2 Oct 2016
Off to Canberra by 0700 this morning to get the journey done. Quite a nice morning, and all is well, as the water levels had dropped a bit and all the roads I needed seemed to be clear. Bonus, there wasn't much traffic travelling early, and it was a good, easy run. Quite a few of the potholes had already been filled, so there wasn't too much crashing into them, or too much ducking and weaving to miss them; there were still some shockers, though.
It was a non eventful trip, so there was time to ponder the fact that on this trip I have seen almost every farms dams and most small creeks and large rivers full, overflowing and running, some of them I have never, in all the years of driving through these areas, even seen with water in them! It really is an amazing country.
A random happening of the day would have to be being followed out of Boorawa and all the way to the Hume Highway by an MGTC, very cool, even though he did have the roof up. Managed to make it from Parkes to the centre of Canberra on 1 tank of petrol, 295.6 kilometres on 20 litres according to how much it took to fill it from past the E point on the fuel guage, so that is something like 6.77 litres per 100 kilometres, not too shabby for a 1955 car.
Canberra was as it usually is, Canberra, though I was surprised by the bad state of some of the roads and how the city centre is mostly deserted, with a lot of empty shops in there and not many people anywhere. A lot of other things to see, though...
It was a non eventful trip, so there was time to ponder the fact that on this trip I have seen almost every farms dams and most small creeks and large rivers full, overflowing and running, some of them I have never, in all the years of driving through these areas, even seen with water in them! It really is an amazing country.
A random happening of the day would have to be being followed out of Boorawa and all the way to the Hume Highway by an MGTC, very cool, even though he did have the roof up. Managed to make it from Parkes to the centre of Canberra on 1 tank of petrol, 295.6 kilometres on 20 litres according to how much it took to fill it from past the E point on the fuel guage, so that is something like 6.77 litres per 100 kilometres, not too shabby for a 1955 car.
Canberra was as it usually is, Canberra, though I was surprised by the bad state of some of the roads and how the city centre is mostly deserted, with a lot of empty shops in there and not many people anywhere. A lot of other things to see, though...
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