Thursday 12 July 2012 - Hard to believe, but we are finally away!  After numerous hiccups, we pulled out of our drive at 9.45 this morning, only to return twenty minutes later after I had tried to arrange forwarding our home phone calls to Grant’s mobile, then realised I had to do it from the home phone!  I never was very good at understanding technology.

So our real departure was at 10.30, and we left in overcast, cold conditions which didn’t get any better for the majority of todays drive.  It wasn’t till about an hour before we got to Kerang that it lightened up and we even got to see a bit of sunshine when we reached here.  A great omen for the rest of the trip – sunny days ahead. 

It has been a fairly uneventful day, as we intend to spend the first few days getting across to the Stuart Highway and pointing our noses north.

 

Todays highlights – the few detours we took (due to Dawn disagreeing with Zola, the lady who talks on our GPS), and the fact that we have finally made day one of our holiday.

P.S. Adding this just before bed .... major storm warning for here tonight, gale force winds, very large hailstones, and don't shelter under trees!!  OOps!  We're camped under a tree.  Well we had lots of loud thunder, and heavy rain, but it seems to have passed.  So - sunny days ahead.