The truck has been in dry dock for three weeks; opened up inside Crawfords warehouse for maintenance. Apart from the electrics, the mobile bar is built with heavy wood and solid steel or a combination of both. Repairs and upgrades are complete. Cleaning and packing began yesterday morning. A day and a half to close up the truck – longer than usual due to double-checks and last minute spot-welds. Ben hauls the truck, named the XXXX GOLD Retreat, out of the warehouse and we head for Mildura.
The first event is the Finke Desert Race just outside Alice Springs. The truck has to be there by Wednesday so we’ll have to drive with precision timing if we want to have a sight-see of Ayers Rock, Uluru, on the way.
We stop in Swan Hill for dinner – the fish burgers were not burgers as such, more a foot-long bun filled with a prize-winning snapper, a whole lettuce and 2 tomatoes. Manu and Ben’s minimum chips would have solved the potato famine. I am now judging this trip on the meaning of ‘minimum’…
Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.
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