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17 June 2012
Well, we’re done with Australia, hopefully. Both Troopy and Tanami are in Darwin, while we’re in Dili, in Timor Leste. Tomorrow, my friend Thor will drop the car at Toll’s, get the Carnet signed, and mail it to us in Dili with DHL. The reason behind all this ? Well, administrations f**ed up, as usual, and the Carnet was delivered four days late, so we couldn’t drop the car ourselves at the shipping yard.
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16 June 2012
Last February, I called the RACV (Royal Automobile Club of Victoria) in Melbourne to organize the Carnet de Passage. The person I spoke with told me he couldn’t do anything from Melbourne, and I had in fact to contact the AAA (Automobile Association of Australia). Since I had to go to Canberra to sort out various visas, I went to the AAA and spoke to Pepina, who was very helpful.
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15 June 2012
June 15th.
I promised myself I’d write one last post, reflecting the past five months in Australia, but there’s so much to take in here that I’ll delay that last post.
We flew in from Darwin this morning at 6:30AM and our small jet landed about 90min later in Dili International Airport. From the sky, the island looks very green, very lush, and very rocky. The volcanic mountains are everywhere, it’s a wonder the Portuguese navigators found the one flat spot to settle Dili. Everywhere else on the seafront is just one big cliff.
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