We left Alice Springs on Wednesday after waking to another very cold morning. We were only travelling a couple of hundred kilometers so there was no rush. It was the start of a long and dusty drive up the Tanimi Track, which is 1000kms and most of it is dirt. We started at the right end because the road on the first day was tarred for the first 200 kilometers but after our first night at the Tilmouth Well Roadhouse we struck dirt. Most of the road was in rea...

We arrived in Alice Springs on Friday afternoon and stocked up on a few provisions. On Saturday morning we set off early for Windscreens O'Brien to replace the front windscreen, which had been cracked just out of Dubbo and the crack was slowly growing longer. Thank goodness Steve had taken out insurance! We also tried to get someone to fix a Trail a mate jockey wheel but this is still a continuing project. (to those of you familiar with Sinclair Snippets we ...

I am still having problems working out the mechanics of trying to download our photos and it is taking time and patience. Also Steve has suggested I should have my own i pad so he can use his when we do get service. We left Broken Hill and set off for The Flinders Ranges. Before coming into Broken Hill we were told to dump any fruit we'd had then stocked up again in town (because it was our last big centre before we went into the Ranges) we then came to anothe...

We awoke this morning after a disturbed night caused by noise from the local's celebrations that seemed to go on all night and occasionally be accompanied by a dog fight somewhere. We started to pack up but got waylaid by a lovely family that we met on our first day on the Tanami and had also caught up with at Sturt Creek when we stayed overnight. They are traveling a similar route to us and have 3 children, one 5 year old and twins that are 18 months old. Once...

We set off on Wednesday morning only 2 hours late! Travelled 1 kilometer then had to stop,we had some straps from the roof rack hitting the roof and we would have been driven mad if we didn't tie them up. It was full steam ahead to Dubbo then and we arrived just after dark, set up and then watched State of Origin-the last one for us this year! We woke on Thursday to a sunny early morning and just as we were about to pack up the heavens opened! Everything includ...