Day 22

Our pre retirement trial trip- day 22
💙3 weeks on the road completed 💙
👻 Happy Halloween 🎃

The aim today was to turn off the alarm ⏰ and wake up whenever. Job done ✔️
But it didn’t quite work out as we’d planned 🙅🏼‍♀️

At 4am the park had a power outage, and we woke to our fridge flashing furiously
Given an overnight low of 24 degrees we got up to turn it onto gas - no luck ❌
So out came the Bluetti to run the van until power was resumed ✔️
Then it was back to bed 🛌

In the morning after a few choice words 🤬, some ‘tapping’ on the solenoid and blowing on the gas jet, it eventually fired into life 🙏🏻

Next on the list was all those jobs that can only be done in ‘suburbia’.
Van latch fixed ✅
Antenna replaced ✅
Grocery shopping ✅
Bottle shop ✅

We know it’s really sad but we were so excited to get fresh salad/veg back into the fridge (that looked like it could last more than a day and didn’t cost the earth). And soooooo looking forward to salad for dinner tonight 🥗

Also we have never bought alcohol in the NT and what an experience that was 😳
Bottle shops are only open in Alice Wednesday-Friday 3-7pm and Saturday 11am-7pm.
They have armed police stationed at the door checking ID and enquiring where you plan to return to
Inside you have your ID scanned and are limited in the volume you can purchase, and are unable to buy from elsewhere on the same day- even if you don’t exceed your quota
We might need to ration ourselves to ensure we have enough to last us to next Wednesday 😜

We’ve added to our memory wall…… this time Katrina, Rod, Danni and Scott. We met them in William Creek and continued to bump into them along the way and almost literally on the kings canyon hike. Perhaps we will next bump into them whilst shopping at home as they are almost neighbours 😳

Ended the day with a spectacular sunset and that longed for salad 😜

Happy Friday 🥂Læs mere