" I'm a cool climate kind of guy anyway, so it would probably suit me fine to be toward the south! "
Ahh, okay, now we have found a problem.
You haven't been to Australia until you've driven into the North, and that includes people who were born here.
If you like crap weather you can always buy an early Bronco, take a fews days off and drive to Seattle; (and that would be pretty cool now I think of it) but the idea of coming all that way, kitting out a diesel County and not getting to the Kimberley, the Territory and FNQ just makes me want to weep.
