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..... yesterday we finally arrived at our endpoint and safely completed 8555 kilometers. Every kilometer was beautiful, each one somehow different. YNP 940 held...

I ...... many beautiful kilometers, almost the last ones on this journey...... ...... it's already starting with sunrise. Escape from the flies...... ...

well, we're heading back, only 1000 km to Perth ......... .... ok, just until we reach Wooramel Roadhouse. The center of the world. If you want to get to know it, zoom...

Anyone who looks at this is to blame themselves!!!! Exmouth, tropics, Cape Range National Park hurricane-prone ..... well, everything else without comment, but beware of the...

Today we have planned a marathon distance, 800 km ...which means driving, drinking coffee, refuelling, changing drivers, marveling at how monotonous and yet how...

...... Kalbarri National Park, magnificent, if you had a 4x4 ....... but we don't, so we explored the surroundings with a quad bike ....... was canceled ....... oh well, then...

Definitely being pursued by the wind, it stormed all night and this morning it's cloudy again. Forget about the dry hot continent. Leisurely heading to Kalbarri National...

The North is calling, but today it's only a whisper and we haven't gotten far...... ..... resting in beautiful places....... ...... delicious coffee with...

Perth - Cervantes ....... a different Australia. The people seem more European, more strained, not as relaxed anymore, but the landscape is still fantastic....... ..........

...... it's too cold and rainy in the south ...... .... the living room and bedroom are not heated ...... .... via Denmark, to the Valley of the Giants...

....... the hot and dry continent ....... well, the laundry I hung out to dry yesterday is soaking wet today, it's been storming and raining all night..... .... and so it will...

quite cloudy today...... a letter jingle tree in the 40 degree warm north wind..... the grain chamber of Australia........ the...

today almost no driving (only 170 km) and sleeping in Esperance for the second time..... but instead, a little bit of movement, by myself......... thanks to the stupid...

....... also locked the steering wheel and took a nap...... ...... this time only 560 km ....... .... where does the road end, where does the sky...

... that means showing a little patience...... ..... and our 280,000 km car has to hold on a little longer........ ....... Sleeping in Penong with...

..... Wilpena Pound in the flinders ranges...... so, let's drive a bit first......... ..... a little 320 km detour to do some nice hikes and then find out that...

We say goodbye to the pub and the fish and chips shop and hit the road again, making many kilometers to Adelaide. Paul really wants to experience the feeling of a big city...

and off we go, there is still a whole continent waiting for us...... via Bridgewater Bay, one of the most beautiful surf beaches in Australia.... ...... and always...

.....in Warrnambool...... von Herzen wünschen wir Euch allen ein gesundes, glückliches, zufriedenes Jahr 2017, dass Eure Wünsche und Hoffnungen in Erfüllung gehen....

....... one of the supposedly most beautiful roads in the world....... ...... without words...... ...

....... for the next 30 days......... ..... one thing is for sure, where we start..... ..... and where we should return the car in 30 days....... ...

Two days in a city where nearly 1/5 of the Australian population lives, lively, lovely, desirable as Paul feels, or just crowded, as I feel..... .....Modern and Old..... ...

After saying goodbye to Dana last night, she is already returning to Germany tomorrow, it's the start of Part 2 for Paul and me Juhidu, finally driving again and..... ...

... starts off nicely ..... continues with a nice walk after the family breakfast ..... ..... then packing up and last but not least we get to go for a barbecue...

A big thank you to everyone who made this time possible for us in NZ, especially Dana and her lovely host family

Well, in the oversized Disneyland of the South, of course the truly spectacular events cannot be missing. Things like jumping headfirst from bridges and such. So: driving a car:...

For 40 years, I've had the dream of gliding through the air in a sailplane. Today, unexpectedly, it's going to come true. The weather gods are on my side, I was able to book...

With the..... from Wellington...... to ... and from there, with our increasingly luxurious rental car back to Timaru. ...

Cultuuuur.... Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa .....lots of wind, the almost naked bronze man from yesterday was completely exposed by the wind, so...

Thanks to the bed in our accommodation, I woke up early and went out to see the sunrise ...... then we continued, many kilometers from Napier...... ...