Melbourne

The decision has been made. I am going on a road trip. I heading out with a girl I met in Malaysia and subsequently saw again in Sydney, one of her friends, and a guy I met in my hostel in Sydney.


We are going to rent a car and drive from Melbourne to Adelaide to Alice Springs back towards Adelaide and then over to Perth.


To get a better idea of where we are headed, if Australia was a clock we are going to start at Melbourne, about 4 or 5 o clock, head west to Adelaide at 6 o clock head north just up past the middle of the clock head back south towards Adelaide at 6 o clock and then head west down to Perth at 8 o clock. According to google maps, it is 5,871 km and will take 2 days and 21 hours.



Just to put into American terms (again according to Google maps), from Miami to Chicago to Portland,OR is 5,628 km and will take 2 days and 4 hours.



And in terms of Europe, from Athens, Greece to Copenhagen, Denmark to Lisbon, Portugal is 5,733 k and will take 2 days and 11 hours.



So it is a comparable distance as the above examples but is being done on worse roads so will take about half a day longer.



We will be basically be driving across most of Australia.

We wanted to drive straight from Alice Springs (the middle of Australia) across the desert to Perth, but it is a big endeavor. You need two 4 x 4s, walkee talkees, expanded gas tanks, large water reservoirs, and permits to cross the Aboriginal reservations. We have none of the above, so we are going to retreat towards the coast once we finish in the interior. The total trip will take less about 2 weeks. And once it is complete I will look for work in Perth. I will not go any further once I reach Perth without having worked for 3 months at least.

I am excited and looking forward to the trip. It should be exciting and allow me to see alot of country. We just need to look out for those Kangaroos. We were told not to travel at night for fear of hitting of them.