Tues 8 Sept, BARRIER HWY somewhere between Cobar and Wilcannia … brewing a coffee enjoying the setting moon and first light of the day, a 64 year old sailor towing a 6 berth yacht pulled into the rest stop to share a coffee. I was inspired to hear his stories of travel when his children were as young as Kaiden and Jamala, traveling around Australia and sailing. Relishing in freedom and family seemed to be this man’s life more than working, suddenly 64 and not much has changed.

Hooraayyy, we made it to Sunny’s place in outback Menindee. We had a great time meeting Sunny’s family, Phil and Brighton. Kaiden enjoyed his time there, especially with so many of Brighton’s toys to play with and Sunny’s book reading time. Jamala giggled away at the cat that has kind of made itself home there. What an amazing little town. The children in the town were so friendly and curious, a delight to meet.

We got to see the lakes and even a little bit of water, with Pelicans and gulls in sight.

Thankfully we were all at Sunny’s as Kaiden, Jamala and I suffered a relapse of Gastro, and appreciated having a domestic toilet nearby a comfortable bed. A big thanks to Sunny, Phil and Brighton for having us, showing around and looking after us in sickness ….see you guys in Nimbin next!!

Silverton was an interesting and familiar town …. Familiar I guess that many films have been shot here like “mad max” along with an enormous number of advertisements.

We are now in Broken Hill after a very slow drive into strong winds. Vege oil hunting has been great in this town, 600 litres plus of very clean oil!! …. Way more than we can carry, and so have enough vege oil to get us beyond Flinders Ranges. So after a bit of filtering we’ll head into SA !!

While we have been having all this fun, the contract on our house has gone out and exchange should happen on Monday…. Probably would have happened earlier if our solicitor was able to contact us early in the week.