Chasing the sun!

Most of our days seem to revolve around sunrise and sunset.
And Interesting clouds, lizards on the road, birds flying into our windscreen.
And breakfast, lunch and dinner.
However, we usually have lunch so late that dinner seems purely self indulgent. Instead we just say goodnight with a few pieces of Top Deck or Marble.
Not self indulgent at all :P

Speaking of, we hit Coober Pedy and decided to stay in an underground hotel. Now, this wasn't an easy choice. We don't have much "funds" for this trip. And the money we did save last year is still saved up for our next overseas adventure and we kind of don't want to use that. So, we're being pretty cheap. Eating things like MiGoreng noodles and canned lentils and no-name pasta for lunch and dinner. Oats for breaky, always. Nothing especially fancy. But we decided that the use of a shower, a kitchen (OVEN!), a washing machine and the novelty of staying underground was well worth it. H figured that saving money by not staying in a hotel wasn't worth the countless times I was probably gonna say something about wishing we had stayed underground… 'Cause I do that kind of thing.

Coober Pedy is strange, but the people were friendly.

We stayed 6.5m's underground and we're thrown out by the fact that the sun wouldn't be waking us up.



We baked brownies and cooked pizza and spent way to much money on groceries :P

Loved it.




We only stayed the one night and explored the surrounding area a bit the next day.
Deciding to give the car another go at an unsealed road, because all the websites/forums told us it WAS possible.




11km takes us a long time along an unsealed road, but we made it. Relatively unharmed, but extremely dusty, to The Breakaways.


This was probably the furthest we've been away from our car in a long time.

Anyhow, we hit the road again, and the engine overheated not long after our "off road" experience. Is it possible to shake the coolant form the radiator?? Well, something like that happened.

H fixed it, 'cause he's a strong and able manly man. And we drove on North towards some funny clouds. They reminded me of Super Mario and we sung the theme song a thousand times along the way.




Tonight we stayed at a Rest Area, all red dirt and gum tree's. Kicked back with our home made warm, spicy, apple cider, played a few games of Domino's (Thankyou Mike McCarthy for the inspiration!), saw a stunning sun set in the distance and decided we didn't really need dinner, seeing as we pretty much just had lunch :)




We're on our way to Uluru and surrounding areas.
See you there :)
xo