The big red rock

My grandparents used to have a piano in their house. Always when I went to my opa and omi, I'd play the piano. And on that piano there was a framed picture of a big red rock in a big field of nothing, with a clear blue sky above it. The Uluru, aka Ayers Rock. Opa en omi have visited that rock many years ago, and through the years they've shown me pictures and videos and told me stories of all their travels. And I always found Australia the most fascinating one, because of that mysterious big red rock.
And here I am, years later, waiting in Alice Springs to visit the Uluru on Friday.
But, before I rumble on about that thing ik the desert, you'd probably like to know what happened after Melbourne.
I did a roadtrip from Melbourne to Adelaide via the Great Ocean Road (GOR), in a van with a Canadian. The GOR was beautiful. We had a lot of clouds and rain, and, although I wouldn't have minded not being blown away at the Twelve Apostels lookout, I think that made the sea even more beautiful.
After two days we arrived in Adelaide, where I stayed for a week to find people to travel to Alice Springs with. I ended up with four Germans, a Frenchman and two relocation campervans. We left on Thursday and arrived on Sunday, after four days of nothing but desert. So many people say that the desert is hours of nothing but big, boring fields. Now I've seen it myself and I experienced something totally different. I've fallen in love with the outback, the red dust, the (I think they were) salt lakes, the many kilometres of highway that you could see ahead of you, without any cars on it, and the beautiful sky; bright blue during the day and full of stars at night.
Now I've been in Alice Springs for a few days, looking at the many aboriginals around here, reading, chilling out, trying to figure out my next kind of transportation, and proving once again that I'm a bad cook by getting hot oil on my legs, neck, hand and tumny, causing a few burns. Advise of the pharmacist; stay out of the sun at all times. Which is probably not gonna work, because tonight there's a camel ride during sunset on the planning. I can almost feel you being envious! I'll think of all of you at home, enduring the cold weather, while I'm sitting on a camel, looking at the sunset in that big field.