She did very well in getting us and the Expanda around Australia.
She carried us up to QLD many times and over to SA a few times too … and countless times up to Merimbula.
She’ll be missed, but she is going to a good home and lots of new adventures.
Good luck ol’ girl… Take care of Joe and Kitty.
Feb 12
New car, new dashcam, new road trip.
Trying out a new cam, the Viofo A119 V3. Seems to give a better picture than the older one, especially at night.
Also trying out a new car, a Kia Sportage. This one has got adaptive cruise with stop start so most of this drive has the car on cruise control and it works really well. It also tries to keep itself centered in the lane, which doesn’t work quite so well.
Done over 3 days at the start of December 2019. At 4x speed. Route: Frankston to Sorrento, Ferry across to Queenscliff, Geelong, Torquay, Great Ocean Rd, Lorne, Apollo Bay, 12 Apostles, Port Campbell, Warrnambool, Port Fairy, Portland, Mount Gambier. Return via Hamilton and Ballarat and finishing in Melbourne. Fueling done overnight.
Feb 12
These videos are from my Viofo A119 dashcam on the Prado. Done in September 2018.
On the way up we went on Eastlink to Ringwood, then via Lilydale, Yea, Euroa to the Hume Fwy. That takes us to Sydney, which is bypassed via the M7 out to the Pacific Hwy/Mwy that gets us to Qld. Overnight stops near Gosford and Coolangatta. From Coolangatta we went thru Surfers then back to the Pacific Mwy/Bruce Hwy to Caloundra where we followed the coast in to Noosaville.
On the way back we went from Noosaville to Eumundi then following the Bruce Hwy/Pacific Mwy to the Gold Coast. Continuing down the Pacific Hwy/Mwy to Forster for the first stop. Down into Sydney and across the Harbour Bridge. Down towards Wollongong and over Sea Cliff Bridge before heading inland to join the Hume Hwy/Fwy to get to Yass for the 2nd stop. From Yass we went a little inland to break up the highway driving a bit, but rejoined the Hume at Albury and continued into Melbourne. We took the Western Ring road to go over the Bolte bridge and then followed the coast down to Frankston via Beach Rd/Nepean Hwy.
Blakes first powerlifting meet. He was a bit nervous as they had a good crowd there.
We were a bit late to the party and missed his 215kg squat, which was the biggest on the day.
All up a 580kg total which was equal highest on the day.
He’s a very happy boy!
Jan 8
The van has been sold and is now off on some new adventures.
So, what’s next for us? No idea …
A few road trips and ‘cabin’ and ‘tent’ holidays for a while I guess.
Sep 20
Jun 9
May 20
Well it had to happen eventually.
Things we’re going way too smoothly with the trip preparation.
Today I discovered the first snag … and it’s a big snag too. Apocalyptic even ….
Now you may scoff … but this is serious business!
This news post explains it better than I … but basically Judgement Day is May 21st at 6pm … and the end of the world via Zombie Invasion is in October! Hardly the sort of holiday I had planned.
Apparently only 3% of us will be ‘saved’ by the Rapture on Saturday … the rest of us get to hang around until October.
Now being judgement day I initially figured that perhaps it had something to do with Microsoft acquiring Skype a couple of weeks back … thus paving the way for Sky.Net, which as all Terminator fans would know is just not a good thing to tinker with!
It’s just asking for trouble, really …
Funny … Ha … bloody Ha! Right?
WRONG!
Well the Centre for Disease Control is taking the threat of Zombie Invasion seriously … you’d better get your Zombie Invasion Preparedness Kit sorted out pretty quick … I’m tippin’ that there will be a rush on Anaconda tomorrow for Zombie beheading tools.
Here’s a hint … arm yourself with something more potent than the Cat5 o’ Nine Tails.
Myself? Well … it’s not like ya can do much about it now really, is it?
So I reckon it’s a perfect excuse to crack open that expensive bottle of Red that you’ve been saving for a special occasion (that never comes) … or that 30yo scotch … or actually the 25yo blonde down the street for that matter …
You’ve only got tonight to enjoy it. Tomorrow will be too late … as Captain Obvious would say …
“Best do it now then!”
Thank God it’s Friday !!!!
Feb 1
Took the plunge the other day and actually booked both the long service leave and also the annual leave to go along with it. Today it was all approved!
That makes the countdown clock in the sidebar accurate. First day of the trip is 9/7/2011. Guess I better get on and finish planning out the remainder of the days then!