On the road again

A few months ago, we wrote off our Big Yellow 4Runner on the Black Spur (beautiful drive, terrifying thought of going over the edge) while were bringing home the wombat cage - about the only thing left standing at the Ranch after the bushfires tore through. After embedding itself in embankment (much better than over the cliff!), it looked a little like this:

with the chassis twisted and bits of steel poking through those nice yellow panels.

So we've been down a car since late March, and it's getting a little frustrating when we both need the car but have to go different directions. Sure, he's got his bike, but it's not always practical when it's bleak.

We've been looking at Subarus, ebcause they'ce got a reputation for sticking to the road like glue, but most of the good ones haev been put of our price range. Until yesterday. When we snaffled a 1997 Forester for not nuch at all. We won't get to pick it up until the weekend, but in the meantime, here's one we prepared earlier:


let's see the wombat try and push us off the road in THIS!