Last day today. The packing up has started and I do not know how I am going to fit everything that I need to take home in the suitcase that Mum and Dad have brought for us to pack up in. Typically, the kids have found friends to play with and spent the morning with them in the pool. Bags did eventually get put together and being still too early we had some lunch together and went for a quick drive into Charles Darwin National Park, where we learned more about Japan and America’s involvement in World War Two. There is a great lookout over Darwin from the park and it was a good place to reflect on all the things we have done here.
Quick trip to the supermarket for plane snacks and back to the van for a final change(it will be very cold in Melbourne) and it is hard to believe that it is all over. It seems very strange to be walking (well, flying really) away from the things that have housed and transported us so well for the last month. Someone asked me during our trip how we were coping being in such close confines with each other for such a long time. My response was that you live your reality. The car and van were our reality for 5 weeks (the visit to Bill’s place notwithstanding) and I never felt claustrophobic in either. Most days that we had stopped we were sightseeing, walking or swimming in the pool. The days we were on the road we had to cover huge distances in some of the most vast and open places I have ever visited.
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