Good morning once again. Well at least for those of you in Australia it is Good Morning! I see I have had some visitors looking at the blog from other countries i.e. Germany, Israel and Peru. So to you guys and all of our friends and family here in Australia, Thanks for looking. Today I don't have a lot of news to tell and once again there is no Wiki Camps map to show our future itinerary though I am about two thirds of the way through completing it. Promises, Promises! Yes it will be posted but I just can't settle on all of the destinations. To wet your appetite though, I have decided to post a few photos from one of our previous trips as an indicator of the sorts of things we will be posting this time. Check thenm out, enjoy and feel free to comment if you wish. This is taken at Kings Canyon, 2017. The ancient Aboriginal Ochre Mine in Tjoritja National Park. Ormiston Gorge, Tjoritja National Park. View of our Camp site at Karlu Karlu (Devil's Marb...

Renovations slowly coming to a close now. Putting the finishing touches on the garage with some well needed paint. Warehouse racking all put up in place! Yes I had myself in a place of happy delusion. Just as all was coming together the best laid plans of men and Richard Hicks came tumbling down! The work Bench designed to save Janelle's back by lifting the washing machine and dryer off the ground is an epic failure. First spin of the washer and it becomes apparent that the declarations of future doom (from my beloved Nellie Maree) are vindicated and this well laid plan is about to be abandoned! Another use for the work bench or dispatching it to eBay is now highly likely. Once again no Wiki camp map to show our intended travel route but rest assured, it will eventually be posted. My only excuse is that my time has been a little dominated by activities in the garage, (painting and building). 

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, our retaining wall and steps at the front of the house have been finished. Janelle and I are so glad that it is finally finished. Now, it just clean up the mud and mess on the fence and driveway and then remove all of our unwanted stuff from the garage before I paint in the garage. Lord, Lord, I can see the light; at the end of the tunnel that is! Sorry I promised that I would have a link to a Wikicamps map detailing the rough idea of our upcoming trip but I apologise it is not yet finished. Eventually I will get it up and running so that everyone can see where we are going. I hope my ramblings are not too boring, I'm still getting used to writing a post every couple of days.  Wishing you all well!

Hopefully today we will see some steps going onto our front patio. Yesterday we have had a little more progress on our retaining wall and I can see that we will actually get this finished at some point in the future. We are pretty happy that the wall is done and it serves the intended purpose. In terms of our prospective adventure, I have been preparing a Wiki Camps map with a tentative outline of just where we will be going and some dates so that some of you can follow us on the way. I will post that map tomorrow or later today.  I can't help but start to get a little bit excited now, so with a little more planning all seems to be coming together.

Today is another day and another step towards getting into that Van and heading off on our next adventure. Yesterday two of the posts for the retaining wall have been cemented into place and the sleepers have been purchased. We can't wait to get this house renovation finished so that we can focus on some planning for our trip. I dove into the wardrobe yesterday to dig out my Camp 8 book and started planning the initial travel route up to Burrum Heads and then across to the northern Territory. The decisions we have to make are whether or not to go north to Charters Towers and then across or head straight for Longreach at Rockhampton. Well for now those decisions can wait until the house is done!

Well as you can see from the photos we have started repairing the retaining wall around our front balcony. There is a little bit of a hold up because as usual nothing is as simple as expected. Still, we are on track and bit by bit all is coming together.

Janelle and Richard are back on the road again in about a month and a half. First heading up to Burrum Heads to look up some friends and then we will slowly find our way across and up to Darwin. Then its slowly down the Western Coast and back across the Nullabor. We hope to make posts here about three times a week and we will include a few photos and more than a few stories about our exploits. First though we are focused on finishing the house renovations. Tomorrow (17/04/2018) we start the retaining wall around the front patio. Already we have had the house painted inside and the floor coverings replaced. A few more touch ups with the painting at the end of this week and all is going to plan!