(Kate)
We set an alarm for 6:30am (yuk!) to make sure we were on the road at a decent hour for the epic drive to Longreach today. There were a few showers of rain overnight, and during breakfast, and during camp packup, but they weren't too heavy, and we're not about to begrudge outback QLD some rain.
We were on the road by 9ish, and driving on more single-lane bitumen. We can see why road trains get right of way on these type of roads, as the edges are quite slushy. We ended up joining a convoy of 10 cars towing vans for most of the trip.
We stopped in Jundah for lunch, and it was delicious. Cholesterol levels were strictly ignored.
We arrived in Longreach at about 4:30 and all our mobiles went crazy, ping ping ping with notifications from the last couple of days. It was actually pretty nice to be unplugged for a couple of days there. We had initially planned to stay here, but both the QANTAS museum and the Stockman's Hall of Fame were completely booked out, being QLD school holidays. Also both the local caravan parks had been given bad reviews by multiple users on Wikicamps, so we drove on and camped at a rest stop 27km north, that was listed as being suitable for tents and had good reviews. Again showers of rain throughout the evening.
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