​Wounded in action - 16 September 2017

Another sunset! This time we're parked on the side of the road between Fitzroy Crossing and Halls Creek waiting for a tow truck. Broken bl ..... caravan axel! Wouldn't you know it. That's the way of 'the way' eh!? The old girl - the van - has travelled over 20,000km this trip; not bad.

we were close to going over the edge - scary thought!

My faith in the basic goodness of people was reinforced - again. We had so many offers of help as we were crouched on the side of the highway 100km back to Fitzroy Crossing one way and 200km to Halls Creek the other. Three carloads of people helped get the van to the side of the road and cut the wheel free - it looked like a big sad broken leg sticky out the side of the van. A couple took Lindsay back into Fitzroy Crossing and another couple drove him back to our rig some 4 hours later where I was 'standing' guard over our precious rig (a little on edge 'our there' alone!).

Lindsay was operating the lifty thingo.

The tow truck arrived a couple of hours later. Angelo the driver, was a sweetie and very patient. I forget that to the world we look like oldies! People are so kind and caring. It's lovely. Thanks to RAC (and the extra cover we took out), towing was taken care of and we have a motel room. We're perfectly together albeit with unexpected time to kill until!
A few days later we were back on the road to Kununarra, Hall's Creek didn't have the expertise.

Looks a bit down in the heel one side!

You know the saying - what goes round etc?  well as fate would have it once we were on the road and heading back east. That very same day we stopped to help a young German couple who had a flat but no way of getting the wheel nit unlocked - neither did we  They spent over half hour on our sat phone to RAC - all standing around in the stinking heat. Unfortunately in the end we ran out of battery so they opted to wait for a passing car going back to Kununurra - we were 150 Km out. They wont forget their trip to the top end!