Actually we’ve been back since last wednesday. Shattered doesn’t begin to cover the mental exhaustion caused not only by flogging the car on the roads for three days straight, but also contending with the worst sequence of roadworks I’ve ever seen in any country. On our last day we literally could not go for more than twenty kilometres at any point without being slowed, stopped, or diverted, and all with billboards screaming about accidents and speed cameras. The information overload and the concentration involved damn near killed me. Continue reading “And we’re back!”
Month: May 2014
Week one on the road
It feels like we’ve been away forever, but it’s only a week! Driven 3500 kms and burned through god knows how many litres of overpriced petrol, and I regret none of it 🙂 It’s been amazing.
Quite a few piccies under the cut. Click on them to see them full size.
Can you guess where we are? :)
Just a taster – longer blog post to follow this arvo.
Route map
This is *very* rough as everything after Adelaide is up for discussion/changing, but this will give the non-Aussies a little idea of where we’re going in relation to the continent:
We’re off to the desert!
Taking the new car (zoom zoom) off to Uluru on Monday. We’ve only booked accommodation to Coober Pedy on the return from Uluru, but Adelaide is likely, as is Warnambool for southern right whale spotting.
So, will keep you posted 🙂 We’ll be away for three weeks, I hope.