G'day,
A couple of years ago when I first started on Steemit, I did a few posts titled "Do Oz"...
Well, I stumbled across an old Photo Album which made me think I should re-start the series and share some of the adventures we used to get up to.
Who knows.......it might even inspire somebody to get out and have a look around the Great Land of OZ one day??
The main photo above is an old map of Australia that I framed with some old timber. Every time we did a road trip we would mark it on the map and sometimes add an old photo as well.
(some of the drawn in lines have faded a bit but you can see we have covered a lot of Oz by road)
Here's another photo of the map showing the whole wall and some of the historic things I collect.
Anyway, back to the point of this post!
In early 1990 we were living in Perth, Western Australia and we decided to plan and do an "Epic" road trip - it would be 12,000 kilometres, averaging 2,000 kilometres per week!!
It took huge amounts of planning and preparation but by the end of March we were ready to go (remember, there was no internet, no GPS, no smart phones back then)
My Wife and I both took 6 weeks off work at the end of April and off we headed........north into the warmer weather!!
Just the 2 of us with our trusty dog, Blade in our old Toyota 4WD.
(Please note: I have to take photos of the old ones as we only have hard copies in the photo album)
To finish off this 1st post on the trip, here's a pic of the hand drawn cover page we made for the photo album.
I hope you enjoy the story and follow to see the whole trip as I post them!!
