Driving To Melbourne And Back

[GiLa]

Did this three weeks ago, always wanted to do it since I knew how to drive as I drove from Sydney to Brisbane quite alot. While doing some work here in Perth a friend of mine said you wont mind doing a road trip from Melbourne back to Perth and I was like sure why not.

So we flew down to Melbourne picked up the car, and went to pick up another friend who was visiting Dandenong at the time. Anyways we stayed over at Adelaide the same day, tell ya Adelaide is quite different, the night life begins after 11pm. Anyways stopped at Ceduna was pretty nice area and noticed that theres an Oyster festival towards the end of September. Didnt really stop to do much sight seeing on the way back as it was already Easter Monday Holiday, damn work.

Got to the Great Australian Bight but pitch black and damn windy at night, so buggered that off really quickly.

Got to Boarder Village filled up only $2.17 a litre , also custom was really friendly and have to make sure you dont have honey. He did ask "where you thinking of getting to" we're like "umm Perth" he's like "yeah good luck the skippy's are bad around this time of night"

Anyways, we stopped overnight at Eucla as friends we're like it was raining roos everywhere.

Enjoyed the trip, always good with a group of friends I guess rather than by yourself. Would love to do it again, dont even think i would mind it solo but stretched over more days.

I would definately recommended to those who love to drive

[Royce]

+1 for being worth the drive, october last year flew to Adelade with a mate on a friday night, saturday morning picked up a R34 GTT stoped at a mag wheel shop bought some wheels for it as it was on stockies, got underway about midday saturday and back in perth midday monday (I was only one driving as mate had no licence at the time).

Then on easter saterday flew into sydney ~ 6am got taxi to the suburbs where a mate I was with bought a 1JZ powered Volvo wagon, Got on our way out of Sydney ~9am traveled through NSW top of VIC and stoped for the night in Renmark SA, left early next morning drove through SA and about 3-400?km in WA "Madura Pass" stoped for the night there, then the next day easter monday drove the rest of the way back to perth arriving in Fremantle about 6pm.

Both the above trips were a little risky as we had picked up the cars and began driving strait away with limited tools and supplys, and obvously no previous experiance (you get to know your car) in either of the vehicles.

After WTAC in august myself and another mate are planning to spend a week driving arround the south east corner of australia, canberra see a bit of snow, hopefully some snow boarding, drive the great ocean road and hopefully some other decent roads arround victoria before flying back to perth from Melbourne (figure 2 trips accross the middle is enough for 1 year).

/CSB Apoligies for spelling errors etc.