Adelaide SA

Thank you so much to Brian and Angela Stebbing of Namaste Restaurant for the divine food and brilliant night.

Highwway One Caravan Park, Paralowie put us up and it was good

Paralowie Caltex filled us with 40 litres of fuel

MacDonalds fed us

Thank you to Campbell Brodie and Jessica Leo of the Adelaide Advertiser for covering our story.

Thanks to Matt at Caltex Port Wakefield for the coffees and pies

Good on yer John at Sunnies Backpackers on Franklin St for the two nights accommodation, saw no reason not to help and we were grateful for that

Thanks to Kathmandu Nepalese Restaurant on Hutt St for the delicious meal

Gentlemanly and friendly, the guys, Chris, Phil and Chris at Print Solutions, Giles St, for printing for us 500 flyers we thank unreservedly.

To Gary and Barry and Belinda at the Travellers Inn on Hutt St we cannot but utter words of thanks for putting us up for a week-an-a-bit and for giving us access to the internet and phones but humbly grovel an intricate haiku of unending beauty to their munificence. We're still writing it though.

Smokin' Joe's sandwiches we ate, and tasty too, but the taste of them. Thanks fella.

Thanks to Adelaide Coffee Bar, on King William St for the coffee.

Thank you Kyrikos Vithoulkas @ Piatto Cafe Restaurnt Rundle street

Nice one to Bass and Beth at the Falafel Stop

Hunger shooed away for another day due to the Botanic Garden Kiosk, thanks.

Thanks for the flu relieving soup from the Organic Cafe in Adelaide city centre

Thanks Rio Coffee for the elevenses and take away bread and fruit.

Thanks to MArk at Un Caffe Bar for the sandwiches



Thanks to vodafone Australia Foundation for the phone credit

Thanks to Beau, IGA Hutt Street for the phone credit

A big thanks to Hajime Nijima of the Adelaide Technical Service, Level 2 163 Halifax street for dropping everything and giving my camera a good service, cleaning the sensor and the lenses. Thank you thank you.

Thanks to Trent at the General Havelock Hotel for the meal

Ta to Blue Lemon big baguette bar for the sandwich and coffes.

We courteously bow and thank the Golden Dragon Restaurant, on Hutt St for the takeaway rice.

Thanks too the Hudson's Coffee lot on Hutt St for the goodies and nicelies.

Praising Mike and Evan at Gloria Jeans, in the Rundle Mall for the coffee's and cakes.

Thank you Cafe Michael 2 Authentic Thai on Rundle Street for the tasty thai green curry and noodles.

Thank you for the fried rice Maple Huse Asian Restaurant, North Adelaide Village

Nice one Peter of ABC Adelaide for the can and book donations and for having us in your studio

Adelaide state library for allowing us internet access. The general public can get free internet for 30 minutes a day.

Frank Liu, 21 Hindley st Adelaide Hotpot for the meal, cheers mate

Thank you to my sister Paula Race for the phone credit !

Thanks for Marina Tanaka for her offers to help that came to us months and months prior to us landing in Adelaide.

And we got a lot of Mail in Adelaide!
Cheers Barry Wroth of Esperance for the parcel of laminated newspaper articles of us.
Thank you Lesley Pinder for the sports bra (a long needed item) and Book Aid reading material.

Thank you to the Clinique counter Myer Adelaide for the sample

Thanks 33 on East for the coffees, bread and bananas

Thanks MAx Zollo of Al Fresco East end for the sandwiches

Thanks too to the ANZAC Day Diggers.

Nice one Tanya Hanckel at the Organic Barn

Thank you to Tailem Bend Old Pioneer Town, for donating a tour round to us. A very interesting place.

Wudinna, Kyancutta and Port Augusta SA

Thank you Kyancutta general store and fuel station for the fuel donation

Thank to Ellen of Wudinna Golden Wattle Roadhouse for the fuel

Thanks to Raandall and Selina Hodge at the Shoreline Caravan Park, Gardiner Avenue, for the nights stay

Thanks to Tim, Meg, Jess, Marie, Merv, and Steven at the Caltex for the $50 fuel card

Thanks to Subway for the sandwiches, or whatever it is you call those things, subs, or whatever, but, they are tasty, so it's not really important is it.

Thanks to the Tin Man Roadhouse, Port Pirie, for the coffees and cakes

Along the Nullarbor SA

'Welcome to South Australia' said Paul Crawford at the Border Village Roadhouse as he filled our tank for us and fed us too.

Thanks to the Nullarbor Roadhouse for the camp the brekkie, and the only wild dingoes we've seen so far

To Penang Roadhouse we say thankyouverymuch in an Elvis style because, well, the guy was that cool wasn't he, and these people deserve to be flattered by association

Smoky Bay Caravan Park. They squeezed us in besides the ladies toilets on the only spare patch of anything as we forgot it was Easter weekend. Thank you again

Thank You to Wunderna Roadhouse for the $20 of fuel

Get into it! said Terry at the Liberty Windinnie Roadhouse as he donated $30 of fuel to us

Along the Nullarbor WA

Thanks to Trish Grknic at the Caltex in Norseman for the 25 litres of fuel

To the BP in Norseman we cowtow and offer sacrificial goats in the honour of, for the coffees and lammingtons.

