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I think the Canning Stock Route sounds a little too intrepid for me, Sheryn. But I'm keen to the trip from Broome to Darwin via the Gibb River Road. The girls didn't quite understand the sand thing when I explained it to them over there. They just thought I was a nut. But when we got home and...

Ah yes, I wonder who the dill was who made that original typo when he named the place. We made it! Broome - 6 The run to Broome from 80 Mile Beach was 400klm or so. Our last long drive. What I liked about driving over there was that if it was 400klm, you knew it would be 4 hours...

Karijini and onto Broome - Part 5 Coming from the eastern side of the continent, I’m used to national parks that have a bit of grass, some nice shady trees, a river, maybe even a shop somewhere close that makes nice coffee. Karijini has none of that sort of namby pamby nonsense. But it does...

Letting down the tires was a last resort because it would have been a long, slow drive to a servo to pump them up again.

Exmouth and the Pilbarra Got the van bogged. We were searching for dead starfish. In the caravan behind Larry’s, there was another grey nomad couple who Mimi and Lulu had been chatting to – that would be their dad’s genes coming through. They were an odd couple. He would have been...

I reckon tomorrow. Need to do a bit of work today - that pesky Depreciation Schedule stuff. I get the parcel van bogged in the next installment.

Week two – Carnarvon to Exmouth Life in the parcel van settled into a rhythm. Lisa swept the floor every twenty minutes when we were set up in a van park. I’m not sure why, given the ground just outside the van was invariably sandy, and given neither of us do much sweeping at home. She...

They would have been two of the dopey dolphins - probably mistook a turd for a pilchard.

HiEquity, we probably did pass eachother. I had that very barely perceptible finger lift. I would have liked to see Cape Peron, but I'm not sure the parcel van would have enjoyed it. Dazz, you're probably right. Those dolphins could be the really lazy or the really dopey ones. Incidently...

Week one – Denham (Monkey Mia) I’ve got a theory about the absence of grey nomads. It’s school holidays and the van parks are packed with families. Having scarpered from their own families, the nomads probably aren’t keen on being surrounded by other ones. I suspect up the coast, off on a...

Thanks all. Glad you enjoy the musings. It would be a tough gig making a living from writing. I just do it because I enjoy it. I would probably enjoy it less if I had to do it to feed myself. Do you mean Mike and Mal Leyland? I loved their show when I was a kid. I channelled them when I got...

Yeah. I did a lap years ago on a motorbike, so I had some idea. We were originally planning to do Perth to Darwin this time, but had a rethink and opted for Broome instead. Macca, I think most bowlos serve greasy chicken with lumps of something. I've been caught out before.

I'm back in town now. Working through a mountain of emails. No more travelling this year.

I got into the habit of writing about trips because my dad liked to read about them. He died last year, but I've kept the habit. And I have a few mates who like me to email them. Here is the first bit of the drive I just did: Week 1 – the first two stops. NASA is going to want to talk...