It's the day before the off and we are making the final adjustments with gear and packing. The truck has had the once over, and all the normal spares have been packed (BFT and a can of WD40). Thanks to the generosity of Matt (our resident electric man), we have the loan of a solar panel, deep cell batteries and other assorted gadgets which hooks up for our "green energy" source to run the fridge and all the rechargables. We have had a dry run of packing most of the gear in the back and with the space we have, have decided on taking a bit extra fuel and water. Kevin's tool kit, spares and safty gear all fitted along with tarps, poles and recovery gear.
We have the carring capacity for 110 litres of fuel and 115 litres of water, this should be more than enough for where we will be going. The food will be interesting with sealable wet and dry esky setup (expecting to have to ward off a mice plauge), we will be taking limited supplies until Longreach where we can stockup before heading west. Most importantly the music has been organised, with each of us armed with a 2 gig thumb drive, with Kevin loading his collection of favourite 1000 and not to out done my 600 songs (I'm expecting most will complement each other and sorry Steve it's a Celine Dion free zone).
Next entry should be on the road. With such "great coverage" across the country from our national carrier, I'm expecting to do up loads every couple of days from where ever we can find access to the net.
One sleep to go!!
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