Up at first light. Quick breakfast. Only another 1000 km. Didn't have time to stop in Longreach. They have Stockmans Hall of Fame and Qantas museum. This is where the airline started. (Qantas = Queensland And Northern Territories Air Service). Would have been a great stop but it will have to wait till the next time we are by.
Stopped for fuel in Winton. Both cars started to have problems with fuses. We've been running our inverters to charge up computers, cell phone, radios and any thing else we can find. With all the engineers on this caravan getting a fuse changed took almost 1 1/2 hrs. Had some fun chatting it up with a longhaul trucker that was delivering these huge tires to the copper mine in Cloncurry. I could understand about every 3rd word with his Aussie brogue. He was amazed that we were driving this big trailer with our Toyota. "Ther' tough rigs that yor can get 500,000 km on a straight 6, but ther' really slow without a turbo. Couldn't yor' get a Ford". We waved good bye after passing each other 3 times that day.