When your grader breaks down in the middle of the desert, there's only one thing to do - attach it to your bulldozer and tow it back to civilisation. For Beadell's team, that mean a journey of 800 kilometres at 3 kilometres an hour - the longest towing operation in the history of Central Australia. They hitched up their 'train' and set off back along the road they'd just built. But while they were set for a long and arduous journey, the last thing they expected was for their ration truck to melt..this had it's disadvantages but it was the best entertainment they'd had in a year. It was just the start of a series of incidents which were to mark  this journey as one of the most eventful episodes in the team's experience. Beadell recounts the outstanding events in the road's construction, the excitement and surprises that lay in store for them, fantastic piles of boulders,  mountain peaks and some of the most unusual flora and fauna to be found on Earth.  Photographic illustrations.