RV FEATURE
The track was very narrow , especially for a motorhome .
“ Where are you ?” they ask .
“ Well , we don ’ t know exactly …” Rick starts trying to explain where we ’ ve gone wrong . They don ’ t want to know .
“ Closest town ?” the slightly annoyed operator asks .
We guessed Larrimah .
He puts us through to the Northern Territory Police . And so starts our recovery story .
I can ’ t adequately stress how relieved we are to be talking to someone who might be able to help us . A lovely woman takes our details .
She calmed us and helped ‘ find ’ us . We knew where we had turned off – or where we thought we had turned off – but the goat track we ended up on was an unknown .
LESSON 2
You can find your exact location – without reception
Here ’ s the next bit of gold we discovered . Even without phone reception or internet , Google Maps cap pinpoint your exact location with latitude and longitude points .
With all our details sorted , we are put through to the supervisor , Sergeant George at NT Police . He ’ s our new best friend .
“ I ’ m going to help you ,” Sgt George says . “ Just let me make a few calls . You ’ ll have to call me back in half an hour .”
We ’ re not sure why they can ’ t call us back , but the emergency line doesn ’ t work that way , we ’ re told . It ’ s a long 30 minutes .
Then we call back via the same rigmarole . We swipe right on the SOS phone option and get , “ Police , fire or ambulance ?”
“ Police please .” “ What state and town ?”
“ NT . We ’ re stuck out on this track …”
They don ’ t want to know . “ What town ?” “ Larrimah . We think .”
Sgt George has good and bad news . Bad news first .
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