Backtracking a little

Going to try to back track and recapture some of the moments that are already slipping away from my memory, but will have to add photos later. For time being, imagine you are looking at a series of photos of us at Port Pirie, South Austalia. Our first stop a little further up the track. The girls got really excited because they thought we had come to a really truly beach where they could swim. But given the time pressures, they were pleased enough with the chance to wade a little, write Bethany Hamilton's name in the sand, and share cream honey stick and chocolate cake sitting in the sun beside Pauline's mobile cafe: a cup of tea is an adventure in itself when you can pull up anywhere at all and pop the kettle on.

Our time in Adelaide had been extended even further than we had bargained for, though the vehicle upgrades and improvements and safety measures had taken all of the 10 days we had figured they would. We had translated the workshops' estimate of "a good week" into 10 days and had been spot on for that, but we hadnt counted on a slight shift to the goal posts with South Australia's vehicle registration system.

They hadn't got around to updating their website with the news that a caravan from interstate NOW had to be inspected before it could be registered, so Pauline and Georgina's mad dash to regency park on Monday night was all for naught.  I couldn't say I was deeply disappointed to be spending another night in Georgina's  warm and stationary house. And the Physio who had kindly treated me earlier that afternoon that day never got to find out, but he would have been pleased to know that I was not taking the muscle spasms in my neck out driving into the storm that night.

It felt much better to be hitting the road in the broad daylight the next morning. Divine intervention in the form of a wonky caravan cable, followed by a buggered starter motor, kept us off the roads in the dark the next night as well, so Port Augusta's motor home park was our first night's stop, and Zoe and I set up for our first breakfast of the trip in the workshop of the local AutoElectrician! $250 for a starter motor reconditioning and we were ready to roll again. More soon!