Typical Day on the Road - Outback Style

I've been wanting to write this for awhile but just haven't been able to find the time or the internet connection.... Here's a typical day on the road in the outback as seen through my eyes... The names have been changed to protect the innocent.................
     The Outback - A typical day on the road.....
 One of us (the one that doesn't rhyme with - me) gets up at some unbelievably ridiculous hour and gathers his toiletries and heads out of the van (motorhome) and heads for the shower.... The other one (the one that does rhyme with - me) rolls over and relishes all the space she never had in the 3/4 size, overhead and cramped, cement like cushions posing as a mattress bed, and wonders how long she can get away with another few minutes before she'll have to get up and get her own butt in gear for the day..... Bloody hell, do I really have to wait until I'm 80 before I can get some sleep???.......
Then she does eventually get up, and packs her own toiletries bag and puts on her flip flops and reluctantly heads out the door to the showers, and passes the man who had the nerve of waking her up so damn early, on his way back from the showers.... She showers and tries not to look around too much in fear of noticing any frogs on the tops of the separating walls or spiders in the corners or beetles on the floors or other people's hair on places and things she has to touch.... She has a thing about other people's hair and it's really starting to get on her nerves..... lol
 She finishes her shower and heads back to the van and finds tea and brekky all made and waiting for her... So nice..... Fresh fruit after brushing your teeth.... Not so yummy......
Anyway, he drives for the first hour or so, blah blah blah, and then it's her turn..... Yay!!!!!
 She gets behind the wheel, and it's all normal now... The driving on the left side of the road... Even the standard gears on the wrong side of the 'car' are normal now... It all seems like it's a road trip in your own country but it's just a part that you haven't been to before.... It's long days in the outback and we have to take turns.... He does most of the driving but he still needs a break... So now is my chance to just enjoy the whole thing for myself....
He needs a nap now, so he gets his pillow, and he punches it, and he prods it, and he fluffs it and puffs it into just the right shape... And just in the nick of time too cuz if he fussed with it for just one more second you'd be tempted to toss him out the damn door... "I'm trying to drive here, ok?" ;-P
'And oh ya honey, make sure you lock your door'.........
So now he's resting quietly and you have the whole road and the whole country and the whole world to yourself.... It's beautiful.... You have some classical music playing and the road is very quiet because you are literally in the middle of nowhere, and it's still sort of early in the morning.... The outback is not flat like flat flat.... It is flat and rolling, and flat and fields, and there are random trees and fences and shrubs and scrubby trees, and creeks and floodways, lots of floodways, and billabongs and man made reservoirs... The landscape is the same but yet it changes every few miles.... There is always something new and different to see... It is wonderful and it is all yours to yourself.... As long as he's sleeping.... You are woman and you are driving in this great land down under and this is your life long dream, you are so happy and you can't even believe you are even doing this.... It is all so incredible.... So fantastic....
You watch the road for anything that looks like it shouldn't be there.... You don't want to run over anything... After all, you've come here to see and appreciate the wildlife, even the nasty things, not to kill it... So you look for and watch any black or dark shapes on the road ahead, you wait for it to move and hope it doesn't... You don't want to have to swerve to miss it and then by accident hit it by trying to miss it... And when you get to the shape, are thankful that it is just a tar repair mark, or a shredded truck tire, or a stick.. Then you see a  really cool Perentie lizard, or bearded lizard and say, wow!!! so cool!!!..... And then a Dingo crosses the road about 50 yards in front of you and you are again, in awe of this land...
You drive like you own the place and are so thankful to be here and doing this.... It is such a great experience and you're just so much in awe of the land..... It is truly a beautiful country....
 And then, sleeping beauty wakes up and it all fizzles away and you have to come back down to earth..... But you get to share it with him and it's all still great and wonderful......
And that is pretty much how the long days on the road in the outback went... So fantastic... I will never forget... They will always be cherished....
And I share them with all the women who read this.... xoxo