leave melbourne 16 and head straight back to darwin through adelaide, probably stay at adelaide for a day.
now at this point we will avaluate our money... if we cant afford it, we wont be able to get to adelaide. i would like to though... we will see. we probably WILL cos then we will go straight north back to darwin.
hell we may not even get to melbourne, but since fuel tends to be cheaper then a dollar a litre down there it should be ok.
now for me, I have ppl i can stay with in brisbane, and melbourne. However, is there anyone i could ask a favour of and put me up for a couple of days in sydney?
as for spero, as far as i know she has everyone/every city sorted out place wise.
anyways.... ppl to say hi too? howie wants me to visit doyen ;)
who is in brisbane? syd? and melbourne? and of course stops along the way.
I intend to drive pretty well non stop taking turns till we reach each city, however that may change especially in outback queensland due to the dumb ass fuck kangaroos. Also depending on money and other circumstances.
I can also take/recieve items for ppl who need it.
Today car got its suspension, power steering, and ball joints checked/fixed. Car will be in road trip mode as of friday arvo ;)
CANT WAIT!!!!
EDIT: spero has to be back in darwin by the 20.......
we may have to skip some of those cities....... DOH. probably sydney, will work that out when i get to talk to her.
Mate its 3484 kms to Brisbane. Id say aiming to make that in two days is well optimistic. Other than that your timings seem fine. Im aiming to do the Darwin to Newcastle in three days. Might knock a little off the night before by going to Katherine, Mataranka.
HEhe yeah, spend one gooood day on the road and your make it to the first town in qld (Camoveel?) or with a bit of luck even Mt Isa. NT you've got open speed limits for majority of it, but in qld its between 100 and 110km/h max. From here to Brisbane will take another good day at the least, more likely two though :)
A while ago my family used to drive down to Brisbane every christmas to visit all our relatives (We moved up here in '96, still have many relatives and friends in Brisbane) - 3 days was the best we acheived, typically we'd make the journey in 4-5 days.
its possible to do Darwin to Brisbane that quick, but you *really* want to trust your car, and you'd probably want at least one other driver to swap with.
FYI keeping up that pace will leave you feeling very ill too :P
I tend to agree with everyone else, leave yourself a good 3 days to do Darwin to Brisbane, and you probably want to do the same from Adelaide to Darwin (assuming you make it that far)
You will probably want to re-evaluate your finances in Sydney rather than Melbourne, cause once you hit Melb, its almost cheaper to go back through the center, which means you'll end up hitting Adelaide, even if briefly :P
easy, that is, if you don't mind a 14 or so hour drive each day.
i've done the trip numerous times (family in adelaide), although never as a driver. darwin->alice, alice->adelaide. the alice<->adelaide trip being the longest.
darwin<->alice i've done in a 16 seater coaster that had one more person than seat, plus all associated luggage, and thats still a one day drive.
mind you, i also know someone who didnt want to ride the coaster down, so drove, and promptly snapped a drive shaft or something in the middle of fucking nowhere.
one other thing to possibly consider, is driving back in the middle of the wet season, stuart highway can get cut off.
Quote from paladin: easy, that is, if you don't mind a 14 or so hour drive each day.
i've done the trip numerous times (family in adelaide), although never as a driver. darwin->alice, alice->adelaide. the alice<->adelaide trip being the longest.
darwin<->alice i've done in a 16 seater coaster that had one more person than seat, plus all associated luggage, and thats still a one day drive.
mind you, i also know someone who didnt want to ride the coaster down, so drove, and promptly snapped a drive shaft or something in the middle of fucking nowhere.
one other thing to possibly consider, is driving back in the middle of the wet season, stuart highway can get cut off.
things break, got that taken care of, insurance, and timetable setting. If i dont make a call by a certain time, things will be set in motion to figure out whats happened.
as for the highway, yea thats one thing i cant count on. Its one of the reasons i want to go back via melb-syd-brisbane.
Quote from Mephiston: [quote:99c700fc8b="paladin"]darwin <-> adelaide is 2 days easy.
I've done it in 2, but it hurt. 3 is much more enjoyable. Like I said, if your doing it that quick, you really want to trust your car[/quote:99c700fc8b]
heh, imo, the only thing that makes that drive enjoyable, is finishing it :)
Quote from Rainwulf A'Kahnon: anyways.... ppl to say hi too? howie wants me to visit doyen ;)
who is in brisbane? syd? and melbourne? and of course stops along the way.
