8.30am Tuesday morning at Pine Creek NT 20degrees C. inside the caravan and the pleasant breeze we wished for all night is now blowing!!!! From Alice Springs Northward the bush is displaying what getting a drink means in arid country. The roadsides covered in a variety of wildflowers, with a backdrop of flowering scrubs and smaller trees, with all the trees looking washed, refreshed, the leaves in every blend of green shiny, the newer leaves sometimes translucent allowing the sunlight to penetrate through, causing some to almost appear a fluorescent green or yellow. We find ourselves regularly lifting our “sunnies” to see if the colours are being created by the tint in the sunglasses.Alice Springs at the National Road Transport Hall of Fame is a hive of organised movement, as the trucks are started up and removed from the main building which is being prepared as a vast hall for this Thursdays (24th August) commencement of an annual reunion. Those who visited last year would find it amazing to see the development and changes since then. Photo collages are an absolute theme and those created by all the dealerships of Kenworth Trucks are quite something around the walls of the “Big Kenworth Shed”. The IH Scout display is still located up the stairs on the right hand side after entering the front door, immediately visible by simply turning your head as you walk in. Outside the front door an “El Fresco” setting features the front of an International Truck apparently protruding from the end wall, and when the bonnet is lifted the engine bay contains a BBQ plate instead of an engine!!!!!! Kel, Liz Martins husband has retired and is spending even more time there, and it shows. Vehicles including those awaiting restoration are displayed throughout the entire site. A memorial garden with a water feature pond has been constructed and people are attaching memorial plaques to the surrounding decorative rocks. One of the “humanising” aspects taking place