Home sweet home - but the adventure will continue

Very quick trip home. Approx 3,000 km to get home and we were determined to get home as quickly as possible. So we left very early and arrived at our destination just after dark and made it home in 3 days.

Pete is not an early morning person. ie on the road at 5-6 am to complete 1,000 km's a day. What was also against Pete was the weather. The temps were very cold in the morning. 5ish degrees C. Pete did not have winter gloves or heated grips. His summer gloves gave no weather protection and after a few km's Pete couldn't feel his hands and fingers. He soldiered on, putting his hands on his engine block for warmth, but the speeds were down. I had no issue. Winter gloves and heated grips. I was peachy warm and didn't understand what the fuss was about :)    

All things are good with Mum, so the ADVENTURE WILL CONTINUE. I want to see more of Western Aus and the Nullabour. I have listened to so many people complain about the boring Nullabour. During our trip home, we flew passed so many tourist turn offs and I will stop at them this time. Personally I liked the Nullabour. Especially on the SA side. Scenery kept changing as you traveled further east.

My itinerary is flexible. It's the end of the tourist season as the temperature is now nudging +35 degrees C and will get higher. My 3rd attempt at this adventure, I will be driving my VW Golf GTD. Sports power with the advantage of great fuel mileage, being a diesel. I'm happy, as I can now take luggage (esky, food and fishing gear) and the air con will be going.

My only must do's include, Fowlers Bay (Nullabour fishing), Lake Ballard, Pilbara and then ????? Any ideas folks?

Leaving tomorrow.

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Nullabour Roadhouse. This is one of the roadhouses on the Eryre Hwy. They are located on average 200km apart, however the distances vary between 80kms to +300kms. Given our limited fuel capacity, we had to keep an eye on fuel mileage.

Watch out for animals. Serious, during the day, Pete and I rarely saw a native animal.

LOL - Pete was on my heals as we entered a town on the Nullabour. As I rode into the 1st (and only) petrol station in town, I waited and waited. I was very low on fuel, so I had no choice but to fill up and then go searching. I peed myself laughing as Pete was 300 metres from the petrol station on the side of the rode. He ran out of petrol.

Peter didn't change his rear tyre during the trip. Knobbie rear tyres have a short life when ridden on the road. Typically we get 3,000-5,000 kms from a rear and Pete had already done +7,000. The rear had severely boxed itself - ie flat surface. Needless to say, Pete did not / could not lean into corners. He slowed down at corners from Adelaide onwards.  

Farmer taking sheep to / from market??