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AUSTRALIA | Tuesday, 8 Apr 2008 | Views [595] | Comments [3]
And as all good things must come to an end, our time has come to say a final goodbye to our beloved World Nomad Ambassador Van. It's not difficult to become attached to what has not only been a mode of transport, taking us almost entirely around ... Read more >
Tags: ambassador van, hussy hicks
AUSTRALIA | Tuesday, 25 Mar 2008 | Views [526] | Comments [1]
We rocked up to the Spectacular Croc Jumping tour mid morning just as a football team of teenage boys headed out on their cruise. We decided to give that boat a miss and wait til the next one so we occupied ourselves by playing with the beautiful pythons ... Read more >
Tags: spectacular croc jumping, adelaide river, darwin, ambassador van
AUSTRALIA | Monday, 24 Mar 2008 | Views [306] | Comments [1]
After cooling our selves in the croc infested water of Edith Falls we hit the road for Darwin, stopping in at the Adelaide River Inn for a bite when it got to dinner o’clock. The Adelaide River Inn is famous for its Barra and Chips and for its enormous ... Read more >
Tags: darwin, ambassador van
AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 22 Mar 2008 | Views [838]
As we drove out of Katherine we felt a desire to find a good swimming hole, since we’d been taunted by hellishly hot weather and plenty of inviting looking water that we couldn’t (absolutely not… under no circumstances… don’t even think about it) swim ... Read more >
Tags: edith falls, ambassador van, lonely planet
AUSTRALIA | Friday, 21 Mar 2008 | Views [349]
Before completely leaving the Kimberley behind I have to mention my little washing day incident. It had been a few weeks since we’d managed to find time to wash our clothes so I had about 3 loads of washing to get through in Kununurra and whilst loading ... Read more >
Tags: northern territory, ambassador van, katherine, katherine gorge
AUSTRALIA | Wednesday, 19 Mar 2008 | Views [379]
So our next show was on Thursday night in Katherine. We’d booked this one in with Pete who took a lot of convincing that it would be a good idea. Because it was still wet season Pete kept telling us that if it kept raining we wouldn’t be able to get ... Read more >
Tags: lake argyle, timber creek, snakes, katherine, ambassador van
AUSTRALIA | Wednesday, 19 Mar 2008 | Views [1636]
Our first trip to Kununurra definitely left us wanting more… specifically more in the way of four wheel drive capabilities, because the locals all kept telling us of amazing springs and waterfalls and great little get away spots but unfortunately all ... Read more >
Tags: molly springs, waterfalls, kununurra, ambassador van, kimberley
AUSTRALIA | Sunday, 16 Mar 2008 | Views [430]
So we got a bit of an inkling that there might have been some confusion when the security guard in Fitzroy Crossing said "Hey aren't you playing in Halls Creek tonight, it’s written out front of the pub." In a bit of a panic I ... Read more >
Tags: ambassador van, outback, halls creek, kununurra, crocodile
AUSTRALIA | Friday, 14 Mar 2008 | Views [476]
We made the most of our last 5 star morning and ate an enormous breaky in the restaurant before packing up our gear and hitting the road. We wanted to drop in and see Cowboy before leaving and our temperamental air-conditioning belt had started screeching ... Read more >
Tags: ambassador van, outback, mine, boab tree, crossing inn
AUSTRALIA | Sunday, 9 Mar 2008 | Views [669] | Comments [4]
Broome is a great little town. It's also very hot at this time of the year... so I have to admit straight up that we spent most of our days in Broome chilling out in our very plush very air-conditioned resort! In our defence we had spent a month in ... Read more >
Tags: hussy hicks, outback, fitzroy crossing, ambassador van
AUSTRALIA | Thursday, 6 Mar 2008 | Views [312] | Comments [2]
So it’s become apparent that we’ve undertaken a bit of a task with this drive to Broome. Everyone we mentioned it to at Nannup looked at us as if they thought we had gone completely mad… usually the conversation goes something like this: Random ... Read more >
