much stuff I didn’t know where to look! Had a chat yo Axels gran and it turns out it was Axe and his father trying to fix up Stephens hired broken truck! 🛻 he had hired this one because his had broken down now this one was cactus as well! Axe s as md apparently his brother by phone were trying to fix the issue!
I bought some lovely smelly hand cream…. Winter kills my hands so nothing like good quality hand cream to stop them cracking! Gran also gave me a little gift of another small tube of hand cream to help the issue! So lovely of her!

We set off towards Tambo making it to the camp site Stove Waterhole! Just off the Hwy we can still see cars snd trucks going by! The waterhole had a little amount in it! Thrr e’d ground above it is flat and even a good camp spot!

We set up our camper first, then our Starlink for the first time out bush! Set up a campfire 🔥! Called Dad on FB messages no phone reception out here! I had pre prepared some meals before we set off! Tonight we had pea and ham soup as it’s very cool and windy! The soup around the fire 🔥 did the trick! Finding things we forgot to put in so it’s improvise as best as you can! Being off grid for s as big part of this trip will be the way it’s planned! See how we go! U think off to bed early tonight!Leia mais