LukeandTraceyGlover

Hey all, Day 10 has us in Echuca. Today we drove from Broken Hill to Echuca. Lots of rain, big drive, nothing else more to say! Long drive! We have holed up in a hotel tonight, very nice one for our last night on the road. Tomorrow we fined out when we move into the new house. We also get to give Declan big cuddles!!!! Thanks for those of you who have enjoyed my rantings Cya... read more

Hey All, Today we have gone into our 4th State and entered Broken Hill in NSW. We still haven't seen too much news as our internet connection is with Optus, therefore it is crap and our net drops out a fair bit. We have been told by a lot of people that we are lucky as we would still be stuck on the Oodnadatta track (don't see a downside to that) We left Port Augusta this morning after taking our time packing up as we only had about 450 ks to do. Pretty boring day really, saw a heap of Emu's again so we stopped for some photos the beeped the horn heaps to make them run and they didn't let us down. They were running around like they were dodging bullets, left. right, fall over, ... read more

Hey all, Day 6 had us Leaving Uluru for Oodnadatta but it wasn't to be and we ended up in Coober Pedy. I was absolutely shattered yesterday arvo! We heard on the UHF that the rain we had at Uluru had gotten worse and moved towards the Simpson closing all roads down the Oodnadatta. No access in or out. I called the roadhouse to confirm and he said at least 2-3 days until roads might be opened. When we got to Marla we drove 500m down the Oodnadatta track to the signs and sure enough everything was closed, NOT HAPPY JAN!!!!!!! We decided to put in a big day then and drive to Coober Pedy and stay in an underground Hotel for the night which was great. They drilled a big horizontal hole into the the ... read more

Hey all, Day 4 had us leaving the Marla roadhouse for Uluru. The campground at Marla was nice, had a supermarket, Pub, Restaurant, pool and dodgy locals! There were a few very shifty types getting around that night so we had dinner and went back to the van to watch a movie. In the morning there was a police van out the front talking to two local black fellas and a woman with child. The police took her over to the van and the two other starting abusing the cops, if you used that language to a Victorian copper you would have been shot then told to pull ya head in! We left there and headed for the border, a lot of nothing out here!!!!!!! We did however see two massive wedge tailed eagles eating some ... read more

Hey All, We woke this morning to it pouring with rain and found ourselves packing up a wet caravan. Had a massive head wind as we headed to Port Augusta and went thru 90 litres for only 450k! Called into Wilmington for lunch after Judy & Mal had said it was a good lunch spot. Best home made pies i have ever had, Trace hasnt been crook after the Chicken so it must have been good too. We have pulled into Woomera for the night, this is where they used to do the missile launches, place looks like a ghost town. Blowing a gale, rain clouds look like they have passed. Once again the grey Nomads have accepted us into their club with the Aussie salute being used everywhere. We seem like we are the only ... read more