We are on the road, leaving Perth for South Australia!
I am sure that everyone, myself included can hardly believe that we will be finally leaving the state or that it will actually happen {I might not even really believe it until we are across the line} but that is the plan as we head out of Mundaring slightly later than planned. Given we left later we decided to stick to the road well traveled and followed Great Easter Highway until Coolgardie.
Heading towards Norseman we stopped around 80km before, just in a
road side rest area. Nothing fancy bit it serviced it purpose.
I did however learn two very important things when picking somewhere for a quick overnight stop:
#1 Trains can be LOUD when they're long and one is trying to sleep
#2 Trucks drive heaps at night, big trucks, big LOUD annoying trucks at all hours of the night
We
packed up bright at early and hit the road again. A refuel in
Norseman, including taking in the local lookout and a drive around the
town {My Mum's family did live here for a time} before we hit the Eyre
Highway.
It wasn't anything like I expected it to be, the Eyre
Highway that is. Whilst, yes it does contain 'Australia's Longest
Straight', it had a surprising number of changes to the landscape. This
doesn't even include the trip up a massive range. That is right there
was a HILL, I totally didn't expect that!
The drive was
uneventful and relatively painless. We again stopped in a rest area,
but this time moved further back from the road {for a much better night
of sleep}.
Being 40km from the border means we will be in South Australia bright and early tomorrow morning.
