Day 21

Our pre retirement trial trip- day 21
470 km Petermann to Alice Springs NT

The aim today was to get our furthest point north on this part of the trip. Job done ✔️

Woke to a beautiful sunrise with Miss Tilly in our thoughts 🤍🐶🤍 (4 years 🌈)

We had the option to take a short cut down dirt and dusty roads today, but due to the heat we made the decision to stick to the black top

We noticed the distance markers here are not to the next town (as it’s too far away) but to the next road or junction.

Our journey took us past changing landscapes and over dry sandy creek and river beds, including the Finke and Todd Rivers, with stops at roadhouses to break up the road trip.
Our first stop was the Mt Ebenzer Roadhouse, which has unfortunately lied derelict for some time. We spoke with a local Clint who, with his uncle, are trying to rebuild the place - they will need a lot of time and patience 😳

Next stop Erldunda Roadhouse at the Centre of the Centre

And lastly the Stuarts Well Roadhouse, where we had a hump 🐪and jump 🦘burger for lunch.

We made it to Alice Springs at a scorching 43 degrees, and was very very grateful for the aircon ❄️

We are both tired bunnies so popped across to the brewery for a pizza then an early night.
And NO alarm tomorrow 🔕

Home for the night is the Discovery Resort-Alice Springs
$34.50pn (current deal) for power and water, shower, toilets, laundry, dump point, pool ……..Læs mere