Tags: on the road, broome, ambassador van
AUSTRALIA | Sunday, 2 Mar 2008 | Views [395]
Nannup Festival was our next destination, we had been given 3 shows on different stages over the 2 days and wanted to get in to town by Friday night when it all kicked off to get into the festival spirit and catch up with some friends. We had coffee ... Read more >
Tags: party time, ambassador van
AUSTRALIA | Thursday, 28 Feb 2008 | Views [234]
We headed south bright and early the next morning as we had a radio interview with Glynn Greensmith on ABC state wide and wanted to get in a good afternoon of wine tasting in Margaret River but alas on the way down the highway was closed due to a ... Read more >
Tags: on the road, ambassador van
AUSTRALIA | Thursday, 28 Feb 2008 | Views [319]
We've been a little behind on our Lonely Planet moments so I'm going back to recap a couple ... Feb 28th we decided to meet up with our mates Oops and Jodie to check out the Fremantle Roundhouse and say our farewells before heading south. Our mates ... Read more >
Tags: lonely planet great guidebook moment, ambassador van
AUSTRALIA | Wednesday, 27 Feb 2008 | Views [310]
Dear HH blog readers, I sincerely apologise for our tardiness in keeping the travel stories up to date, but I assure you we’ve been gathering lots of good material and I’m sure it will have been worth the wait! I last left you with tales of strange ... Read more >
Tags: party time, ambassador van
AUSTRALIA | Wednesday, 27 Feb 2008 | Views [353] | Comments [1]
We got to the Denmark Tavern in the afternoon and had a leisurely sound check with our PA guy Andi (check out www.andimaps.com.au) while sipping on some great local chardonnay and then tucking into an amazing meal before going to our campground to ... Read more >
Tags: on the road, ambassador van, hussy hicks
AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 23 Feb 2008 | Views [339] | Comments [1]
We woke up in Cocklebiddy bright and early and as tempted as we were to luxuriate in the towns plentiful facilities we hit the road for another full day of driving. We had a radio interview booked in for 4pm and by golly we were going to make it! ... Read more >
Tags: on the road, ambassador van, hussy hicks
AUSTRALIA | Wednesday, 20 Feb 2008 | Views [407] | Video
We woke up to the sounds of the caravan park maintenance man hammering something loudly next to our van and left Streaky Bay without even partaking in our morning coffee ritual. We drove on to Smoky Bay, a gorgeous little oyster village and stopped ... Read more >
Tags: on the road, ambassador van, hussy hicks, nullabor plains
AUSTRALIA | Tuesday, 19 Feb 2008 | Views [214]
After waking up in our flash hotel we were feeling a little hoity toity. Only one thing for it – fine wine, so off to the Barossa we go! Knowing that it’s always best to check out a new area with a local we entrusted our mate Todd to act as tour guide ... Read more >
Tags: on the road, ambassador van
AUSTRALIA | Monday, 18 Feb 2008 | Views [382]
We left our funky little pad and headed eagerly back to the oyster shed up the road… thankfully the 36 hours had ended and Julz purchased 20 oysters (freshly shucked of course) for only 8 bucks. The day had started well! Today’s mission was to head ... Read more >
Tags: on the road, ambassador van, hussy hicks
AUSTRALIA | Friday, 15 Feb 2008 | Views [391] | Video
Day 2 Canberra - Batemans Bay We woke to the bip bib bib bib BIP BIP BIP!! BIP!!! BEEP!!!!!! of a nokia phone alarm and jumped in the front of the van to race our friend Dana to the airport. All should have been well but for some reason, although ... Read more >
Tags: on the road, ambassador van, oysters, hussy hicks
AUSTRALIA | Thursday, 14 Feb 2008 | Views [254] | Comments [2]
Day 1 - 14 feb - syd canberra Life is like a Willie Nelson song - "like a band of gypsies we roll down the highway" not to mention "the life I love is making music with my friends" so here we are "On the road again". ... Read more >
Tags: on the road, ambassador van, hussy hicks
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