This is the bit I love... Waking up at Turkey Creek, on my way to Kununurra, the big Cat engine springs into life and as the sun begins to peek over the distant range, I answer its salutation with my ...
Kimberly Cool
May 18th, 2012Getting Heavy
May 6th, 2012I've spent the last three months and around 43000 kilometres getting my head around this heavy haulage caper and it's been a generally pleasant experience. I've had six or eight runs across “the paddock”, one across the top and a few ...
In Giants Footsteps
May 2nd, 2012One of the best things about doing loops around the world's largest island is the distinct lack of traffic. Hauling out of the east coast capitals, drifting west through the likes of Nyngan and Cobar, what traffic there is becomes friendlier ...
Vote for a Star
April 22nd, 2012A long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away... well not quite but didn't one of the greatest stories of our age start that way? When I started this blog I never imagined that anyone would want to ...
Great Whites
March 27th, 2012About five months ago the team at Great Whites approached me to try out their new LED driving lights and after clocking up around 10,000 kilometers with them mounted on the bull-bar I'm still saying "Wow!". They've illuminated my path ...
Hello Newman
March 13th, 2012We'd travelled the almost five thousand kilometers from Nebo, Queensland, to Newman, in West Oz in reasonable time. Certainly we hadn't hurried but we'd wasted nothing either, only to be told there was to be no crane until the twentieth... ...
Making Tracks
March 13th, 2012The second truck finally arrived from Brisbane, time to farewell the barmaids and put my Jackie Howe back on... We craned a set of excavator tracks onto the floats, one each and at 47 tonnes a piece they make for a ...
As Good As A Holiday
March 3rd, 2012My initiation to "the Paddock" went without incident, save for a couple of blown air lines. Two more items have been crossed off my bucket list, cross the Nullabour and drive a Road Train, certainly it wasn't a triple but ...
The Journey Continues
March 2nd, 2012Day two, the real day two, of my sojourn west... I dragged the second trailer down from Coonabarabran to Gilgandra and reassembled the Road Train ready to continue westward out past some old memories as I use to Jackaroo out ...
To Those Who Wait
February 12th, 2012Day one arrived, four days late, but it arrived and not a moment too soon. The final few hours, when I knew I was about to leave were the worst and my mind was little able to cope with the ...