The Road Trip Begins; leaving home comforts!

 

We're On the Road to Nowhere

 

 

Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th July

 

After an early start and 101 last minute things to do we set off from home at 5.30am aiming to reach Newman ! The kms seemed to crawl by as we didn’t go above 100kmph but it was steady progress. The last 2 hours of driving were the most  tedious as Simon kept saying ‘We’ll drive till 7pm' then as we got to 7pm he'd suddenly say 'Lets just push on through till 8pm!' We finally pulled over and tucked ourselves away on a dirt track at 8.30, fed everyone, made a fire and snugged down for a cold night. We were approx 50km from Newman!


Playing HeadBandz...what am I?

Sleeping in till 6am was a luxury we couldn’t really afford the next morning, but we thought we’d do a speedy pack-up and be off within half an hour…little did we anticipate the impossible puzzle that would present in re-packing the trailer! We pulled away nearly 2 hours later and steam coming from Simon’s ears!!

 

Five films, 8 hours of talking books and several games of headbands later we arrived at Broome and pulled into the Gateway Caravan Park! Camp was set-up in a record time of 10 minutes and everyone was fed and abed within the hour!

 

Sandfire Road House...only 4 hours to go!

Last stop for fuel before Broome