Hi guys, well today could have been better,
as most of you know we are cursing through the outback now toward Darwin, West from Townsville, and to date all has been well.
Well today made up for all the good days we have had all in one hit.
Leaving Charters Towers, a road train put a rock right between my eyes on the windscreen,
yep you guessed it, it is stuffed, and it was only replaced after our last trip, OK that's life along these roads i figured.
Oh it gets better than that
about 30 kilometers up the road we stop for a drink and i walk around the other side of the van and nearly have a heart attack
one tyer is completely gone, totally shredded
I did not even notice that it had gone, as the second wheel carried the weight all that way, could have bee for 30 k's
Ok that is life i say to myself it is only a tyer and one can expect a flat every now and then
So I promptly change it and away we go, for another 40 k's or so and i look back in the mirrors and see smoke pouring from the opposite side of the van, yep you guessed it again, another shredded tyer.
Well that is all well and good but i have no spare, as it is shredded as well, so i have to limp up the highway at 10 k's an hour till i find a place to examine the damage.
Anyway to cut a long story short, i had to unhitch, leave Alice with the van and drive 50 k's to a place called Hughenden pay out $700.00 and buy two new tyers
come back and fit them and now being about 4 in the afternoon are ready to go again, however we are just staying free camped here till morning.
So that was our day, hope yours was much better
yea one can only laugh about i guess
Check out the tyers,
Leon