June 2013 pt 2 - Current Planned Route

Well I have been working through some maps and web sites and have decided on the third planned route so far this year, so it will probably change yet again, though it would be great to be able to go with this one as it covers areas mostly that I have not seen before, rather than travelling over roads that I have already done in the past (admittedly not necessarily in The Count though). I have checked out a few forum groups and some other information on the web and it seems that all the routes I have decided on so far are actually fairly much all sealed roads, besides people tow caravans over the roads so I think a Morris Minor should be able to make it as well. This is the proposed route

(sorry the quality is not the greatest, will have to try another scanner and replace it later if it works better) Currently the total distance works out to be approximately 24,061 kilometres (14,950 miles) and it includes some back tracking points, but worth it for the experience and seeing lots of "otherwise never going to get there" places. Given that it is possible to try and figure out what it will cost in fuel and such working with a few random guestimated input data, thus: Supposing that The Count has a 22 litre tank and that it is running at 8 litres/100 kilometres and that fuel is averaged at 172cents/litre it would be working out at: Total Litres - 1925 No: of Tanks - 87.49 Cost - $3,272.00 AUD So given that I can play around and come up with various figures that range from a cost of $2,695 to $6,256 for that cost of fuel for the whole trip by varying the average fuel consumption and the cost of fuel at cents/litre. Certainly is an interesting exercise