Pictures from the Road #1

"SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media" (silentbutnotreallydeadly) 01/10/2018 at 16:49 • Filed to: Life is a Highway, Australia

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We are moving. Our new town is roughly a thousand kilometres by road from where we are now. There is a more direct route but it saves only 80 kilometres and adds hundreds of kilometres of rough and remote dirt roads.

This is important as I expect to be driving myself back and forth between these two places quite often over the coming couple of months.

In an effort to entertain myself and be encouraged to spot frequently to prevent white line fever I’ve decided to take photos of the quirky, pretty or whatever things I see along the way. And then share them with Oppo...

We are just back from journey number 1 which involved finding us a house to live in. So here’s a taste...

Hay Plain

Kitchens, joinery and funeral parlour

Weethalie wheat silo

Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media 01/10/2018 at 17:51

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YOU’RE DRIVING ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE ROAD YOU OUTLAW. What is it like driving out in the middle of nowhere of Australia? Are the speed limits draconian and unnecessary? I cant see pictures of the roads there without thinking of Mad Max.

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) 01/10/2018 at 22:34

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Driving in the middle of nowhere in Oz is probably little different from doing the same in middle America. Though the distance between places may be longer.

Speed limits are what they are. The upper limit is 110 km/h and that is applied to most of the open highways out in nowhere. It’s the limit where that photo is taken. I don’t think it’s draconian. My car is getting close to the limit of its comfort zone at this pace and the fuel consumption starts getting expensive too.

Frankly it’s exhausting enough driving at this speed for hours on end without having to really concentrate as you would going faster. The roads are far from smooth and wildlife is not uncommon and then there’s the other drivers. Few cars are good enough to go significantly faster on these roads without it all going wrong at some point.

pip bip - choose Corrour > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media 01/11/2018 at 05:24

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great silo!

Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media 01/11/2018 at 11:09

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It just seems like something in the 130-140 range is more palatable over long distances. But that also requires well maintained, multilane, divided freeway which is probably crazy expensive over such large distances. It makes more sense in places like Europe where density is just so much higher. If the limit is 110 and they actually enforce it as 110, then that is REALLY slow. The way it works in the US is absolute nonsense, that going 30+ km/h over is the normal flow of traffic, but at least it saves time in regions without much traffic.

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) 01/11/2018 at 17:12

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NSW Highway Patrol will (if you are lucky) give you a 5% leeway on a 110 km/h road. Anything much more than that and it’s fine time. And NSW speeding fines are not cheap.