Well we're back in Alice Springs. Flew in on Tuesday expecting to walk into the mechanic and drive away. 3 days later we're still camping out of our tiny hiking tent at the caravan park.
It's been pretty hot. High 20's and low 30's in the sun. We've been spending a few hours in the library each day to do our business emails and stuff. Bigpond mobile broadband really works well here.
Yesterday there was a bomb scare in the Todd Mall (part of the main st). So everyone had to go the pub until it was over. Before that it was a pretty slow news day as you can see by the photo here of the newspaper headline. Today's headline is 'Bomb Drama'.
Last night we met some Kiwi travelling door-to-door salesmen at the caravan park while at the communal bbq. They were in Alice Springs to sell water filters. the water here isn't the best so they might have a bit of luck. I didn't think door-to-door salesmen still existed. Their Kiwi accents and humour were more entertaining than Flight of the Conchords tv series and the latest NZ film 'Boy' put together. That, combined with telling our story about being held hostage by the local mechanic whilst drinking Jack Daniels out of an empty pineapple tin (our cups are in the van at the mechanic!) made interesting conversation.
So hopefully today will be the day we get to drive the van and sleep in a bed.
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