White Gum Motel Alice Springs

... coming up in the air. We had even passed a dust devil on the way to the airport. I wasn't sure of the location of everything exactly but was looking out the window and was able to spot Uluru very easily. You just can't miss it because it is so huge. In the hazy heat filled afternoon, it was rather blurry in the short distance. We'll go out for sunrise tomorrow.

... After all the miles we had put on the camper van over the last few weeks, what was another 3,000 extra. We did our grocery shopping at Port Augusta, filled all our water bottles again, checked the van, and was on the Stuart highway heading towards Coober Pedy. That first night on the Stuart highway, we stayed in a free rest area/bush camp about 300 km North of Port Augusta. After we finished making tea, we got to watch a brilliant display of lightning that ...

... mellow. We stopped at a camel farm for a quick ride, managed to be at a gas station with a bar to watch the Melbourne Cup at 1pm, (it's a 4 minute horse race that the nation goes ape **** over!) then drove back to Alice Springs. (I bet on a horse and didn't win). <br>That night our whole group met for dinner and many drinks. Found out the German couple on our van got engaged the last night in the barn! Too cute. After dinner, we had drinks at a bar next to the ...

Heute hatten wir noch einmal einen gemuetlichen Tag in Alice.<br>Am Vormittag waren wir im Alice Springs Desert Garden. In diesem wir sehr eindrucksvoll der Lebensraum Wueste mit seinen ganzen Facetten dargestellt. Dabei hatten wir einige Aha-Erlebnisse. Der Besuch waere vor unserer Outback-Tour noch wertvoller gewesen.<br><br>Am Nachmittag waren wir noch ein wenig bummeln und haben dann zusammengepackt. Morgen gehts ja frueh weiter.<br>

... that this would be the best and most fun group of all. I think I gained at least 10 years of my life throughout the trip....laughing that much. It was a pretty colourful mix of all kinds of people..... a few really nice couples, a few traveling by themselves like me, a family from Holland traveling for 6 months with their kids...all great fun. <br>At 6 am we sat off for a long drive through the Red Center - a lot of desert and again desert and desert, a ...

... come ride 30 hours like we did.<br><br>As far as sleeping goes, those 1950s style airline seats are the Outback Motel 6 unless anyone wants to cough up $150 more for a miniscule Red bunk. That might make it a Days Inn experience. No that is pushing it a bit too far...how about an old Econolodge in an interesting part of town. Not surprisingly, no one took the "upgrade" since this was mostly a backpacker crowd. About the only person who got any ...

... t want it to end. But sadly it had to and we were back to Alice before too long. Trip over but some of us met up later to go to a concert by Jimmy Barnes, big Aussie gravelly voiced rock star (left Glasgow as a boy) &#8211; and of course it was an open air concert &#8211; what else?<br><br>Well that&#8217;s all for now folks (did someone say thank goodness?) I know I have gone on a bit but I have covered so much ground over the last couple of weeks that I couldn&#8217;t cut it down

... mit eigener Zeiteinteilung. Zurueck in Alice besuchten wir das Hauptquartier der "Fliegenden Doktoren" und wir hatten Zeit einige Einkaeufe zu erledigen. Den freien Abend verbrachten die meisten mit einem gemeinsamen Abendessen im Overlander Restaurant und dann ging es zum Absacker in den Saloon. <br>

... where we are sat that we cant see any of what the poor girl is preparing. She has a piece of opal (im guessing) in her hand that she puts up to various moving objects / into various things and/rubs against something - lordy knows. She has an amazing disinterest in all that she does and at the end of each new process she holds up the invisable object...see.....yep and then we do this.....some distant hand movement...see........then this..something ...

... 8220;paths&#8221; (I wouldn&#8217;t call them roads). After the tough 45 minute drive, we came to our destination. The views throughout the day have been absolutely amazing. In particular, the area we stopped was like an &#8220;oasis&#8221; with palm trees and other foliage. But most of it was rugged desert and not clear sand like the Sahara.<br ...