We have our Dream Road trip planned for this year. We hope we’re not being too ambitious in light of the current fuel situation. Our son and daughter-in-law live in Darwin, and have just moved into their newly built home. We hope to get up there to visit them.
The plan is to travel slowly, and stay a little longer than usual at destinations as we move slowly north. We will remain flexible as we travel, as the future fuel situation remains uncertain thanks to Mr Trump. Our plans may have to change at a minutes notice, but that’s the beauty of travelling with your accomodation being towed along behind us, home can be wherever we stop and for as long as we stay there.
We’ll leave home with initial plans of getting to the Carnarvon area, around 1200 kms north. Then we’ll reassess, and if all is looking good to continue we’ll move towards Broome. If things aren’t looking to promising at any stage of the trip, then we’ll just stay put in the nicest place that’s within our reach until things settle down enough to allow us either to continue on, or to return home. It is currently looking promising though.
If luck is on our side, we’ll complete the full journey over approximately four months. We’ll travel over 11,000 kms and we’ll see some of the country that we haven’t seen before. The Red Centre, coming down to SA from Darwin will be new territory for us. As will both the Yorke, and the Eyre Peninsulas in SA.
We leave in three days time. I’ll try to bit more consistent with my posts for any of you who are following along…..
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What an adventure! We’ve done all of this except for the drive from Three Ways to Adelaide. I guess with the fuel situation, as long as you have plenty of non perishable food you’ll be fine to stop and wait for supplies. Safe travels.
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We always make sure we have sufficient supplies on board. However, if things start to look dubious fuel wise we re-consider as there are places that wouldn’t feel safe or comfortable being stranded in. We’ll take it a day at a time.
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Looking forward to your bulletins from the road – travel safely and enjoy!
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Have a great trip!
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Sure will Lindsay. Are you getting away this winter?
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We’re unsure as yet. Safe travels.
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Thrilled for you and jealous at the same time. Safe travels.
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It’s a bit of a risk atm Peggy. But we figure the people in the north of the country still need their southern tourists at this time of year. So someone has to do their bit to make it happen for them. And that’s our excuse for using the extra fuel at this point in time. LOL.
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looking forward to travelling with you, hope you have a safe and happy trip. We are still planning on going to Broome in August all being well. love Jill. xx
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I hope you get there Jill. We are hoping to be past Broome and on our way to Darwin by early July. We still have a bit to get ready. Paul had new tyres fitted to the car last week, and while it was at the tyre place a stack of tyres fell on the front fender. Not to much damage, but it’ll probably need a new fender to be fitted. We’re taking it in for a quote today, but it’ll have to wait till after we get back to be fixed. Bob Jane’s will be paying for it of course. Bit of a pain though to be driving a round with a damaged fender.
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