I love playing with scale. It was a very long way to Australia, once, back in 1970. I planned to cross Australia by road almost immediately. It never happened. I bought Bertha in 2018. Around Xmas 2021 it took six weeks to do the six-hour drive from Gosford to Araluen. Then, ready to test myself against "the big lap", I set out from Araluen.
One hour later I was tired and felt ready to stop. So I did. I ate a cold dinner straight from the fridge and didn't need to hop into bed, seeing as I was already sitting on it. ... Ideal! That was Night 1. Waking up on a road through the Deua National Park was great. As always, when I've slept in Bertha there's a blog entry. Late: but, hey, I've been out of range since then, and here it is at last. ... I will keep up the blog as best I ca,n but posting from my phone isn't always easy, so expect a mix of random quickkies interspersed with occasional longer posts. My general strategy is to move slowly towards Broken Hill and to fossick around there a bit before moving into South Australia. From there? South there's only ocean, but there's the Nullabor to the west, Uluru to the north, and -- should I tire -- home may beckon from the east.
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Gabriele Marranci
13/1/2022 07:32:35 pm
Thanks for sharing your lovely trip with us. Be safe and I look fowards to reading more of this adventure :)
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AuthorIn mid 2018 I started recording each night I sleep in Bertha: sometimes just for myself, sometimes to share with friends and other travellers. Archives
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