Once I arrived in Adelaide I had an empty car, so up to 4 spots to try and fill with only around 24 hours to do so. I was a little stressed at first that I wouldn’t find anyone to go. Fortunately things worked out quite well. I’d posted an advertisement on Gumtree whilst in Alice Springs. Gumtree is a website where you can advertise pretty much anything – and finding people who want to head to places on here is often easier than finding people with similar plans in the hostels on such short notice. I had quite a lot of people show interest, but as I was out of reception for so long, most had made other plans by the time I got to Adelaide. I only had 1 person firmly interested. I met up with a German chap but he had about $150 left and was never going to blow most of it on getting to Melbourne – he needed to find a job really! I followed up on some other postings online and found two German girls (Alex & Roxy) who were interested and arranged to meet them and Emma a Scottish girl the following day.
After Fiji I made my way upto the Northern Territory in Australia. An overnight stop on the way was enforced after Qantas changed my flights about – luckily they switched them to the day after my flight from Fiji rather than the morning of my flight from Fiji when I’d still be in Fiji! After making it to Darwin I didn’t know how, but I knew what I wanted to do – Go straight down the middle of Australia. I’d done some research into some tours and looked up the cost of buses etc, but none of it made much sense. The cost was high – like £1000 for 2 weeks, if not more. And the ability to do exactly what you wanted was somewhat limited.
Cities I’ve Visited