The last bit - Alice to SW Queensland, central NSW, Blackheath to HOME
The line on the left is this bit of the trip - the right-most lines were heading north in May. From Alice to Home there were 2 options - south towards Adelaide and then east, or the more interesting east into Queensland and then south-east across NSW. Having ignored the "best time of year to visit the outback" instructions a month ago, we continued to drive on super-quiet roads in unreasonably hot conditions. After 1500km of dirt roads, and passing 10 cars in 5 days, it took a few hours to adjust to driving on the left again and dealing with oncoming traffic! There was a lot of rain in this region a few weeks earlier and some roads were 4WD-only as they were still wet. Just before Uluru we started to notice that 5th gear was getting noisy. (For the interested: most likely the rear layshaft bearing, which is a known weakness on these boxes.) This meant driving the last few thousand kilometres in 4th gear which, at 20km/h slower, allowed plenty of time to appreciate the