Highway to Hell

I'm back on the road!!!

Ryan's best friend Gamble is coming back to Wollongong and he's bringing his ute and boat back with him. So he asked if Ryan and I want to fly up to Darwin to meet him and do the road trip back south with him. Something like 6,000 miles, through the red Australian outback, over to Northern Queensland (home of the Great Barrier Reef) and then alllllll the way down to Wollongong.

I've done epic road trips before - when I was 18 I drove from Vancouver to San Francisco in 22 hours in a '67 Impala with a boyfriend and his best friend on the 4th of July. This road trip is going to have a few more variables, and it will also be way way way longer.

Potential obstacles that could be considered "cons":
- The first two or three days will be in the red Australian desert, where temperatures can reach 45 or more
- I'm driving with a fairly new boyfriend known as Ryan Behavesalot Scott and his best mate Gamble, who has a mullet and an earring
- We're driving straight into a category 4 cyclone aka Australian for big ass hurricane. This thing is going to be massive but we should miss it by at least a couple days...
- And if it looks like we're going to drive straight into it, we'll be driving through Walkabout Creek. That's right Crocodile Dundee fans, home of Mick Dundee.

Awesome trip highlights will include:
- Swimming at Aerlie Beach, apparently some of the most beautiful blue water in Australia
- Checking out the Great Barrier Reef and possibly FISHING there :-P
- Checking out Surfer's Paradise, Brisbane and other amazing Gold Coast spots I wanted to check out earlier but couldn't because of the floods.

So yes, this trip will be awesome, but it will be treacherous. For much of the journey we'll be sleeping in swags, an Australian mini-tent which is like a tarp over a mattress. Did I mention that Australia is home to 8/10 of the worlds deadliest snakes and pretty much all the spiders in the world that want to fuck people up?

But as my wise kung fu instructor told me, the other side of fear is fearlessness. So I'm flying out to Darwin tomorrow, chilling there for a couple days, then getting down on this road trip with the boys and bracing myself to see some beautiful Australian scenery.

Wish me luck!!! :-)

Darwin Weather