What an absolutely beautiful day!! It's a special day today, because the sun rose in the east and will set in the west... Also, water disappears down the plug hole in an anti clockwise direction... And it's Jeremy's 12th birthday, but thats largely unimportant and not very relevant... unless you happen to be Jeremy?!? (That makes it THE most important day of the year, in the entire galaxy). The phone calls and text messages came thick and fast this morning, and w...

Early start this morning, as we left Adelaide for Port Augusta. The trip's about 340km, but we were told it can take as much as 5 to 6 hours by the time you get out of Adelaide with all the road works going on. Luckily, we had a bit of assistance with some insider, local knowledge, and we got out of Adelaide in good time. The scenery changed dramatically, as we left the outskirts of the city, and started chewing up the highway kilometers through the country town...