Traveling West.

Time passes.

Kilometers are driven.

Paths are walked.

Waterfalls and creeks and rock pools are discovered and leaped into and cooled off in and enjoyed.

We are getting braver.

One of us wants to be a climber when she grows up. Some of us have learnt to jump without testing the water. All of us love the feeling of the waterfall pounding the back of your neck.

I have lost track of time.

I cannot tell you how long we have been on the road, what day it is or what time it is back home.

I do not miss home. I do miss some of my special people sometimes.

For some reason bad news from home devastates me while good news seems dreamy and far away.

Mostly we eat cereal and sandwiches and barbecues. Apples and carrots and Vegemite crackers for snacks.

We have been bitten by one million bitey things. I was stung by a bee on the bum in the NT/WA quarantine station.

We love our Frankie Blue caravan. She really feels like home. I love the mixy-matchy sheets we cover up with at night. I am so pleased I made the effort to sew them up before we left.

We wear skirts and shorts and singlets and thongs and hats.

It is hot aired and bright blue skied every day.

We cannot imagine the cold, wintry, wet Daylesford days.

The girls are up and down and around and around. We have sticker charts for good behaviour on the caravan fridge and rewards are coming. They are happiest when we are busy and doing and learning, so we try to be. I think farmer Bren sometimes questions the wisdom of traveling half way around Australia with four girls.

Decisions are made. Sometimes changed, sometimes kept.

We have time.

We are heading West.

xx

ps. We are on The Design Files today. Yippee!!

A quick look around.

It's late afternoon/early evening here in Darwin town. It's that funny piece of time after swimming at the pool and before dinner. Everyone seems to be doing their own thing. I've had a little afternoon cocktail and am feeling a bit merry and thought I might show you around.

Just a quick tour. No cleaning up or styling. This is how it is right here and right now.

This is the spot in our caravan where I have been checking my emails and am about to sit down and write this blog. We have wireless internet so a few of us can be online at once which is great.

That bit of white tape on the far left is double sided velcro tape. Farmer Bren is obsessed with it. Everything is tidied and rolled and secured with the stuff.

Straight in front of me is the map of Australia with our route so far drawn up the middle. We've come a long way in five weeks. Is that Miss Jazzy eating Vegemite crackers outside the door? Why I think it is.

And there is Miss Indi. At last count she had 57 mosquito bites covering her and is incredible itchy. Hello Indi!!

There's my bunch of flower squares sitting waiting for me on the table. It's too hot here to think of making woolly clothing so I'm making granny squares instead.

The washing line. How cute is the caravan peg bag Miss Michelle made for me! Thanks for making it and sending it to me Michelle! Doing the laundry is so much more fun now.

Getting mail on the road has been such a thrill.

Oh and there's Farmer Bren giving our neighbour a lesson on how to set up her ipad.

A quick peek inside her van and look who we've found. Miss Pepper and her friend Christian. The truth is I heard these guys long before I saw them. They are a noisy bunch.

Twenty minutes after I wrote this, I was about to press publish, when I looked out the window and saw this. The start of a neighbourhood game of hide and seek.

Ready or not here I come...

Ok, time to put the barbecue on now. Tofu and salad wraps for dinner here. Indi and I have a date to play bingo at the bar later on.

I hope your week has started happily.

See ya!