Monday 19th May.
Well our time at the AGM has ended. This morning we completed packing up and were able to have the luxury of washing all the dust and dirt off the motorhome.
Topped up all our water containers with town water in preparation for our freedom camping on the way to Darwinr. It is 1,500 km's from Alice Springs to Darwin and as we are in no particular hurry we envisage quite a few free stops prior to reaching this destination.
After departing the show-grounds around 10:00am our final stops in "The Alice" were to fill up with diesel, last minute shopping at Coles or Woolies and a visit to the post office to buy our "Hot Passes" for the 3 day V8 Supercars in Darwin on June 20-22. These 3 day passes are the most economical way of admittance to this event.
Surprisingly a number of service stations in Alice Springs had run out of diesel but on our arrival at the third one we visited the tanker was currently there filling up the storage tanks.
We travelled north on the Stuart Hwy for an hour or so then stopped for a lunch break at one of the rest areas. We have decided to slow down our rate of travel as we have quite a bit of time up our sleeves before we plan to arrive in Darwin. Consequently after our lunch break we only traveled a further 35 km's before settling into the next rest area known as Prowse Gap. There were already
three other travellers there for the night. This earlier than normal stop gave us the opportunity to sit in the sun and do some reading. The sunset was absolutely magnificent, followed by a mild evening and night. Distance traveled today 150km.
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