West2East Challenge Day 12: Windorah to Roma 725km

The penultimate day has arrived! And for once, we’re ready before Wozza!

Quite a long day today but we’re edging back into civilisation now so it’s pretty much tarmac all the way for us now! We start driving through big towns and even hit the motorway today. What a difference in driving conditions compared with a couple of days ago, even yesterday!

The caravan park at Roma (Big Rigs Caravan Park) is nice and easy to find but a little tricky to pitch! If you can fit on a pitch you can stay and luckily Lance and Michael do a great job of negotiating the tight spaces just before the heavens open and we’re treated to a wonderful display of lightening!

I met a lovely couple who were pitched next to us and we chatted for a while about our tour – everyone here is so interested in what we’ve been up to in the last couple of weeks and what we’ve found is that many of our new friends have been to the same places as us, just at a more leisurely pace! This couple were originally from Birmingham before moving here 56 years ago, and they’ve still got their accents! They’re particularly interested in the Bailey’s as they have friends and family members who have Baileys and were particularly interested in these prototypes as they’re the first two to be built in Oz rather than shipped in from Bristol – this is a real selling point for Bailey.

It’s late already though so we’ve found a Chinese restaurant for dinner – not a burger in sight! Delicious! But it’s been a long day driving and we’ve got another long day tomorrow. Our last day, I can’t believe it! There’s not much time for much else today, one more early start and we’ll be at our final destination! See you at the finish line!

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