Nine year old Tim pokes his head into the Sinclair tent, where I’m giving Jack a leg massage.
Tim: What!?! Why does he get a massage?
Mum: He’s riden a long way today and he’s pretty sore.
Tim: Oh, harden up.
From the monthly archives:
September 2008
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Day 18 – Fun at Broken Hill
Passed through Olary on our way to Broken Hill. Total ghost town. Not a soul lived there. It was pretty awesome.
In front of the old Olary Train Station
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Day 16 – Day 18… Oodla Wirra Pub
Lots more awesome fun bush camping. 
We all wound up at the Oodla Wirra pub that night. The pub was really all there was to the town (excepting the Quarantine Checkpoint), but it was a pretty awesome pub.
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Day 15 – Iron Knob
Very exciting day today, as I saw my first ever real wildlife – four emus wandering through the old town of Iron Knob. And yes, Harry loved the name.
I also got on the bike for the first time today. [click to continue...]
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Day 15 – Port Augusta
It’s weird – just as you get into some sort of a routine out here, it all gets turned on its head. Not that its a bad thing, but still. Got into Port Augusta fairly early and met everyone at the campsite. Guess what?!? Showers! It felt so good to have a shower – I was disgustingly filthy and my hair! Erugh. But it was good to get clean.
After making ourselves at least partially fit to be seen, we went down to Coles and did all the groceries for the next few days until Broken Hill. It’s amazing how organised Mum is, she’s incredible.
That night we went to the West Augusta Football Club for dinner – real fine dining, wooh! $8.50 for a meal. $11.50 if you want to splash out and get a steak. Great food though. [click to continue...]
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Day 13 – Day 15… Fun with Uncy Neil
It’s been really good seeing Neil again, haven’t seen him in ages. Keep forgetting to call him Neil, keep saying Trevor, or even worse, Uncle Trevor. It’s been hard to remember, so I reverted to Uncy. This is my Uncy:
We’ve (well, Neil) have found some awesome campsites, one was way off the road with heaps and lots of little red dirt tracks leading off in a sort of maze… it was pretty awesome.
- Jack and Nicky at our camping spot for the night.
We get to Port Augusta tomorrow where we lose Neil and meet David and Maree White – David’s the boss of Big Brothers Big Sisters in Melbourne and they’ll be riding for a couple of days, until we arrive in Broken Hill – and Jo and Chris who are coming until the end (Jo works for Mum and Dad). So that will be rather excellent.
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Day 14 – We’re Here!
Our second day with Perth to Paradise!!
It was so good to get off that bus on Monday night and see everyone – hadn’t seen Em or Ange in ages, so that was good.
Dad, Em, Spud, Ange and Jack
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Joining the Perth to Paradise
So, just arrived in Ceduna, South Australia, after a two hour flight from the Gold Coast to Adelaide and then a twelve hour (count them – twelve) bus ride to Ceduna, one of the most ewky things in existance. It wasn’t too boring though, which was nice. We saw the giant cockroach and the giant fly a little way out of Adelaide. Not quite as big (or as cool) as the Big Pineapple, but I guess everything’s relative.
But anyway, finally here!
Woo hoo!
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Looking good right now…
So happy right now.
Just found out I got an awesome scholarship for uni next year.
And a job at Coles (I think).
And Harry and I leave for Ceduna/Adelaide/God only knows where else tomorrow.
Yay.
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Cryptic!!
I got a text from Coles today (I had a job interview there a few weeks back) and it basically says “Welcome to Coles. Go to this website for your induction and here’s your login details.”
Um, okay?
So I go to the website and it promptly congratulates me on joining the Coles team.
I’ve joined the Coles team?
I’m so confused.
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