There is no too far.
So last weekend I realised my best friend and her wholly handsome family would be headed to New South Wales for two weeks holiday. This made the pair of us outrageously excited; giddy at the prospect of a weekend's respite amongst the madness of an interstate move and waiting for that perfect best-friend exhalation that occurs when two like-minded souls are reunited after weeks apart.
Gabi: You and the ginger can drive up and hang out.
Me: Absolutely. I'll leave work first thing on Friday morning and get in the van. We'll pack the hound and some bitching wines.
Gabi: We'll be up on the coast - I'm not sure how far the drive will be....
Me: It can't be any more than a few hours. NSW is relatively small.
Gabi: Sweet. Can't wait to see you.
Me: We'll probably get there in time for breakfast. Keep the coffee warm, LOL.
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This is how geographically retarded I am. Tim and I left Sydney at 10am. We arrived in Iluka at SEVEN O CLOCK IN THE EVENING.
Can you see right up the top there near Byron? That's where Gabi and Bob were. Can you see Sydney down the bottom? No? THAT'S BECAUSE IT'S NOT EVEN ON THE FUCKING MAP.
Honestly. It was worth driving eighteen hours to play scrabble with my best friend and flip off her baby and delicately hopscotch over bluebottle jellyfish on the beach, but next time I really need to learn how to read a goddamned map. What's wrong with me? 'New South Wales is tiny, we'll pop up for a lovely evening's entertainment'? I'm a professional fuckwad.
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(it's actually less than an hour flight from sydney to byron, but you probably don't want me to mention that)
No, I found out too late that we should have just flown to Coffs Harbour and hired a car. Professional pea-brainery at its best, folks.
It just NEVER ENDS.
I went up to Hervey Bay in QLD actually. You were nearly there...
There's wonderful things called GPS Units too :)
THERE'S NO NEED FOR SARCASM, YOUNG MAN.
no hairdresser is worth that in my opinion
A friend , and fellow fits fanatic, said the morning show just isn't you. how do you think its all going, in this testing period.
I think I may have just invented a word.
how are you feeling about it all?
do you sometimes want to shove your fist down Buckies throat or you know - at least the microphone sock
For my part, I think you're doing a stellar job on the Js.
The early mornings, the couch critics and the new city must be hard to swallow ... but you seem to be handling it all with your usual aplomb.
Keep up the good work, sister.
x
Anyway my tardo moment was telling one of my dealers to just drive down to Rockhampton to pickup the part, he was based in Townsville, and the trip is 7 hours. He told me I was an idiot .I told him it didn’t look that far on the map.
I was however young and learning the country
Plus we got to hear her mum crack wise.
lots of fun
No, probably best we all stay here.
also, just got back from a holiday in tassie, which we chose purely because of the ridiculous distances trying to get round NSW.
Bummer about the drive, but hey everyone has to drive the Pacific Hwy at least once in their life .. and before it becomes a safe dual carriageway instead of the blackspot death trap parts of it are.
google.maps.com
luckily roadtrips are so underrated - but next time get your friend to come to sydney and come to my holiday-house-escape-from-sydney... it's 40 minutes drive and a 5 minute boat ride. There's wine and cards and water - might need help with the scrabble though.
More than once.
V.Late at night.
Now that's sad.
(ps scrabble. wine. Gabi. Yes, it's worth it)
...?
The two families did, quite literally, not see other again for the next 27 years.
It's a big country, etc.
A certain lovely man and I are currently using this to weigh up the relative logic/benefit of stopovers on the move from melbourne to sydney. If our trusty blogger had plugged "Sydney" and "Iluka" into google maps she'd have realised how far it is.
This, however, would have meant that she may have made a logical decision rather than a wonderfully spontaneous one and I'm certain she wouldn't have had nearly enough fun!
Kristofa - my dad's family got off the boat in sydney precisely BECAUSE the rest of their family was in melbourne and they knew how far apart it was.
It is larger than 201 countries in the world.
These countries you drove across include France, Spain, Turkey, Afghanistan, Chile, the Ukraine, Zambia, and madagascar, to choose some random and exotic examples to illustrate my point.
My point being, you are a heroic explorer.
You think Magellan would have tried to circumnavigate the globe if he had even the slightest fucking clue how big the fucker was?
I reckon he'd have set off earlier if Gabi was waiting for him. Unfortunately, he was killed by some angry natives in the Phillipines.
Fits - 1
Magellan - 0
At night the highway belongs to the trucks; hundreds of behemoths zooming at 120 kph to get to Sydney or Brisbane by morn - no place for the weekend driver.
Travel safe, awright!
pardon?
You know 9 up plus 9 down = a bex and a nice lie down.
Victoria's biger than the UK
Tim and I left Sydney at 10am. We arrived in Iluka at SEVEN O CLOCK IN THE EVENING.... Honestly. It was worth driving eighteen hours
pardon?
.... yep that'd be a nine hour drive there and maybe a nine hour drive back...which together makes.....
honestly, kids these days etc
Convince say, the Buckmeister to start selling his sperm and hair to make the money needed to bring back the Myf.
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