2800 kms? Bah - I’ve got a girl to see.

• Author: johnnymestizo
• Filed under: Australiana, Wheeled Machines
• Date: Dec 16,2007
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In two and a half days I have driven 2800kms. Australia is a big country! A massive thanks go out to the Driver Reviver stations potted out along main connected highways. Without their gold-coin-donation coffees and bikkies I would have been a goner. Drive - Revive - Survive! Driving from Townsville QLD to Albury NSW is no easy feat to do by oneself. Every two hours have a ten minute break. A lot of the time the reviver stations provide a brew and double for a toilet stop service stations do the same. Yeah petrol is like $AU1.45 in some places - budget for it a few months before.

Alarm bells should be ringing the moment you do that quick little ‘yawn’. Stop, walk around and stretch, water and get back into it. When it’s 1250AM and your doing that boring straight in regional wherever try not to speed. If you start singing along to a track that’s ok. When the CD stops and you’re still singing, you start seeing people on the side of the road when at the third glance its a dead tree, you try to stay within the lines and resort to ‘that’s good enough’, and you yawn is so big you have to close your eyes - STOP. Grab the quilt and crash out in the backseat - I did and I’m still alive and breathing.

‘Don’t die for a dead line.’ These highway safety messages are engraved into my memory. They are on all the highways in Australia. Hopefully the holiday death toll stays down this year.

Big motivation - When you haven’t seen your girl for 3 months you’ll do what it takes.

Ingatz

A map of this journey is available however it is too big to fit into a minimap. See my google map Sturt St (Townsville) to Dean St (Albury) that I drove. Enjoy!