The BIG Trip - leaving next week!!!

[LRHybrid100]

G'day Guys,

Not been around much the last couple of months for various reasons - mainly too busy building up the D110 to my vision of the Ultimate tourer!!! see my website LRHybrid100 Website (http://www.users.on.net/%7ELRHybrid100/) under "D110 Details"

My Long Service leave starts next week, I have also tagged on all my annual leave and some unpaid leave - why not I have resigned!!! Let them struggle :cool:

So we don't really have a schedule - leave late next week and return back to Sydney for November(ish) but we plan to do the following route:

Sydney / Wagga / Mildura / Broken Hill / Port Augusta / Roxby Downs / Coward Springs / William Creek / Coober Pedy / Oodnadatta / Marla / Yulara / Kings Canyon / Hermannsburg / Alice / Yuendumu / Rabbit Flat / Wolfe Creek / Halls Creek / Bungle Bungles / Kununurra / Wyndham / El Questro / Kalumburu / Mitchell Plateau / Fitzroy Crossing / Broome / Cape Leveque / Derby / Drysdale River Dampier / Eighty Mile Beach / Port Headland / Karajini / Exmouth / Onslow / Ningaloo / Monkey Mia / Kalbarri / Geraldton / Cervantes / Perth and then back towards the East Coast

If your interested I will try to update my webpage LRHybrid100 Website (http://www.users.on.net/%7ELRHybrid100/) under "Travels" which pulls in a Google Map of our trip.

If anyone is travelling around in these areas or lives anywhere along this route and wishes to meet up at any stage just post up some details in this tread or email me from my website.

I hope to keep the Solihull brand alive out in this great land of ours (yes I am now also an Aussie)

See you all soon and wishing us luck

LRH

[Bushwanderer]

Hi Mark, As you know, I am very envious.

Have a great trip!

I look forward to your reports.

You're an Aussie? Bull****! You don't sound like one. :D Nevertheless, welcome to the fold.

Best Wishes,

[hiline]

:spudnikwaving:have a good trip mate and travel safe on your adventure :D

[numpty]

Enjoy your trip and I hope your Land Rover gives you nothing but pleasure.

[weeds]

have a good trip mate

[dullbird]

good luck mark do your best when you away in filling us in

remember you need anything when you are away be it parts sent out what ever give us a shout just make sure its before oct.....;)

its a real shame we are not going to be crossing paths:(....still let us know how oodnadatta goes....as we are hoping to come down that way home

[LandyAndy]

LRH
May the Landrover Gods smile upon you on your journey.
Ive saved your link to my Favorites to watch.
If you intend traveling Perth to Albany via Albany hwy you will travel thru Williams(160ks south of Perth).Im rite behind the "Williams Woolshed" on the Hwy(you cant miss it) call in see if Im around.Your welcome to camp the nite if we are around.
GOODLUCK
Andrew

[Defender=1st]

Hope you have a great trip mate

[D110V8D]

Have a great trip Mark. :)

Make sure you spend plenty of time on the west coast (Exmouth and Coral Bay in particular). I regret not spending more time there when I did "The big trip".

So have fun, slow down, relax, enjoy, drink, be merry, catch a few fish, drink some more and return safely.:D

[malleefowl]

Hi Mark,
Leaving mildura July6-Pt Augusta-Alice-Tanami-To all places west.Expect to be away 3mths.We might catch up somewhere and get a pick of 2 beaut vehicles.Keep an eye out for the 'green machine",
Cheers,
Mary

[Bushie]

Enjoy yourselves :D:D

Around 3 weeks and I"ll be off as well (for 6 weeks).


Martyn

[Disco300Tdi]

Have fun Mark, as Mick said drink and stay safe. :D
I will be watching thru your website..:)

[dobbo]

have a good trip.

[Pedro_The_Swift]

Wondered where you'd been LRH:p

Will be keeping an eye on your updates,,,

Travel Safe.

[JDNSW]

Have good trip, and keep us updated. I'm not on that route, but if coming near Dubbo on the way back, give us a yell.

John

[Redback]

Have a great trip Mark & Helen, ya lucky bugger:D

Baz.

[LRHybrid100]

Cheers guys,

going to plan we should leave next Friday and return November - will be on Next G wireless broadband so will be able to pick up emails and PMs while we are travelling.

Hey Mary, any pix of your car so I know who to look out for?

LRH

[Nick S]

Hi Mark
sounds like a great trip. I'll be in the Kimberley for 3 months (LSL also) and be in Broome at end of July then up Gibb River Rd and Kulumbaru etc. Be good to catch up. Hows that fuel tank going? Its the one I sent from the Alfred Hosp a couple of years ago
Cheers
Nick

[LRHybrid100]

Hi Mark
sounds like a great trip. I'll be in the Kimberley for 3 months (LSL also) and be in Broome at end of July then up Gibb River Rd and Kulumbaru etc. Be good to catch up. Hows that fuel tank going? Its the one I sent from the Alfred Hosp a couple of years ago
Cheers
Nick

G'day Nick,

Yes I remember you, still in the same place? It often reminds me when I see that medical program filmed there!!!

So what you driving these days?

LRH

[waynep]

Keep in touch when possible

[Bush65]

Have a great time and stay safe.

Nice 110 by the way.

[Nick S]

G'day Nick,

Yes I remember you, still in the same place? It often reminds me when I see that medical program filmed there!!!

So what you driving these days?

LRH

Hi Mark
living in WA for the past 2 years and working at Royal Perth Hosp. Still driving the 1990 Rangie but changed a lot from last time we spoke. Give me a call on 0414560929 when you are in the Kimberley, be good to catch up for a beer! Have a safe trip.
Cheers
Nick

[LRHybrid100]

Currently in Coober Pedy having spent the last week on or around the Oodnadatta Track - off over the NT / SA border tomorrow to some warmer weather we hope :o

LRH

[LRHybrid100]

website being updated:

LRHybrid100 Website (http://www.users.on.net/~LRHybrid100/) under "Travels" tab

LRH

[dullbird]

website looks good mark

i love the big chair, now i want my photo taken on it...can you imagine what ian would look like on it:o:D

are you guys starting to relax now your journey is very much underway?

[LRHybrid100]

very much so - it takes a couple of weeks to wind down after the flurry of all the preparations. This is why I am glad we have taken our time to get where we want.

We are currently in Yulara - actually sat on a bench using some power supply to recharge the laptop :wasntme:

We are staying here a couple of more nights than planned - as we did in Coober Pedy but that all the fun of our trip.

We saw the sunset over Uluru last night and will again tonight from yet another spot.

We got up this morning before sunrise (7.31am local time) and saw the sun come up over Uluru and then did the walk around the great Rock itself - amazing, you see so much more than if you climbed the rock which as a matter of fact the climb was closed due to high wind conditions on the top.

We will get up before sunrise again tomorrow morning and take some more pix and then off to Kata Tjuta (otherwise known as the Olgas) to do another walk "The Valley of the Winds" before lunch and some more relaxing.

Its a hard life......

LRH

[LRHybrid100]

website being updated: Currently in Alice Springs

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LRH

[noddy]

Looks like you are doing it tough!

[LRHybrid100]

website being updated: Currently in Broome

LRHybrid100 Website (http://www.users.on.net/%7ELRHybrid100/) under "Travels" tab

LRH