North by Northwest

Took the B64 through more lovely countryside on Friday. We stopped in Burra for a potty break, and Shawn took the opportunity to do some yoga stretches at the rest area.

New pants and "thongs"

Best Highway Name (for a road NOT taken!)

We had decided to avoid driving into Adelaide, and instead maybe try to find a place near the ocean before heading north into the interior for the next big chunk of the trip. The scenery was still relatively dry and Mediterranean-- we had only seen a couple drops of rain since leaving Brunswick heads! 

Very Australian trees

Clearing sky

We passed a beachside caravan park in Port Pirie, but decided to press on to Port Augusta. Which, in hindsight may have been a mistake. Port Augusta is, as the name would imply, a port city. We could not find a "beach" park anywhere, so ended up at a regular park. This place had the nicest camp kitchen we had ever seen, complete with dishes and cookware as well as gas range, fridge and kettle. There was a grocery store a few blocks' walk up the road, so we  grabbed shopping bags and went for supplies. Since we could actually cook, we got eggs and sausages and veggies and some wonderful Australian yogurt, RyeVita crackers, avocados and some other munchie type foods for the road. We had a lovely dinner, the first time I had really cooked in ages.

As it turns out, there was a theater in town, showing The Avengers. Shawn really wanted to see it, so we went. It was a small cinema in a small town, but bigger than many of the places we'd been. It was funny as we sat in the lobby waiting for the theater to open, most of the people who came in seemed to know each other. Also, overweight, oddly-dressed teenagers are not strictly a U.S. phenomenon. The movie was fun!

We did a load of laundry and had showers and I made scrambled eggs with leftover chicken sausages for breakfast. I boiled the rest of the eggs, in case cooking facilities would be limited on our next stops. We froze a few water bottles and made a sort of makeshift cooler with the two plastic tubs we had acquired...food and ice in the inner one, and a couple more bottles in the outer one covered with towels and the rescued wool blanket from Zaytuna. (It worked so well, we used it for the rest of the trip!) 

We were well rested and well fortified with supplies when we headed out at 10 on Saturday morning.