Woke up to a grey blowy morning, wasn’t part of the plan, handed out the screens for an hour’s more peace in warmth of trailer. Matt puzzled out how to setup the annex with no instructions, am sure those will turn up at some point. I trialed the portable washing machine which will be a great asset until it breaks and leaves us more room inside the car! After some campsite domesticity and lunch on fresh white bread kids bought from servo down road (they know...

Kids couldn’t believe the size of the roos on lawn at farm they had to take photos before we left. That didn’t happen till midday- but still 3 hours better than our efforts on day 1 albeit with rather a large drive ahead! Turned left to Cobar and began our trip in earnest. Both of us never been further west than Cobar towards BHill, couldn’t believe the change in the country, I know it’s dry but started to look like what I’m expecting in Central Aust...

A nice quiet day to regroup after the madness of extracting ourselves from our Sydney lives. Spent some quality time with Grandma and Grandad, while I repacked a lot of stuff I’d just ended throwing in very early on Sun morning! The kids burned around playing ‘fortnite’ - our poor deprived kidlets not allowed to play it 4real on their devices had to actually make up an outside game- although quite violent involving the shotguns from the show it kept them en...

Show Day! Poor Matty headed back to Dubbegas for an 8:30 date with ARB as the cruiser needing finishing touches to be all tarted up for the trip. Rest of us slept in a bit but kids up and annoying Grandad by 7. Dad feeding sheep twice a week atm, it’s so dry and house has run out of water. Big boys headed out for the first round of feeding while mummy got some coffee ready breaking a 2 year caffeine drought- have a feeling I will need coffee on this trip. Spe...

First day on the road... well it was afternoon before we left. Spent night packing up house and stuff ready to leave and we still didn’t leave till 3pm. Slight technical problem with fridges not fitting with the power cords on (mummy fail to tune of $1200