Tag: road trip
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The South West
After the dream that was the crazy West Coast trip, the South West was always going to be a letdown. I debated stopping while I was on top, but the desire to “come full circle” won out in the end. If the deranged threesome that had accompanied me from Broome to Perth had been around,…
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The Principality of Hutt River
I omitted one stop from my travel log on the West Coast trip. Clearly, that story is already long enough. Plus, we visited a separate country, which surely justifies a separate blog post. “A separate country?”, you ask? Indeed, just off the North West Coastal Highway Number One, a few kilometres off the main road,…
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The Australian West Coast
We half-heartedly searched for rideshares the whole week we were in Broome, but towards the end of the dry season and with cyclone season looming, they were slim pickings. There were, however, a lot of rental relocations, as everyone was trying to move their cars south asap. We finally settled on one of those and…
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Darwin to Broome – The Kimberley Road Trip
Since fate had allotted me an extra 3 months in Australia, I was out of excuses to not do the dreaded West Coast. Rumour has it that everything West of Darwin is either barren (land), flooded (roads), on fire (bush) or in some way deadly (crocodiles, snakes, Wolf Creek serial killers). Some of those things…
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Two weeks in Tasmania
The only reason why my first trip (after a month in Melbourne) took me to Tasmania was the weather. They get cold, wet winters down there and I just about made it over for the last few weeks of Autumn. In hindsight, it was a great way to start. The manageable size meant I had…