Here’s how far we’ve travelled so far, and a larger version of the ground covered in this post. If only Wikicamps included more detail in their maps… The ground we’ve covered so far. Routes in red were covered in previous posts, the green is highlighted in this one To add context to the above map, the red line meets the green at Kalgoorlie, northbound the green line forks at Kambalda, Coolgardie is where the left green line meets the yellow highway, continuing north the route hits bumps at Ora Banda and Broad Arrow. The northernmost point of the route is Kookynie, and Kalgoorlie is nearly directly west of Coolgardie. With…

Pam and I experienced some culture shock from our hotel room in Perth. On the afternoon of December third, we rolled into town amongst more traffic than we’d seen since leaving Sydney. That evening we checked into our hotel in North Bridge, which was directly across the street from the RAC Arena where Kevin Hart was performing a stand-up act, and there were thousands of people coming and going from the show. But before we got there, we paid Vic and Sue at SBR Off Road a visit to introduce ourselves, and give them a rundown of our Bumblebeast. SBR would be reviewing the axle installation that was done back…

How far would you go for a cold one in a great place? What Pam didn’t mention in our last post is that before reaching Undara, we stopped to refuel in “The Lynd”. It was basically just a truck stop where four major outback roads intercept each other. When paying for our petrol we noticed the roadhouse (Desert Oasis Roadhouse) was selling a book called “Australian Bush Pubs”, a compendium of significant pubs in Austalia’s historical and remote places. It turns out that this place too was one of those notable pubs, and in fact the smallest one in Australia, called The Oasis. This was our second time happening upon…