Roadtrip over. Home OMG.

[samvara]

Day 1: Perth to Balladonia (947km)

• 6:20am - Leave transcendancing’s house with fully laden car (Tetris achievement unlocked!)
• Meckering, buy petrol
• Southern Cross, buy petrol
• 12:30pm – Lunch at Coolgardie (decide to skip the Kargoorlie pit detour)
• Coolgardie, buy petrol
• Norseman (lakes were most lovey) buy postcards
• 5:15pm – Arrive Balladonia, buy petrol, eat food, write postcards, shower, sleep

Day 2: Balladonia to Ceduna (983km)

• 6:30 am – Leave Balladonia
• See eagles feasting on dead roo, take photographs of eagles, but not roo.
• transcendancing pulled over for speeding by very, very nice police. Woe
• Cocklebiddy, buy petrol, take photos, buy stuffed squid, name squid ‘Cockle’
• Wave at Madura, think about tea, identify transcendancing is ill
• Mundrabilla, buy petrol
• Wave at Eucla, drive up non-flat bit to great excitement
• Cross Western Australia – South Australia Border (wave)
• Stop at Great Australian Bight to stare, take photos
• Nullabor Roadhouse – definitely not Narnia
• 8:15pm Arrive Ceduna, order food, eat, walk, bathe, sleep

Day 3: Ceduna to Adelaide (634 km)

6:30am – Leave Ceduna, admire sunrise

• Poochera, buy petrol, take photo of dinosaur ant, chat to lovely store owner, do not make ‘screwed the poochera’ jokes *gives prk a filthy look*
• Wudinna, buy petrol
• 11:00 am Cowell, admire ‘crap’ art show in public toilets, no seriously, art show
• 12:00 pm Ferry from Luck Bay to Wallaroo (2 hours not driving was good)
• 2:00 pm – Wallaroo, locate hospital, medicate transcendancing’s throat infection
• Arrive Adelaide, arrive Juliette and Damian's, soak up warm hospitality and peach cobbler, discuss pterodactyls

Day 4: Adelaide to Melbourne (728km)

• 6:30am – Leave Adelaide and drive up into hills (sunrise thankfully blocked by hills)
• Murray Bridge, buy petrol
• Kaniva, sleep in Windmill café for 30 mins - v. good idea (staff were fabulous)
• Wave at Stawell, discover it is pronounced ‘stall’
• Ararat, buy petrol
• 4:30pm - Arrive Melbourne, cuddle littleboot
• Union Hotel, Brunswick, eat food, cuddle littleboot

Day 5: Melbourne to Perth

• Sleep in, drink tea, cuddle littleboot
• Arrive at cafe, hug hope, skud, japester and littleboot (just in case), eat all the food
• Drive to airport, fly home, cuddle everyone, laundry, food, shower, sleep

Comments

[ironed_orchid]

discuss pterodactyls

Of course you do :-)

[samvara]

it's an important topic :)

[sarren]

Awesome adventure! Hope transcendancing's throat infection cleared up quickly.

[samvara]

She was gradually improving after we got antibiotics in Wallaroo.

They were amazing, we sort of staggered in out of nowhere on the Australia Day public holiday and they gave her enough antibiotics to get her through to an open pharmacy then let us back out into the wild.

[sarren]

Did you have to wait long?

[samvara]

Nopes, there was a pregnant couple and some other people but it was pretty quiet.

[transcendancing]

I am now feeling quite well but have several days of 4x antibiotics a day. Throat infection was really quite nasty :c I was probably near delirious at poor samvara by the time we got to the ferry. Out in the desert there are few pharmacological options, so I was medicating with salt water and listerine gargles and panadol in the hopes of keeping it at bay. Did so for the desert leg but was starting to lose that battle by the middle of the day after leaving Ceduna. Very grateful that the hospital at Wallaroo was so awesome, and free!! And we waited an hour all up? On a public holiday! As transients! They were boggled, but very kind :)

[transcendancing]

If I could replicate one skill of yours consistently it would be your amazing ability to summarise so cleanly whilst retaining the amazingness of things. I love you so much, thank you so much for helping me do this thing and being there for me and and and and... *the list is infinite*

<3 <3 <3

[samvara]

*hug*

[zebra363.livejournal.com]

That is some serious driving on the first two days especially!

[samvara]

It sure was, good company makes a big difference though :)