Sweet Home Cunnamulla

I'm back now in cunnamulla after a month long holidays around Australia with Carlotta. We went all around and spent time in every state in Australia. Our time in Perth was really good. I loved Western Australia. It is very chill there, Fremantle was my favorite spot to go hang out. The vibe there was very chill and reminded me a bit of Minneapolis. While in Perth we decided to rent a car for 3 days and drive around and explore more of WA. The benefits of being old finally paid off when I was able to get a good deal on a rental car. We ended up driving around a white Toyota Yaris which we called Mickey Jr after our campervan. It was a manual car as well and took me a little while to get used to because he was much more sensitive than our campervan. I made it out of Perth and we headed south straight away to a town called Carlotta that happened to be a sign on the side of the road with "Carlotta farm" on it... What a disappointment. Not knowing what to do next we just kept driving till we found a spot that looked good in a town called Yallingup on the coast just north of Margaret River. Our other two nights we spent up north of Perth near Cervantes. We spent Valentines Day morning at the pinnacle dessert at Nambung National Forrest. It was very cool and there were also white sand dunes along the drive to the pinnacles that looked like icebergs from far away. After our time with Mickey Jr. we had just a day in Perth to relax before our next stop in Alice Springs. We hung out and slept/read in the park all day.

Alice Springs was our last stop on our holidays. We went on a camping trip once we arrived for 3 days. It was so fun, we went to kings canyon on our first day and did a hike there. That night we camped in the middle of nowhere bush just off the side of the road. We had a bonfire from some firewood we collected from old burnt trees off the side of the road. We slept in swags under all the stars around the fire that night, it was so cool and the temperature at night was perfect. It cooled off quite a bit. The next two days we spent touring Kata Tjuta and Uluru. On our way home to Alice Springs we stopped at a racing camel farm and got to ride on old racing camels... It was so fun!
The rest of our days in Alice we spent walking around town, seeing what the go is and buying some souvenirs with the rest of our money we had left.

It took us two days to get home to cunnamulla from Alice Springs. We had to fly back to Brisbane on Saturday and spend the night at a hostel there then take the Sunday bus first thing in the morning to cunamulla that takes all day - 12 hours. Bob and Deli showed up at the bus for us in cunnamulla to pick us up at 8pm. We were both sooo happy to see them! They gave had waited to eat tea with us because they knew we'd be hungry. It feels so good to be home in cunnamulla. Carlotta and I took Madison (Deli's one year old granddaughter) for a walk around town the other day and saw a lot of locals around town that stopped to say hi to us and see how we were going. It was good to see all the locals around in the pub as well. We only have a week here which is too short. We're going to be leaving here on Saturday morning to head back to Brisbane which is where we fly out of on Sunday. Both our flights are within a couple hours of each other... It'll be difficult to leave this town, Bob and Deli have been so good to us here. Hopefully we can come back someday to see them again!


"If you girls don't come back to Australia to visit me before I'm dead then my ghost will come down and haunt you bitches!" -Deli