Travel Prep

Only last night I got home from horseshoeing school outside of Dallas after two very long days of travel. Now I have two very short days to rest and repack before jetting off to... Australia! Honestly, the reality of moving to the Outback for 6 months has barely set in. I think the station (ranch) where I will be working is very large (3 million acres), very remote (5 hours from the closest town) and very hot, in spite of being there in the winter. All of this makes me exceptionally unsure of how to pack.

I leave Wednesday (the 17th) at noon. I start with a 9 hour flight to LA, where I'm staying overnight. I leave again the next night for a 15 hour flight to Sydney. Due to the magic of timezones, I get on the plane the night of the 18th and then get off it the morning of the 20th. Yikes! I'm in Sydney for just long enough to make it through customs and then I hop on a plane again bound for Darwin, which is at the central northern tip of the country. I spend the night in Darwin on the 20th because there is only 1 bus out of town each day and it leaves at noon. So I get a little break before my nine, that's right, NINE hour bus trip into the outback. At the end of this drive, I hop off the bus at a hotel where, hopefully, my new employers will meet me and drive me the several hours to the station. Oh boy! 4 days (5 on the calendar) of travel! Let's just say I'm not expecting anyone to come visit me. Wow.


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I believe I will have fairly constant internet access during this adventure, so I would love to hear from anyone and everyone. If you would prefer, my mailing address will be...

Jena Clarke
PMB 12
Tennant Creek, NT 0862
Australia

I will try to keep this up to date and take plenty of pictures.

Love you all,
Jena