Diwundrin
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- Nth Coast NSW Australia
Just came across this piece might interest intending tourists.
The Tanami road. Whisper it.
I've 'done' it, decades ago, in a tourist coach. Guess what day the air conditioning unit in it karked!? Yep, that day.
It must have been 50C in that damned bus, no one carried water in those days so all the survival supplies we had was hot beer. The driver dragged a couple of cases of stubbies out of the luggage compartment that he was carrying for someone he knew up the track to keep us going. I felt sorry for the fella who didn't get his beer but we all threw in to cover his costs.
When we pulled our luggage out that night every bit of it, and worse, every single damned piece of clothing in it, was vermillion red.
That 'bulldust' is so fine it infiltrates everything and because the air-con wasn't going the pressure to keep the dust out wasn't going either. We were a really pathetic looking bunch getting off that bus. The locals were amused though.:glee:
Here's the 'track', and the article, worth a read.
http://blogs.crikey.com.au/northern/2008/10/31/worst-road-in-the-worldaustralia-the-tanami-road/
The Tanami road. Whisper it.
I've 'done' it, decades ago, in a tourist coach. Guess what day the air conditioning unit in it karked!? Yep, that day.
It must have been 50C in that damned bus, no one carried water in those days so all the survival supplies we had was hot beer. The driver dragged a couple of cases of stubbies out of the luggage compartment that he was carrying for someone he knew up the track to keep us going. I felt sorry for the fella who didn't get his beer but we all threw in to cover his costs.
When we pulled our luggage out that night every bit of it, and worse, every single damned piece of clothing in it, was vermillion red.
That 'bulldust' is so fine it infiltrates everything and because the air-con wasn't going the pressure to keep the dust out wasn't going either. We were a really pathetic looking bunch getting off that bus. The locals were amused though.:glee:
Here's the 'track', and the article, worth a read.
http://blogs.crikey.com.au/northern/2008/10/31/worst-road-in-the-worldaustralia-the-tanami-road/
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