Us on the road from heading South from Warburton Mission, WA B3R56-45

Stop for lunch, not sure now if this was on the way, or on the way back..check! edit, was on the way back to Leonora past Cosmo Newberry and the "Sons of Gwalia" ruins, we left John Arnold and his party somewhere, check trip notes.. We actually stayed in touch all the way to Coolgardie, even south of Malcolm, then a last breakfast in Coolgardie before we headed East across the Nullarbor, Kyancutta, to Port Augusta, a camp in Pichi Richi Pass the Flinders, to relatives in Adelaide and Victor Harbour, Mt Gambier, Melbourne, Bombala, Sydney, 5th Aug. and to my new job at the BMR in Canberra.. In Dandenong, we passed a VW dealer and popped in to see the new 1600 Kombi, they would only offer us $1600. They had been selling our model for $2,000 for months to get rid of them! We had paid $2,490 at the end of January 1968, and then started the long saga of warranty work and repairs, from the handbrake button sticking before the first 300mi service, a muffler pipe rattling on the body... rego #UCH715 ... I still had my long pyjama pants on, against the cold!! And lazy. The road later became part of "The Outback Way", or "Australia's Longest Shortcut" Or on p161 of my knew free HEMA Australia Road & 4WD Atlas, 2017, in part exchange for the use of a couple of remote outback images... Great Central Highway An excellent General atlas at usable scales, huge index showing most things the traveller needs. But you always need three sets of maps and some free local maps from the local Information centre, like the NSW Cartoscope ones.. www.flickr.com/photos/spelio/6937178803/ A Selfie, taken before the term was invented! With the #KombiSplity behind the camera on the tripod! After passing through Warburton again at 9350, we camped at 9436. Next day, Fri 12th July, we had lunch at 9564.. in Cosmo Newberry area, North of Yeo Lake on the Anne Beadell Highway which I traversed with the WAGS heading west in 1965... see #gswanullarbor An early part of our #roundaustraliawithspelio travels… The Woolstar Exercise book we used for the diary has Mary writing.. We stopped at 10:50 for John to try and contact Alice Springs on the radio again. No reception at all. At 12:20 we stopped for lunch at a water hole , Beegull Waterholes see C9 map 205 in the HEMA , GDT we had no maps except maybe a 1 Inch = 10 miles Topo 1:633600 Mapping Branch, Department of Lands and Surveys, Perth WA 1955 ones that I still have. We looked at some caves here with some paintings! "We got to Laverton at 4:45 speedo 9707. We sang for nearly two hours - so hoarse when we got here!" We got petrol ($3-09 eggs 80c doz.! and $1.20 worth of beautiful thick steak! We camped 5mi out of Laverton, next day, Sat 13th July the diary goes on.. we turned south at Malcolm, ( I had forgotten this, 21/03/19) and followed the rail to where we crossed a creek . Stopped and picked some wildflowers "Bill found what he thinks is a big tektite, just on the side of the road. on again at 1:30 speedo 9772" . ( we still book stops and speedo readings in all our vehicles) I have the slide numbers of each photo we took in the notes.. I could go on editing these notes for ever as people view them and comment on the stories.. On the ABC Local ..666 this am.... ABC Radio are running a program on getting your life back? Moments in your life that were relaxing moments out of the rat race where you were " In the moment" rather than rushing and absorbed in a career or running a family, dashing to work, taking the kids to sport or filling up the car. I thought of all the 1/125th sec moments at f5.6 that I have in my photo collection I could select some of my 37,000 images for an album of "Moments in Life" then realised that 95% or so would be suitable. (as at 02/19) At least all in my "Faves by others" would be suitable, www.flickr.com/photos/spelio/albums/72157624181511314