The Mission: 15,000km around the West in 90 days. From Canberra, we plan to head west to South Australia, up thru the middle (Stuart Hwy) to Broome - via the Tanami Track - and then the Kimberley, looping down the West Coast of WA and back across the Nullabor.
Day 1: The sun refused to shine today, which made great travelling weather. But the suppressed mood of the weather was also a good barometer of our suppressed beginnings - not quite making the planned distance to Mildura this first day. With hot van brakes on one side, we decided not to push on, stopping at Balranald.
Dave has been struggling this past week with a swollen and sore toe, and more lately a very swollen and sore knee. As we headed off on our trip he strove for the stiff upper lip and struggled valiantly on. However, the knee has become excruciatingly painful with any movement. Dave even succumbed to not one but two painkillers (!!), and on cutting the journey for the day short, fell immediately asleep once we parked the van.
Tomorrow looks to be a quiet day, limping towards Mildura where we hope to visit a van doctor (Jayco) about the brakes, and a human doctor about the driver's brake-application leg. We are assuming, so far, that the two are not related.
I'd like to say we just had the glitch for this mission, but history has taught us that is not a good thing to say!!
Liz.
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