Hi all!
“So what’s up?”, you would say.
It’s been now 1 week that I’ve been staying in a backpacker hostel in Broome. With these 15000 habitants Broome is the largest city I stopped in since Perth. Nothing spectacular here except the baobs and another beach, Cable beach, famous for the nice sunset you can enjoy at the end of the day while riding camels 🙂 Oh and I almost forgot the Matso’s brewery, nice place to have a good beer!
The plan was initially to leave Broome after few days but we couldn’t get a lift any sooner. Three of us left at the beginning of the week. We were just 2 left, Marion and I. We had found a lift to get out of Broome on the 31st of July but on monday, the girl who was supposed to take us, postponed the departure until 2 weeks later. 
Meanwhile we met Marko, a friend from the “Magic bus”, again. He was supposed to join us on this trip as well.
We couldn’t stay 2 more weeks here waiting around so we decided with Marion and Marko to buy a 4×4 to go up to Darwin and to sell it there. We plan to do it slowly (3 to 4 weeks) to be able to stop at every place along the way. It’s actually way cheaper to do that than to rent a car for 1 month. The 4wd will allow us to take the “Gibb river road” instead of the Highway. 
The “Gibb river road” is the kind of gravel road on which you can drive 400km without bumping into any gas stations.
As we had one spare seat in the car, we published an announcement on a well known social network for anyone interested in joining us on this roadtrip. The following day just after we had done the paperwork to change the ownership of the car, we met Antonia, our new travelmate. 
We will take the road tomorrow and leave our backpacker hostel and all the comforts that go with it.
Stay tuned and see you for another blog post!
Click below the see all the photos 😉
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