On the Road

We woke up with this for a view which was nice:

We hit the road at about 9:30 and went in search for some tucker. We found a little deli place and had a pretty hearty breakfast before heading on north. The drive was pretty scenic but it took us a hell of a lot longer than we anticipated. This was not helped by the stupid roadworks. It seemed that they would close a 5km section of the road to do works in about 10m of it. We had to wait for a pilot vehicle to escort us through the danger zone. We honestly couldn't see anything wrong with the rest of the road, weird.

Along the way we found some tree that you could supposedly drive through so we decided to give it a whirl with the giant van. It was pretty funny that the person at the gate was like "Its 7ft by 6 1/2" so I dunno if you'll fit. Give it a try though!". We drove up to it and it became apparent that the van was gonna be way too tall, and probably a bit fat too:

It was pretty close though and there was a few people that were hoping we would give it a go, thats what insurance is for right? I suggested maybe getting a bit of a run up but Blair and Kylie didn't think that was going to end well. We took a few photos and carried on our merry way.

At about 6pm we found a supermarket and went to get supplies. The supermarket layout was a bit crazy and we didn't have a list or any idea what we were going to eat so we think we did pretty well and got 2 dinners, 2 lunches and 3 breakfasts worth of food. Plus a gallon of rum and a box of beer for good measure. We optimised for non-perishable food so that we could fit the beer in the fridge, priorities! Only cost $110 all up. We had about another hour of driving to get to the Elk Prairie Campground in the Redwoods National Park. Along the way we saw a couple of deer just chilling out on the road, thinking about whether they should run into the lights that were barrelling up the road. Stupid deer.

For dinner we had snags and a big ole vat of potato salad. We were pretty stoked with ourselves for crearting food. We also bought a sneaky slab of brownie for pudding and had a few beers while we talked a lot of shit before we hit the hay.