So we've bought another bus - a donor bus. From Adelaide, the same bus as ours (well close). So Lola is staying with Nan and Pa visiting, Brad and I a doing a superquick flight to Adelaide to pick up the bus and drive it back as quick as we can (over a weekend I think). It will then be used as a motor swap to get us up and running again.

Fly in 15 July and a quick shop up to stock up on the the grog we can't get in Alice. We have enough on board to get us through anything we may encounter.

16 July Pee stop at Spud's Roadhouse in Pimba. A smidge over 500kms today, donor bus going great and an early stop for a little R&R at Glendambo

17 July on the road before sunrise. It's bloody cold and wet down south. A roadside cuppa stop and watch the sunrise and onward to Coober Pedy. Hello and goodbye Coober Pedy. Please install a burger shop before next we meet. I'm starving and that veg pastie did not cut it. 9 hours on the road, so glad we decided to stop in Marla and were able to receive your call Cookie! The donor bus is ticking along great just as you will be as you head up the Stuart Highway with your donor ticker just in time for Xmas. Love you, go gettum, see ya soon xxxxxxx

18 July Back home at Ross River

All this talk of a donor bus and a motor transplant is actually representative of someone very near and dear to us who is finally undergoing a long awaited heart transplant. He and his wife and kids have had their lives on hold for a very long time, waiting, waiting, waiting. I urge all of our bookface friends out there to DO SOMETHING GREAT WITH YOUR LIFE and get yourself on the donor registry RIGHT NOW - http://www.humanservices.gov.au/…/australian-organ-donor-re… Someone special has sadly passed but they did something great with their life by giving life to others. So while we wait for news of the transplant process sending all of our love to a very special young man, we encourage everyone to make the next persons wait for a new life much shorter. Xxxxxxx