Broken Hill - 2 weeks on the road. We decided to stay 2 nights in Broken Hill, because of our Willcania fly through and because there is heaps to see here! It's hard to believe this time 2 weeks ago we were getting on the boat to start our journey. We have seen and done so much, and there is still a lot more time to go! When we first arrived in Broken Hill, we drove around and had a look through town, got some petrol (it appears as though our engine trouble with...

Mt Hope & Cobar We set off from Gum Bend Lake early in the morning and went back into Condobolin to ask at the visitor information centre about the condition of roads and how to get through to Mt Hope, because there has been a lot of rain recently. The ladies there couldn't help much but one of them did say that she usually drives a road from Condo' to Kiacatoo and if it was going to be flooded anywhere, we would know sooner rather than later. So we headed o...

This morning we first stopped at Peak Hill for the Open Cut Experience which is a self-guided walk of old gold workings and 5 open cut mines. The open cut pits were pretty big but we were impressed most by walking over the old mine shafts. It was eerie to hear the wind coming up through them. We stopped in the town of Peak Hill to post some postcards but Kent ended up talking to a local retired school teacher for ages and I had fun looking through the antique and...

We met some lovely people at our camp spot near Dubbo. Laurie and Helen from Queensland have been on the road quite a bit, criss-crossing the country. So they had some good traveling advice and some good stories to tell Kent around the campfire (I was trying to get Callen off to sleep, unsuccessfully!). But it was nice to actually talk to someone at our rest stop, rather than just nod and wave in the morning...the first time it has happened since we left home! Af...

Tamworth to Dubbo First stop in Tamworth this morning was the visitor information centre which also houses the Walk a Country Mile Museum - this was pretty interesting as it outlines the growth of Australia's country music and had some really cool memorabilia. Then we went to The Big Golden Guitar - the icon of Tamworth! We also went into the Gallery of Stars Wax Museum there and had our picture taken with some of the stars. Some of them were so lifelike! Then w...