Goodbye Toni…

In the beginning of the year, we had high hopes of finding an awesome, mad-max-style beast of a 4WD for less than 10000 dollars… Of course, after 2 weeks of disappointing test drives in outright dangerous vehicles, we decided we had to compromise and go for a smaller, more reliable car. All of a sudden,…

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Stuck in Broken Hill with a Flat Tyre

“Honey, I’m stuck at the racecourse… No, really!”, it sounds like a lame excuse a gambling addict might say, but in our case, it was actually true! After our small trip to Silverton and the Living Desert, we were heading into Broken Hill for a nice dinner, since we were saving so much cash by…

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All Geared Up!

It took us more than a week, but our ride is finally ready! Before coming to Australia, Tom spent hours on the laptop researching types of 4WD cars, which were good for backpacking, which fit into our budget, where to find them, etc. Basically, we pretty much knew every listing on Gumtree in a 100km…

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