1,093k's from Home to Port Augusta yesterday. Filled and ready to head to Painted Desert tonight. Met up with bro-nance couple Mossy & Hoe, youth trio Reece, John & Jonti in the red hilux, and Ben in the Jeep.

Arrived safely at Coober Pedy, making our way to Arckaringa

Quick lunch at a truck parking stop and time to kick the footy.

Pimba, population of 50 and home of Spuds Roadhouse. Amity has driven almost 2hours from Port Augusta. Skills developed include dodging major kill and over taking road trains & grey nomads! Quick stop and driver change. Time for Dean to check the temperature spikes in the Landcruiser. Hopefully everything is OK...

Arrived at Port Augusta at 6:45pm local time. (1/2 hour and one century behind Melbourne) Met up with Al Bundy and his One Direction loaded iPod wielding son, Tom at Bordertown around lunch time. Great to see Al living it up in the luxury of a Pajero this trip. Met up with Tony at the caravan park. Tony, Chris, Kim, Amity, Ben & Elaine are off to the pub for dinner. At Big4 in a cabin with Dean & his boys. As it turns out a mate of ours from Wandin is ...