Another road trip, bound for Alice Springs

Yep, good-bye Karumba, we were on our way. As we drove the 500km (approx) to Mt Isa, without a word of a lie I can tell you we passed around about 50 cars, every single one of them waving at us. You see, on these roads you can drive for miles and miles and not turn or see anyone. So if you come to a turn(slight bend in the road) everybody is watching intently to see if you have seen that the road has a bend in it. And you find yourself up hard against the window waving at the car coming towards you, just for the company, knowing that you ARE sharing this long lonely stretch of road with some one. There are many towns on the way(every couple of hours) and what we found out about these is that they are usually one building with a gas pump. Yep thats it. No houses, no community, no nothing. The petrol gets more expensive the closer to Alice you get. We started buying at $1.28 a litre and by the time we reached Alice it was up to $1.60 a litre. But we did have a great time, we crossed over the border into Northern Territory. Stopped and took a couple of photos of that. That was when we got to learn about the flies, thousands of them. And we stopped for a night at 'The Devils Marbles', this was fantastic. We joined some other travellers there, made a fire and sat around drinking and playing guitar. It was great. Mirriam and Mika(dutch) were traveling together, heading north. Petra(dutch) was traveling by herself, she had a map of australia painted on the front of her car showing where she had been. And Al, he was Italian, and i have no idea where he was going. And another german couple joined us for a short time as well. It was a great night. I saw my first dingo on the way to Alice as well. Minding its own business jogging along the road. We stopped at a petrol station/roadhouse called wycliffe well, and it was decorated up like a UFO. We also stopped in at Tennant Creek and had a look at the info centre, it is a gold mining town like Waihi. We stayed at Ti-Tree the night, and had the most wonderful shower ever(well it felt like it). We stopped at the Tropic of Caporicorn, more photos. And then finally made it to Alice. Yeah!!! But before we settle in here, we are off to 'The Rock'. It has to be done. So wish us luck.