Road map

[den]

Distances are in red, travel times in minutes in blue

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/killjoy_/]

... wow. At the very real risk of stating the obvious, that's quite a bit of a drive.

WOW!!!

[ionotter.livejournal.com]

Good Lord! Now, THAT is a haul! Hope you had a good time, mate!

[atara.livejournal.com]

Australia's big.

[hopeforyou.livejournal.com]

Ah, memories. I've actually done that trip for the most part, except instead of taking 32 west, I took 39 south to 20, then 1 north to 87. I haven't done the trek between Tennant Creek and Darwin.

Ah bugger. Shoulda asked you to stop in this pub in TC and see if you could find a drawing of a unicorn I put there back in 1986...

[makovette.livejournal.com]

Now that Sir is a proper cruise!

Compares quite admirally with my journey's this past summer in fact, save I did my thing over 4 months, not a week+.

I look forward to the photos!

CYa!
Mako

Alice Springs

[ursuscal.livejournal.com]

Thanks to movies like "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" (my fav) and "Crocodile Dundee," Alice Springs is probably the second most familiar Australian place-name to Yanks next to Sydney. But my Dog, that place really *is* smack in the middle of the continent!

I share the enthusiasm of the others on your LJ in waiting anxiously for your photos. Quite a trip you've made. I had to convert your distances from km to "real" distance (miles, heehee) but was very impressed with the result!

Note: as a scientist and ham radio operator, I use the metric system all the time, and vastly prefer it, but bugger, but having grown up with the Imperial system, my frame of reference is still not metric. I can estimate with good accuracy how much a milliliter or a liter is, or a meter, or a gram -- I can tell you how many kg I weigh -- but when someone says "xxxkm away," I'm lost. I guess I just need more experience with it. Bugger the Brits for sticking us with their system. I still can never remember how many ounces to a cup, or cups to a quart, or quarts to a gallon. And though I know what "room temperature" is in Celsius, as well as some common temps for developing film, I can't step outside and say "Oh, it's about xxx degrees Celsius out here." ARGH! Hey, I know... I have a metric truckload of darkroom measuring thingies in S.I. units; maybe I could just clean them off *really* well, and use my cheapy calculator that automatically converts from Imperial to S.I. I can just picture Julie Childs now: "Add 0.5kg of butter to 0.75 liters of flour. Set the oven for 40 degrees Celsius." I know that might seem perfectly natural to you, but to me it borders on funny. }:xD