Day 29
The FINAL DAY of our adventure
Back to our mundane lives and then back to work in a few days
Just a few hundred kilometres and a few hours of driving to get us home.
Left Kalgoorlie and followed the Pipeline that was built in 1903.
100+ years later and there are now TWO pipelines
The people in Kalgoorlie are really happy to have
hot water now
100km out from Kal and we hear BANG.. rattle rattle
"what was that ?" asks Cathy
"Oh, just a rock from the passing trucks flying up and bouncing off the sunvisor" says I (not really having any idea)
Well I was right.
The rock hit the sunvisor
Just after it bounced of the windscreen
We then watched it slowly spread until it couldn't go any further
Looks like we are adding a new windscreen to the list of damages on this trip
We haven't had this many parts fixed or replaced in all the 5 previous Nullabor crossings put together
But we got to the Nats
participated in all the activities
and got home again
We did our first Nullabor crossing in the wagon back in 2005 to the Jindabyne Nats. It was going to be a one off, to be able to tick it off the list of "MUST DO" things
Now after the 7th crossing.........
I think we might get slack in 2016 and put the wagon on the back of a truck
( But driving through the Northern Territory is on my list, and I haven't done that yet. It's a BIG empty space on my map
)
Thanks again to everyone who participated in the Nats and made it another GREAT weekend
and thanks to everyone who kept us on the road for the past 29 days
I hope everyone has enjoyed the adventure as much as we have
(and for the guys at work who doubted the old Holdens ability to do the trip
.
)
See you all again in Toowwwoommbbaa
(I promise to learn to spell Tooowwwooommmbbbaaa corektly by then
)
& Cathy