We just had a lovely week with friends from NH, showing them “our neck of the woods”, eating and drinking very well. We took them to our farmers market, local breweries and cheese makers, and our favorite places. Now it is down to business of getting ready for the big road trip.
Last week we decided to break down and get a car fridge. It is will make life soo much easier because there will be times that there won’t be road houses to pick up food, and this way we can keep our food safely and I can cook with a little bit more variety than just ramen noodles. We hadn’t planned on it but it just makes sense. The fridge runs off the car battery while charging it’s own battery as well, then at night, it’s battery will continue to keep things cold without draining the car battery. I should be able to keep a weeks worth of perishable food in it which will be good.
This week? Getting the car serviced, all it fluids changed, getting a jerry can holder for our spare fuel tank, sorting through all our stuff, storing what we don’t need on the trip at the Lamberts, packing what we think we need, then winnowing that down to the essentials, packing the pantry and cooking stuff, shopping for food, cleaning the house, and then Friday around noon, after our last lunch in Byron for 5 months, hitting the road.
Our first stop is down to Red Cliffs, south of Yamba, for a 4WD course. This will teach us how to ford water, drive on sand and navigate general outback conditions. After that we are well and truly off, heading west through the Washpool National Park towards Glen Innes, Inverell, Bingara, Narrabri, Coonabarabran, Cobar, Wilcannia and Broken Hill, where we will probable be or a day or two. It is full of art galleries, a famous sculpture park, food and maybe a real bed. Off we go into the wild blue yonder.
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