Well those in Melbourne include me, my brother locutus, odyssey, pazor, jay, blue, bainsey and a few other dx members, and then theres disturbed, scorcher, keeboo and radeonwhore
Quote from Jay: [quote:e8f4b15aca="Rainwulf A'Kahnon"]she said she can! so i believe her. i havent seen her drive yet, so i may be in for a suprise. *dig dig* :lol:
I'd like to see the suprise on her face if you pull on a fire retardant suit and full helmet while she saddles into the driver's side. :lol:[/quote:e8f4b15aca]
times posted are not impossible for the trip just improbable. I have done cairns to port lincoln in just over the 24 hr mark which is a fair hike if ya look it up on a map :P
adelaide to sydney in 10 1/2 hrs with a stop for food on the way (mind you the trip home was slowed down once we got the $670 fine)
family trip adelaide to brisbane in about 24hrs of driving over 2 days (god that was boring and god my dad is a bad bad driver)
One of the best things I learnt from my driving instructor while going aronud the highways.
Just because you have right of way, there's no reason why we should have to pile straight into the side OF THAT FARKING HUGE SEMI! *Instructor kicks instructor side brake for a bit*
thouhg when i heard about it i cracked up laughing and the time it toke 3hrs to get 5 pizza's that was funny as well. That also has to be the best pizza run ever he also had a bet for how long he could stand still i lost with 5 secs kroinc won with 3 secs :P
Ok, since I am an obsessive-compulsive-explainer-type-person, I'll explain Adam's "Right of Way" comment.
We were all driving in Adam's car. That is to say, Blake, myself, Steven and Andrew were passangers while Adam was driving. We pulled into the T-junction beside Bunnings on Bishop street, near the flyover. We were turning right towards the flyover. Approaching us was a large truck. Adam stopped, the truck began to slow down, but for some reason- we're not sure if Adam didn't apply the brakes hard enough, or accidently hit the accellerator, but he yelled, "We've got right of way!" and began moving out infront of the truck. Note, people, that this truck (assuming it was full) was still moving at quite a pace, and probably could not stop before hitting us even if it wanted to. Naturally, us passengers were quite alarmed, and I yelled out, "It's a TRUCK ADAM!" And he accellerated further, pulling away from it's path, just.
Quote from Harbinger: [quote:fe9ce34821="Rainwulf A'Kahnon"]After the last one went astray hahaha
bahahah, you have no luck time for Road Trip ver 3 or 2.01 depends shit man, you should have done some beta testing before you released version 1.[/quote:fe9ce34821]
i should send it to microsoft, and then ppl will PAY to beta test it ;)
thanks Jay, yea i was intending to use the power of www.travelmate.com.au
I have family in melbourne and thats it, its where I grew up.
Im staying with ebola in QLD, family in melbourne and a friend in Adelaide if we end up there. Im trying to get ahold of someone else to stay with in sydney. But he is proving difficult.
Im catching up with a lot of old friends, far as I knew me and colin were going seperate ways whenever we hit a capital. I have my people i need to see and he has his. (eg family in QLD)
This thread is getting sidetracked. email me [email]chocs98@hotmail.com[/email] if you want to catch up with me and Ill see what I can do.
Yeah, i cant be bothered trying to read through the crap to get to other stuff, so if either of you want to organise a meet with us people from melbourne then heres some contact details:
I knew three mates who kept on sleeping in an old Cortina when they were in a road trip visiting me in Melbourne. Slept under a freeway in melbourne and a truckstop just out of Melbourne.
Funnily enough they came down without checking my address with me before.
Quote from Danny G: Funnily enough they came down without checking my address with me before. Ooops :oops: If Martok, Locutus and I get lost then we will look for all the funny look'in slack-jaw yokels sitting on their computers :lol:
If you really need somewhere to stay in Melb Rain and get desperate, then I may be able to make some room here. You would be sleeping on the floor, but there are no spare beds, only plenty of floor space. Sorry that's the best I can do.
Quote from Odyssey: [quote:a81c60435e="Danny G"]I have a unique surname....only two in Australia. We are the only family in Australia with our name.[/quote:a81c60435e]