So after a flight I expected to be terrifying which wasn’t at all I arrived in Sydney. I phoned a backpackers’ place from an advert at the airport and spoke to a worker who advised me that a shuttle bus would be arriving in around fifteen minutes time. I went and waited where they had […]
Read the rest of Wednesday 10th September to Friday 12th September – Sydney
On Saturday morning I got ready and checked out of the hostel in Maroochydore. Stuart wasn’t quite as sprightly but eventually we were ready to leave. He was driving and we headed South down the coast. En route we stopped at the most amazing beach (in Caloundra), drank white wine (well I did) and admired […]
Read the rest of Saturday 6th to Wednesday 10th September – Brisbane area road trip
Having arrived at the YHA the previous evening I decided to explore the town. I got the courtesy bus into the centre and explored the two shopping centres. The latter was actually really quite big and had a pleasing smell of cookies. Having had lots of issues with my ears popping and unpopping all the […]
Read the rest of Tuesday 2nd September to Friday 5th September – Maroochydore
I woke up and left the caravan park in Chinchilla and headed down the final stretch to Brisbane. This stretch was perhaps the easiest with dual carriageway practically the whole way down. When I got to Brisbane I managed to find the place to drop the van off easily enough and made use of their […]
Read the rest of Monday 1st September – Chinchilla to Brisbane to Maroochydore
I got up and left Lake Maraboon and headed South on the Great Inland Way towards Roma. I had the whole petrol dilemma again and realised that I still hadn’t learnt. At least I now knew that I could do around seventy kilometres once the petrol light had come on. I think I was actually […]
Read the rest of Sunday 31st August – Lake Maraboon to Roma
I left Charters Towers truck stop in the morning after a shower and egg sarnie. Other than the unwanted car park guests I was pleasantly surprised by the laundry, hot showers and other facilities they had. I drove about ten kilometres down the road prior to the oil light coming on in Bern. At first […]
Read the rest of Saturday 30th August – Charters Towers to Lake Maraboon
After a decidedly dodgy night sleep, due to the others in the dorm deciding that they not only needed the fan on but also needed the door open, I checked out and booked another relocation van. I was told that I could collect the van from midday so faffed around online for a while and […]
Read the rest of Friday 29th August – Cairns to Charters Towers