Mate. Balladonia Roadhouse provided us with a 'donga' each to sleep in and in was bloody comfy set up too brother

Caiguna Roadhouse only went and gave us coffee and sandwiches didn't they. Thanks.

Mundrabilla Roadhouse Caravan Park made sure we weren't served up as roadkill by giving us a place to stay for the night.

Esperance WA

"...and unto thee I hereby set you these tasks three" said Derek Clarke to us, in a lay-by just outside town, where he met us, handed us a folder, with maps, an itinerary, three enigmatic challenges to complete and just a hint of the overly-dramatic. It set us up for all that was to come...

To Laurie and Rachel Seton, and their impish kiddiewinks, the willowy and elegant Rowan, the livewire chatterbox Sarah, irrepressible little Liam and ball-obsessed dog Oscar for the hospitality, the goodwill, and all that goes with staying in a wholesome family atmosphere.

Thanks to APEX who put so much effort into helping us with our fundraising and who disclosed what the three challenges were that Derek had merely hinted at, made sure we were well looked after, well saturated with alcohol and acquainted with everyone in town, to Steve and Dave, Sheree, Sarah, Ross, Derek, Laurie and everyone else

To Wrothie, Barry Wroth, who belies his name to be a very placid and nice man indeed. Until you get him inside a 4x4 and place him along a stretch of open coastline that is. Kill it Wrathie! kILL IT!!

Thanks to Ross Beckett and daughter Sarah who harassed passersby and motorists to elicit donations as we were completing challenge three

Thanks to Luke Winter of Radio West for the interview

They own the Bay Automotive Group and are by name called Stuart Ward and Bruce Kelman, but what is in a name? can you distill the essence of a person from their moniker, their birth-stamp? a Rose by any other name is just as sweet, and sweet indeed are these two gentlemen, as men of the world, men of honour, men to be reckoned with and to be depended upon, men to the very end.
So, in tribute, and defying all convention, is the best we can do for these two giants, who went our of their way for us, above and beyond, who went out on a limb, who sorted us out with supplies, with fuel, with clothing, with things to do, who took us to dinner, who made it their mission to to go and get us absolutely smashed in Stuart's Night Clubesque games room, the suitably titled Sin City, and who still, to this day, carry on the good work. A privilege and honour to meet these blokes.

Thanks to Greame Lamer at Retrovision for the phone and the headsets and sim packs to barter with and use

Bloody Thorpie! Brett Thorpe, Captain of the Ant, took us fishing out to the Figure of Eight and we caught fish, fought the elements, bravely crewed the boat by eating the odd sandwich and holding on tightly as Thorpie, bloody Thorpie, gave us a great day out and the breaking of our duck at catching fish.

Thank you to the Bay Rotary Club for all they did for us too

To Brian Tolhurst, notable Rotarian and baker, who ensured we had enough bread to take accross the Nullarbor

To Jock "The Wrecker" Murray, esteemed Rotarian, raconteur and gladabout, who filled us with fuel before we left.

To Paul Wennegal, who sponsored one of our challenges to the tune of $250, and helped us out in other ways too, we thank and say 'tis was a pelasure, sir'

To Lee Mackay, who donated to us another $250 if we help her out on the Sunday morning serving brekkie to the participants at the Relay For Life fundraiser.

To the fellas at Auto One who provided us with the jerry-cans we needed to cross the Nullarbor

To the other Rotary Club and Rob Leiper who introduced us, for the opportunity to talk and for the good will shown to us there

Yipee-kay-ey! To the Library ladies, Anne Hilton, Jayne Arnold, Marni, and Gladys and Mags who fed us quiche and cakes and were so nice as pie to us.

Thanks to Lucy, at the Onshore cafe for breakfast

To Henrietta and Donald MacKenzie, who run their olive farm in town, and who offered work to us, a place to stay and delicious homemade dinners. Very interesting octogenarian couple, inspiring too, and so full of vim and gusto, joi de vivre and a lust for life that retirement for them means being as active and as busy as ever, producing Olive Oil for sale as others their age sit and drink tea and watch Countdown

Thank you Esperance

Ravensthorpe WA

So much thanklings they turn to giant THANKS shooting through the sky, as we utter exclamations of gratitude to Jenny and Andrew Chambers at Yooroonga Farm for our beds, for feeding us, for the work at the Community Centre that elicited the donation of $250, and all the goodwill and friendship shown to us.

To Rees, starting his second day at Yooroonga Farm with the Chambers family when we arrived, we thank him for the $50 donation left to us

Good on ya Mazz and Geoff, the neighbours of Andrew and jenny and a bloody good sort too

To Jessie and Geoff Fairhead, who donated $100 to us for a mornings work attacking their garden with the vim and gusto characteristic of Ancient times people, the ones with the wisdom to know the difference between hither and thither

Thank you to Neil and Tracy Harding at the BP Roadhouse for the $50 fuel donation

Thanks to Paula Race, Anne's little, by by no means insignificant, sister who paid for the upkeep on Anne's Flicker Photo account. There's more to photography than point-and-click.