A week ago I truly, honestly and madly believed I was back on the straight and narrow with this blogging gig. Seven short days later it seems not. I promised I would return with posts about the interesting places we visited on our three-month road trip. But no, here we are more than a week later…
Nice and flat, easy to level the caravan and the views, well they were incredible and we were the only ones here. It seemed too good to be true. The trip in had been an adventure as we negotiated the muddy track, water across the track in places and rocks and ditches that jostled the…
The internet is amazing, Google Earth incredible but some places you just have to be there yourself to experience the atmosphere and wonder at peoples’ ingenuity. Our visit to Coober Pedy was one of those times we were pleased we brushed aside the uncharitable reports of the town. Driving into the town our first impression…
The shared walk and cycle pathway between Paringa and Renmark meanders beside the Murray River and from where we camped it took us on a wonderful outing on our bicycles.. This was my pick … I wish Paringa, just 4kms from Renmark, was the first town to be connected by rail to Adelaide and the…
It is day 64 of the 92 days of our long service leave, time away from work desk and home. WOW, it seems like we have been away for longer than two months yet it seems like time has flown by. How does that happen. When I discovered dried up ink in the fountain pen…
When the blue cloudless skies and sunshine, of the Northern Territory and northern South Australia, greet you every morning it is difficult to accept the dramatic weather change we are now experiencing. When we stopped at Terowie, South Australia, it was the first night we were not able to have our evening meal outside and…
Okay, maybe not Rocket Town but we did camp north of Woomera at Lake Hart which was one of the testing areas for the Australian and American Joint Defence Facility Nurrungar (JDFN). Nurrungar is an Aboriginal word meaning ‘listen’ and the base’s mission was to provide a reliable satellite-borne surveillance system to detect and report…
