Smash somehow woke us up from the comfort of our cozy bed at the Rasmussen abode at 5am (yes, 5am!) and we left Ian to sleep in and got on the road super early to tackle our 902km day. Trundle... Read more »
Woke up to an awesome view across the valley and plains and water in the morning with the sunrise at Hancock’s Lookout. Smashing out the drive today – 722km on the clock today to get us to the Rasmussen villa... Read more »
Last day on the Nullarbor! It was a lot quicker and less painful than we had anticipated, which was nice. Nullarbor translated means no trees, and the Nullarbor Plain is exactly that. Well lots of scrub. But definitely no trees.... Read more »
First day on the Nullarbor! Feels good! Pretty intensely straight roads right from the start – then we hit the 90 Mile Straight. 146km of dead straight road, the longest straight stretch in Australia. That was straight. Very... Read more »
Just a post to give a quick sum up of the week and a bit spent in the beautiful Margaret River region and surrounds with our respective lads which was awesome! Trundle and Finn took the Renault and Smash and... Read more »
We made it to day 100! Exciting stuff. We calculated that we’ve travelled around 20,000km so far – which is halfway around the world! And 5% of the way to the moon. So that is awesome. So today we packed... Read more »
First thing was get up and get to the tyre place and cross our fingers that the puncture was repairable and we didn’t have to buy a new tyre to replace the brand new one we had just bought! And... Read more »
From Lake Douglas we headed off back through Kalgoorlie and started on the road out to Menzies to fuel up at their self serve 24 hour fuel stop at the abandoned road house with all the number plates stapled up... Read more »
Oh man so many flies. We had to retreat from the rest stop because there were zillions of them. Thankfully Merredin was just up the road so we pulled in there and made some banana pancakes in the carpark whilst... Read more »
We left the rest stop relatively early and headed straight for Yanchep National Park, which was just down the road, and it was lovely to arrive before the crowds did as it’s relatively close to Perth and quite accessible for... Read more »