20 March 2012 – Well I reckon I am one lucky sonofabitch ! Radiator has been changed and after a quick test the head gasket appears to be intact. I’ll monitor the engine for a few days but it looks pretty good so far. So, all good, back on the road.
17 March 2012 – A month ago, I was swimming at Manly Beach, NSW, in the Pacific Ocean. Today I’m facing the Indian Ocean, on the other side of the country. More than 3000k apart. Brussels to Moscow is only 2500km…Hamelin Bay, this is as far as I can go heading west. From now, Read More
16 March 2012 Day Nine. 14-03-12 Today is Thursday, more than a week ago I experienced the last drops of rain, today is still a beautiful day. The sun wakes me up again too early. I really need to tint these windows. (And no, no curtains, it’s ugly and I would look like a, Read More
16 March 2012 Day Eight. 14-03-12 Daylight saving wakes me up. We’re 45min behind , this is Central Time. I get to the WA-SA border and the Quarantine Officer has me thrown out all my fresh produces : half a kilo of carrots, a handful of beans, a lettuce, even the garlic and the, Read More
16 March 2012 Day Seven. 13-03-12 Beautiful sunrise on the campground, over the airfield a helicopter takes off, most likely a couple of miners are on their way to work. It’s very common on these parts of Australia, miners meet their wives and kids at the nearest town and fly for the week to, Read More
12 March 2012. Day Six. 12-03-12 400k on the Flinders Highway.I didn’t sleep much until way past midnight as the bogans next door kept playing Midnight Oil and ACDC all night. To think that usually bogans have the Southern Cross star tattoed and make the typical anti-abo, then listen to Peter Garrett’s “Truganini” makes, Read More
12 March 2012 Day Five. 11.03.12 No more green, this is now dry yellow and red dust on the way to the Eyre Peninsula. It’s only a short drive as I desperately want to swim in the ocean, I stop here and there in the very few towns I drive through, one is advertising, Read More
12 March 2012 Day Four. 10-03-12 I get out of this crappy campsite as soon as possible and head to the first Mc Donalds the GPS can find. Not for brekky but for the free WiFi, as I absolutely have to fix the mess with Walkabout.be. For two days I’ve had no mail and, Read More
Day Three. 09-03-12 I slept in.It’s 9:30 when I get up, well on SA time it’s only 9AM. I must hide the veggies and fruit in the “secret compartment” or the damn cops will have me throw them away. Ten years ago with Manu we had to get rid of five kilos of fresh, Read More
12 March 2012 – Wednesday, March 07th 2012, this is it. This is now. The Long Way Home starts now. One last stop at SCS to fix the aircon belt and off I go. The start of, perhaps two years of, driving, discovering, learning. This is happening now.