Gotta love it when family are interstate and those special occasions come around.... gets you away from your daily grind. Even if it is an 11 1/2hr Road trip, with 2 teenage boys...
It was back to Trangie, NSW for our nephews 21st birthday celebrations (can't miss that), so here are a few images I took on the road (you get a bit stir crazy in the passenger seat, you know..) so I often will 'snap' at anything that moves... or doesn't!!
Firstly there's the truck traffic - this was the afternoon's stretch between Goondiwindi & Moree...
We have been doing this trip almost annually since the kids were babies, but they are really starting to fill up that back seat now...
And of course, can't forget the driver!!
Then we see Cotton Fields... YES, Cotton does grow from a seed :)
(& don't forget this is taken from a car travelling at 100kmph)
and tumbleweeds...
Circular Cotton Bales - apparently there are 5 bales per strip as this is what fits on the trucks (although some will squeeze on six).
And then there's the story of my 2007 Mitsubishi Outlander - Oh how I love 'Ruby' ('cos she's Red).
Normally we will fill up at the half way point - Goondiwindi, but this day we decided we still had around 140klms of fuel left in the tank (according to Ruby), and we were sure there was another fuel station half way between (Yep, was wrong about that too, Boggabilla being last fuel stop), and it was only 124klms to Moree, so we kept driving... and driving... and driving... looking at the fuel guage getting lower, watching the guide posts with how many more klms to next town, and I must say just a tad little worried if we'd actually make it into town or not!
The fuel guage gets down to about 40klms left in the tank then disappears just showing a bar at the bottom, then the little Petrol Guage sign starts to flash, then when it's really low, we discovered it flashes REALLY FAST...
As we were rolling into Moree, they have changed the roads around (redirected the traffic), but we were sure if we took the old route there was a petrol station just on the right hand side. Yep, it was still there but as we rolled in it had signs on the bowsers "No Fuel here"... BUGGER... so on we plod, still gently rolling and we can see the next saviour on the left... I swear to you, if it had not been or the strong tailwind pushing us along, I am sure we would have been pushing. So of course we thanked 'Ruby' and her efforts of not leaving us stranded and I just had to capture the 'empty' fuel guage and that we had travelled 565.7 klms on a 50-60Litre tank of fuel. (averaged between 9-10 litres per 100klms) I know.. probably not the best fuel consumption, but did us proud anyway!
We made it to Trangie unscathed.....
Namaste...
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