The Nullarboor crossing didn't go exactly as planned.
Plan: Take it slow, stop and smell all the hidden roses (so to speak) and stop before the border and cook up the piles of fresh fruit and veg we have on board.
Reality: I was very unwell, sleeping all the time and having a lot of trouble walking. We stopped overnight at the Great Australian Bight and the next morning I woke covered in a rash from head to toe and could not get out of bed.
So straight off to Eucla in attempt to seek medical assitance, through the fruit and veg inspection point much quicker than planned disposing of piles of good food, get to Eucla and get the local nurse out of bed. After discussion with the flying doctor, Ross River Virus is suspected, so straight off to Kalgoorlie Hospital is the recommendation. Fine, except just before hitting the border we lost a wheel on the trailer as a result of a broken axel. So we limped the bus/trailer into Eucla and parked up there trying to organise a new trailer axel.
Of all places to break down. So as it was near impossible to get an axel to Eucla, we had to stay in Eucla until I was well enough to drive the car behind bus as there was no way we could tow the car on the broken trailer. So about a week later, I then drove the car the rest of the Nullarboor behind the bus over several days (gradually increasing the number of hours I could drive for) and off to Kalgoorlie where we are having a new axel shipped to.
Fun and games, life's on the bus is not always a box of chocolates.
