Roadtrip over. Home OMG.

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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