A first trip ‘round the world, part 23

As we drove along for many, many hours, stopping just to sleep in the minibus and grabb something to eat in the rare food places open along the way, we saw the road around us littered with dead kangaroos and wild pigs. 

The Nullarbor Plains are a unique and strange landscape to experience; it is said to be the largest piece of limestone on earth. 

This area gets its name from the latin 'nullus' (nothing) and 'arbor' (tree), to describe this mostly barren landscape devoid of tall trees, and instead features low-lying drought tolerant shrubs called saltbush and bluebush. 

We contributed our pocket money to buying gas and food for the three of us. I’m ashamed to say that I don’t even recall the name of our driver. He was such a sweet guy! 

When after three days of driving, just on Bastille Day, we got close to Adelaide at night, our driver was kind enough to drop us not far from the pier where our ship was still moored, waiting for us…

We were extremely lucky, we had just covered 2046 miles (3290 km) in record time and had made it safe and sound to our destination. With hindsight, this foolish endeavor could have been, much, much worse.