29 Jun 2026

 29 Jun 2026

Heading home and not a horribly early departure, though not a late one either. Didn't want to wake everyone at the motel, so I pushed the car to the main entrance and started it down there. Very quiet on the roads, which is great, as the fewer trucks steaming along behind you, the better. There was a huge thing quite a while back when trucks were all speed-limited to 100 kilometres an hour. Well, that is obviously a thing of the past as not only don't they display 100 speed limited signs any longer, they are usually right up the back of you, trying to make you go faster, and when they get a chance, they road past at speeds that are well above 100. I have even had them sitting on my tail, trying to get me to go faster when doing 110kph on my motorbike. Additionally, during all the travels I have had in the car, the only place where you get road-raged by truck drivers is in Victoria; not too sure why that is.

Anyway, uneventful run back to Melbourne, the only trouble being that the car seems to be struggling more and more to get up hills. Once up to speed, it is still just humming along, but it really struggles with hills, usually back to 2nd. Definitely needs someone to look at it.

So, the total distance covered was 4,809 kilometres (2,988.17 miles), and it cost $657.06 in fuel. The longest distance covered in one tank of fuel was from Nanango to Texas in Queensland, 315 kilometres (195.73 miles), at (so the fule app tells me) 14.74 kilometres per litre, or 41.64MPG (Imperial).