Where ever I may roam

This time I’m planning on a solo trip from Darwin to Adelaide and I probably won’t be deviating to far off the Stuart Highway. All up I think it will take me less than 2 weeks to cover the 3000km of this leg.

I havn’t done much research into the sights along the way, preferring to wing it. I’ll probably be giving Uluru a miss (Mt Augustus is bigger and you can actually climb it) but I will be trecking out to Oodnadatta to follow the old railway line for a bit.

As the funding is good, I am planning on being in Melbourne for New Years so I won’t be hanging around in Adelaide for too long. Of course a trip to the Barossa Valley will be done before departing.

In 2 days I’m heading down to Adelaide, I was planning on going to Cairns however the weather here is getting stormy and it’s not much better there. I’ve also heard that there are no jobs in Cairns either so I think I’ll save that trip for another time. I was going to stay in Darwin so that I could go through Kakadu on the way out, unfortuantly it wont be open again until April due to the wet season so I’ll need to come back some other time.

I managed to get a new radiator for the troopy for $450 just by ringing around, which I installed yesterday. I also got a new stereo for it, one that is capable of playing music from a USB drive. CDs have trouble playing when driving on corrugations. I have a few other issues to fix with the car, namely the dash loses power and the only thing that works on it is the speedo. Thats this afternoons job, as well as cleaning out the fridge and water bottles.

I managed to get more work with Iron Mountain, doing more QA, which I finished on Friday. I enjoyed working there and I’ll be keeping a lookout for work in some of their other offices.

I don’t know how long I’ll take to get to Adelaide, I have a feeling that it will be a short trip and at this stage I’m planning on being in Melbourne for New Years and then working my way up the east coast in the new year.