As far as stupid ideas go, this started off with the best of them. Somewhere amongst the mind numbing tedium of preparing design documents for uni coursework the idea sprang about:

“ever plan to travel round Australia?”
“yeah, of course”
“hmm…but not soon right?”
“dunno – I’ve often thought about traveling across the nullabor, and then you could go down to Melbourne without too much trouble”

The idea was soon dismissed as unachievable and thrown in the “pipe-dream” pile. It sat there, festering for several months, discussed every now and then but never with much seriousness. Then as holidays loomed it was aired out and examined. Maybe it wasn’t such a stupid idea after all. I mean, we had a car that would probably get us there – and if we could field a car of four, it wouldn’t be that expensive.

After a little more planning it looked like it might actually happen, we had four willing participants, a healthy fear for fuel prices, a car, two tents and a whole lot of fried noodles. What would happen next was anyone’s guess.

Posted in Travel on Wednesday July 3, 2002.

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