Second day to Burke & Wills

Our second day is not quite so impressive. By the time we'd finished eating our celebratory pancakes last night it was 11pm which meant there was no chance we'd be leaving at 4:30am. In the end we had a nice sleep in and left about 8am. It was funny to wake up and find we were sleeping just a few metres from the highway. But in the mornings and evenings we only see one or two cars an hour so they didn't wake us up.

Instead of belting through 70km happily before lunch as we traditionally do (once at least), we struggled through 40km. Nut snack stops at least every 5km or it really wouldn't be manageable.


We managed to lose our lunch time rest stop entirely. We're still not sure where it went. But luckily we found a lovely clump of trees in an otherwise barren stretch of road. We had a bit of a fire and cooked up some chapatis. We had them with some hot (hardly) mango chutney we found at Stop Shop in Normanton. What a treat it was.


This was also where we ran out of soy milk so no more cappuccinos for us (or me). I'll have to struggle by on short blacks only for the next two days. Fortunately we found water at one rest stop so I can now wash the percolator between bliss times.

Alice likes riding 10 today and I like it 8.