Day 7 & 8 - Uluru and Kata Tjuta Yesterday started differently than any of the other mornings. We didnt wake up from Olivia nor from our other alarm. We woke up from the cold! The two days before we had been driving south from the tropical Top End to the Red Center where the days are still hot (30+) but the nights get very cold (5 degrees). We didnt really expect it to impact the inside of our motorhome so heavily :-) Meanwhile we have added a blanket (also ...

Day 6 (I think - am starting to lose track of time :-)) - driving from Tennant Creek to Curtin Springs Today was a driving day. From waking up until diner we litterally did not do anything else. But, we ended up catching up time and even gaining time! Thanks to the helicopter yesterday and some serious stress today (see below), we are now officially no longer in a hurry. And this goes until end November for me and end December for Hanne. Pls take note of it now ...

Day 5 - Nitmiluk (Katherine Gorge) and driving the Track to Tennant Creek We were in a helicopter today!! But first, it is the second day that the cellphone alarm wakes us up and not that bigger alarm :-). Read: confirmation of no more jetlag for Olivia! The plan was to take the earliest 2 hour boat tour (9am) through gorge 1 and 2 and then leave at 11:30 for the "roadtrip of a lifetime". We planned to book the trip as soon as the place opened (7:30). As with mo...

Day 3 and 4: Kakadu National Park. Today we were in paradise. Went through hell to get there but we really found paradise. But I will get to that after talking about yesterday first. We are now truly in the Outback and have 0 cell phone network for 2 days already with probably 2 more days to go, so probably a lot of days will need to be posted on this blog at once. They call it the Outback for a reason. So, about yesterday. Yesterday started in the same way ...

Day 2 - from Darwin to Kakadu: today started in the same way as yesterday. At 00:50 Olivia woke up and so did we. Tough as we are, we did not get up this time and pretended to be a sleep... For about 30 minutes and then went to her to get her to sleep again. That worked after an hour or so and then I fell asleep again. Hanne didn't. Jetlag (in combination with stress about the motorhome) kept her awake all night. So she "woke up" at 8 am with the words: "Can we s...