the beginning - 13th nov

We finally left Melbourne. Our departure date was a week later than first thought, but when thinking we didn’t realise how long things would take. So we headed for the NSW border at Mildura. We didn’t get that far so we camped in the final 10 metres of Hattah national park. We poked our nose into the official campsite but they wanted $13 for some dirt. Turns out the dirt is the same up the road only free.
We made OJ in the morning to use up our 3kg and obey the fruit fly zones. Tastes great but is really sticky! From here we drove into Mildura.
We decided to stop here and shop for a few things. As if we haven’t spent enough in the last 2 weeks getting ready! If you look at the car fully loaded, 110L diesel, 30L water, house… you’ll see the back end is a bit ‘saggy.’ one job we didn’t get around to doing back in Melbourne was fitting the polyair springs. Lets just say not one bump went unnoticed.

So we chatted to some people who knew some people who had a workshop. So we drove to the workshop and chatted to these people, in particular, Paul, manager at Mildura auto/ Shell servo benetor rd or something. He pointed out the jack and stands and I (rob) got to work. Once fitted and inflated, we gained 50mm suspension travel and a much more comfortable ride. Just ask Emily, I was so much happier.
So the new hiluxury took us to broken hill, which is where we will spend the night and day tomorrow. We will catch up again on the other side of the flinders rangers. Over and out.