Barossa Valley, Blue Mountains, and Sydney

After Kangaroo Island we spent a day in the beautiful Barossa Valley doing a bit of wine tasting and, wound up with a couple of bottles, hee hee. The Shiraz was especially good. Next was our long haul back through the OUTBACK and to the Blue Mountains. We camped there for two nights - staying in a canyon valley the first night and then just outside of Katoomba the second. The Blue Mountains reminded us of the Grand Canyon with trees. We spent the last night with some rowdy campers who were on the first night of their Austalian trip and we were glad to stoke them out with our music adaptor and road atlas. (Music and maps - some road trip essentials!)

We returned the camper van and headed back to Glebe to spend the night going out with some great girls we'd met on our first round through Sydney. Rowena, our gracious host, took us to a club in Oxford with fantastic music. Needless to say, with little sleep we dragged ourselves out the next day to the Glebe market and for a ferry ride to Manly beach (despite some rain). I crafted up some balloon hats for us, taught Rachelle and Rowena how to make a balloon dog, and we called it a night for our early flight in the morning.

How odd it was to not be sleeping and existing in our campervan - we'd spent almost the last four weeks sleeping in it everynight! And to arrive in Sydney, how odd, wow, our Australian trip had at last come full circle and it was time to begin a whole new adventure. . . .

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