Good-bye Karumba

Well after working in Karumba, both Mike and I were very ready to leave Karumba. After some discussions on how we were going to leave the place, we decided to buy a van off Av and Howie(some locals we met). They were lovely and had dinner with us before we left at the restaurant. Finally the morning came, I was very excited to be hitting the road again. I went off to say my good-byes to Margie and Cilla at the cafe/supermarket. I had only worked there for 2 weeks but grew close to them, they are good people. Then went to find Mike and say our final farewells to Mick, Sandy and Karumba Seafoods. It was a bit sad to go, but the work had run out, we were ready to go and the excitment of travelling in our own van was just to great. So we left Karumba with big smiles and cuddles. Margie threaten to put a road block to stop me leaving town, THANK GOD SHE DIDNT. 73km to Normanton, here we come... and we left it just as fast... In fact we drove all the way to Mt Isa the first day. The roads were tarseal but only one strip of tarseal(oneway) with the large strips of dirt on the sides so you can run off when you see a great big huge massive road train coming towards you. Believe me, you nearly shit yourself. But i'm glad to say you do get use to it. So off we went heading for Alice Springs...