15-11-2010, 02:44pm
Yeah mate, 12,000km in 3 weeks, 6,500 of those in one week. First stint: Campbelltown to Broken Hill, 9hrs. Longest stint: Broken Hill to Alice Springs in 20hrs. Best fuel economy: 4.1L/100km (made it into Coober Pedy with 600ml in the tank!). Worst fuel economy: didn't care!! Best talking point: overtaking the NT Hwy Patrol at 290km/h and getting naught but a friendly wave! Freakiest experience: not the counting of 37 kangaroos riding the Stuart Hwy at night, but being passed time and again by the same drunk driver who kept spearing off the road and spinning out in the spinnifex north of Alice Springs, and making the decision that my best chance was to get past them and do 200 through the night till I got to Alice, a further 60km down the road!!! Talk about concentration and saucepan eyes! Great fun, though!