Day 4, Wednesday – Tibooburra to Innaminka An earlier rise today, we made it into town by 9 – to grab a coffee before leaving. At least that was the plan, until Les locked

Created: 20 Jul 2013 14:37 Views: 6090

Simpson Day 3

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Day 3 Broken Hill, clocks half an hour back for local time, refuel, some of us needed to purchase our Desert Passes for our passages into South Australian parks. Damian i

Created: 16 Jul 2013 21:13 Views: 5226

Simpson Day 8 (updated)

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"She's buggered, mate.", says the mechanic, so it's Total Care to the rescue. The vehicle is to be left here at the RACQ centre waiting trucking back to Melbourne. The plan

Created: 21 Jul 2013 10:10 Views: 5135

Simpson Days 9 - 14

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Day 9, Monday – Somewhere on the QAA Line to Lindsay Junction An easy, uneventful, day. Slow travelling – around 20 km/h average. Lunch at <a class="tt_keyword lb" rel="W93

Created: 28 Jul 2013 18:54 Views: 4997

Simpson Day 5

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Day 5, Thursday – Innaminka to Haddon Corner Last night at the Outaminka Beer garden (that is it what it is called) there was a big outdoor screen set up for the State

Created: 20 Jul 2013 21:32 Views: 4856

Simpson Day 7

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Day 7, Saturday – Rest Day Recently Jan an I changed our phone plan to Aldi pre-paid – because it utilised the Telstra network and was much cheaper than Telstra from Telstra – but there is a ...

Created: 20 Jul 2013 23:03 Views: 4811

Simpson Day 17

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2013-07-30 Day 17, Coober Pedy to Muloorina (Marree) 9 am departure. We bid Les farewell for a f

Created: 01 Aug 2013 21:40 Views: 4657

Simpson Day 18

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2013-07-31 Day 18, Muloorina to Flinders Ranges via Lake Eyre North Corrugations, and more corrugations, on the road to Lake Eyre North. Once there the view was great and we wa

Created: 01 Aug 2013 21:44 Views: 4649

Simpson Day 2

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Day 2 Martin and Bev arriver around 7:30 pm last night and had their tents up just before the heavens opened up. Half an hour later it was gone, not to be seen again. Damian arrived around 9 pm....

Created: 15 Jul 2013 23:15 Views: 4611

Simpson Day 6

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Day 6, Friday – Haddon Corner - Birdsville A worrying amount of rain overnight but not much

Created: 20 Jul 2013 22:11 Views: 4580

Simpson Day 15

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An early start, then breakfast at the Pink Roadhouse, followed by a look around the place including the Ghan railway museum. I was surprised to see (but perhaps I should

Created: 28 Jul 2013 22:41 Views: 4566

Simpson Day 16

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2013-07-29 Day 16, Monday, Coober Pedy—Rest Day A very quiet morning. Jan slept most of the morning, Martin has ditched the tent and taken a bunk with Bev and Stephen (for

Created: 29 Jul 2013 22:13 Views: 4356

Simpson Day 1

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Day 1 Bendigo to Hattah Lakes A wet night, a wet morning. A straight forward trip up the highway. Lunch at <a class="tt_keyword lb" rel="W49410" href="/places/49410/vic+sea-l

Created: 14 Jul 2013 17:18 Views: 4354

Simpson Day 19

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2013-08-01 Day 19, Flinders Ranges to Burra This morning we followed the Geological Trail across the <a

Created: 01 Aug 2013 21:46 Views: 4285

Simpson Day 0

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This evening I explored blogging for the first time. On this site the first line of the introductory help text read "Congratulations!...

Created: 13 Jul 2013 22:00 Views: 3859

Simpson Day 21 - We're home, it's all over

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2013-08-03 Day 21, Horsham to Home We chose the Comfort Inn Capital Horsham because they had been very helpful to Peter and Jean on a previous occasion when most places were booked out. We too

Created: 03 Aug 2013 20:47 Views: 3028