They said I am crazy.

[Pickle]

Just drove from Kangaroo Point in Brissie to St Albans in Melbourne in one stint.
Left at 5am Brisbane on Wed morning and arrived home 1am today.
My wife reckons I am a nutter for driving that far in one hit!
I felt fine except for a sore butt!
What do you reckon.....nutter or what?
Dave

[Jaster]

Sounds about right to me

[peterdeg]

Definate nutter.
You think you're ok until you wake up [maybe] wrapped around a tree.

At least you did the bulk of it during the day. The last couple of hours would have been the iffy bit.

[Pickle]

In my defence I did stop o/night on the way up as I was feeling tired. But because I am sailing to Tassie tonight I needed to get back.
I did have a flight booked for yesterday to Melb but cancelled as I would have had to fly back up there after Tassie and drive the thing home anyway.
If I had felt tired I would have had a kip on the side of the road....but felt pretty good.
A few stops for fuel and coffee along the way helps and talking crap to the truckies.
Dave

[Stroker]

So was that 20 hours behind the wheel...I failed maths sorry......Stop Revive Survive every 20 hours isnt that the saying??

Cheers Glenn

[Pickle]

.....Stop Revive Survive every 20 hours isnt that the saying??

Cheers Glenn

I believe it is every two hours according to the sighns on the highway. Also lost an hour due to time change Qld and NSW. Woke up at 7am this morning so could not have been to knackered. Maybe drinking that slab helped me stay awake on the drive home
Dave

[peterdeg]

Maybe drinking that slab helped me stay awake on the drive home

Man I hope we don't have any members of the press here.
Harold Scruby would have a field day!

[Stinky]

that's a big drive. i used to drive bundaberg to townsville, bout 12 hours, in one hit. stopping at mackay for fuel & food. no we live in gladstone its only 9.5hrs or there abouts.

[Pete & Mon's NS]

Yep, you are! Thats one hell of a drive for sure.

Surely you felt absolutely drained at the end of it???? However, never done it in a car with cruise, or with an auto. And you did have a tight deadline to meet.

I did Adelaide-Melbourne-Adelaide in one day to inspect, test drive, inspect, more test drive, a car with an old work colleugue of mine. I know, not that far (7.5hours each way ).

I drove all the way to Melbourne, and that was fine. But about half way back to Adelaide I was falling asleep until the Duramin's kicked in (don't ask - long story). Never again - we were then awake for almost 48 hours, and we both had eyes the size of dinner plates when we got to work Monday morning! We slept through most of work on Tuesday though - he was the bosses son so I didn't get into trouble

At least he bought the car - would be pissed off if he said no!

Peter

[nj swb]

Some people have NFI. Up at 5, bed by 1 - a 20 hour day (or was that 19 hours, with the time difference? - how fast were you driving?)

Stop when you're tired. If you're not tired, why should you stop?

Now that you've had some practice, why not come to Adelaide for a weekend?

[rajuhn1933]

i was on the road on that same day too as well left gold coast at 6am strait to cooffs harbor passing by the lighthouse at byron bay on the way back did it all in 12 hrs got home 6pm of the same day gold coast time

[Pickle]

Only kidding about the drinking.....chockie milks and coffee's.
Dave

[actpaj]

I did Brisbane to Canberra in 8 hours a few years ago. Left at 8pm pulled into mums driveway just after 4am. Driving my 87 skyline, lets just say i had a good run down the newell hwy.

[peterdeg]

Stop when you're tired. If you're not tired, why should you stop?

The danger is you don't know how tired you really are.

Been there, done that, will never put others in that position again (hence the soapboxing)