On the Road Again...

So Murray Bridge has come and gone. We headed out of the Avoca Dell Caravan Park ready to get this trek moving.  We had a slow start as we noticed a couple weeks ago our rego for the caravan had expired back in August 2009. As such we had to go to the Murray Bridge Police station to get a police check then off to the RTA for new plates and rego sticker. We noticed we'd forgotten to drop the keys for the toilets off at the Caravan park so had to go back to do so, then check the tire pressures, fill the fuel tank, pick up the remnants of our Giant bike from the cycle shop and check the pool for Aidan's lost croc shoes - oh the joys of travelling. While checking the tires I seemed to be getting nowhere topping them up - the pressure just would not seem to increase - if anything the pressures seemed to be getting lower. 10 minutes later ... ah! The air was turned to the off position! Minutes later we were off an running - without shoes for Aidan though - they have appeared to disappear or perhaps spontaneously combust as kid's things tend to do sometimes (I'm sure I was the same when I was a kid...how many sets of retainers did I go through?). We took the most direct route which took us back through the Barossa Valley and Angaston where we stopped for lunch. A local boutique cheesery (fromagier) helped add a bit of local flavour to our Cruskits and wholemeal bread with chocolate-covered figs for dessert - mmm. With many kms to go we headed out to the Flinders Ranges past the big Miner and Clare Valley. At Jamestown we stopped for fuel and were told it was another 3-4 hours drive - it was already 4 pm!! A quick reference with the Goog ( short for Guggenheimer - the google map program on my Iphone) and with Fi (our car GPS) and we decided our friend was very out to lunch and sadly must not have ever left his small shanty town for the hills as it was only another 150kms! We managed to roll into the Wilpena Pound resort around 6:30 pm and settled into some tucker shortly thereafter. It's a beautiful little enclave with hardly any other campers - so naturally we were placed right next to another couple - oodles of empty spots wherever you look - such is life. A feast of ravoli was had and we crashed into our beds ready for a big day of exploring in the morning.