On Our way to Central Australia

People told us we were crazy (some still do) but we decided to drive to Central Australia. People told us we should fly. "It's a long drive" we were told. It was a really long drive, we covered 5500 km in 12 days, but we came to Australia to see the country, not the economy seating on a Jetstar flight. We rented a pop-up caravan that we towed from Adelaide to Alice Springs. It certainly made life interesting - it was very warm all day and at night we froze our tushies off. It was the middle of winter!




Heading down the hill into Adelaide. It was absolutely crazy windy that day - I'm wondering how many of the "emergency arrester beds" were used.

Our home away from home for 12 nights. The sleeping area is where the windows are and then there was some room for a small table and some stools oon the floor. That came in handy when we huddled around the propane lamp at night trying to keep warm.

Our front yard/ kitchen area. Gourmet meals cooked and enjoyed here. One thing campgrounds in Australia offer is a barbeque area where you can cook your food. Kennedy is standing in front of our handy counter area.

The caravan came with this lovely loft bedroom reached by a small ladder. We took loads of extra blankets and we used every one of them.

Heading out of Port Augusta and onwards to the "Red Center"!

Beautiful sunsets almost every night.

We passed lots of wind farms. They seem to be quite common place up there.
This is pretty much the scenery we saw - for many, many days....
A roadhouse! Spuds Roadhouse to be exact. These were always a welcome sight cause it meant you could buy gas, food and drinks. It also meant that there were other people out there - which was very comforting some days....

...cause once you left Spuds this is what you saw.

The girls decided that this was the perfect place to sit and eat some lunch at Spud's.
Back on the road after lunch. Apparently we're taking a little of the local wildlife with us on our windshield.

This is only the onset as it was such a huge trip that it really needs to be split into parts. We covered a lot of territory and saw a lot of great things that I can't do justice to in a single blog. At this point we were only beginning to understand the charm and mystique of the center, but we were hooked!