Day 15. 99 bottles of beer on the wall...


Today! Wow what an epic drive today has been.

We packed up and headed North East towards Cobar at 8am! Stopping past McDonalds for the kids to grab some breakfast (and I coffee), we departed Broken Hill. Kids were all pep talked up regarding the plans for the day and the goal of reaching Dubbo this evening. Albeit, they needed to just be settled and not be killing each other the whole way or it just wasn't going to work.

Apprehension hung over our heads, as we just weren't sure we were going to make the distance before dusk to avoid the trillions of emu's, Goats, and kangaroos that line the sides of the Barrier highway; or that the condition of the road was going to be in our favour. The road into Broken Hill from Adelaide was cut up and in poor condition, resulting in extra time to drive the distance. However, we set off this morning optimistic but realistic we may not be able to do the drive in one day today; and plan B was to spend the night in Cobar and up and at em in the am tomorrow to complete the drive to Dubbo.

BUT........ to our delight the road was actually okay; albeit long, barren and straight; AND the kids were AMAZING! they just sucked up the long trip without complaint or fighting and we all quite enjoyed the drive. Certainly didn't feel like 770kms . Maciek did an epic job driving the whole way (i drove zero of the time - only to hitch the caravan on and off the car 😆).

Kids were ratty for the last 100 kms but to their justification so were we, and the last 100 kms feels like an eternity.

We arrived into Dubbo around 5.30pm and set up home.

To all of our delight it was warm, and there was plenty of time to relax and swim in the pool to wind up our day.

Tomorrow we plan on hitting the Western Plains Zoo via foot pedal on our bikes; however, predicted temperature is 41 degrees. So we will play that by ear and if Saturday weather is cooler we may put the zoo off till then.

Now the kids are asleep, Maciek and I are sitting outside, enjoying the cool night breeze; before hitting the sack for another action packed day tomorrow.

Catch Ya' all tomorrow.

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