Day 244- getting petrol

31 Agust 2012- On the way home from dinner with my mum, stopping to fill up the car

Day 187- View from a moving car

I have wanted to take a picture of the landscape viewed from Cunningham's gap for the better part of a decade.  THe problem is it's a narrow two lane "highway"with little in the way of shoulder (and large chunk of that fell off a couple years ago) and nowhere to stop that has a view.  Solution- burst shots from the new camera.   There a lot of blurry shots of trees and road signs for this one- which still isn't the best.

Day 153- whoops!

1 June 2012- The road in front of my work is a narrow one way street. The section right in front of my work is a no parking area (denoted by the single yellow line painted on the side of the road.) Because there are three backpacker hostels in the area, parking is ok a little further down the road and parking in the area is not always available: we have a steady stream of illegal parkers. Problem is, this is a road often used by delivery trucks and not infrequently by fire engines. While there are spates of ticketing by the council, thy can't come everyday. This is what sometimes happens when a vehicle cannot, doesn't want to, spare the parker. The other side of the road has a tall fence and a steep drop to the railway lines. It was a brand new car, that now has a lot of damage! If you are travelling in Australia, be aware that the single yellow line means no parking.

Day 128- in traffic

7 May 2012- Driving back on the last day of a public holiday- always a frustrating proposition.  The slowdown to a crawl started at the southern end of the sunshine coast, and added an extra hour to the trip.  We were pacing an RV in the other lane that was towing this trailer with a little roadster.  There was a t least one wings and wheels event over the weekend, probably where this was returning from.

Day 14- drat

14 January 2012 - on our way down a ruralish road, in Rochedale, the car had a massive flat (big enough to be unrepairable the next day). One of the things that irks me about the current car is the lack of decent spare. All we have is a dount, which just looks bizarre. I know there is no room, but this is one of those things that is not fun, and a decent sized wheel would have made me a lot happier. pictured here, the old tyre.

Day 339- old car

5 December 2011- I had to go to a warehouse area to help sort christmas gifts witht he Salvation Army. One of the other tenants was an old car specialist mechanic.

Postcard 122- France

Received 27 August 2011 from France.The sender took this photo for a group of old car and motorcycle enthusiasts. And the card was in French (yay, practicing my french!)

Day 224 - Car rinse

13 August 2011- Greg decided to give the car a quick rinse- something that would have been totally inconceivable 12 months earlier! Taken with the Hipstamatic app, which gives it all a sunny nostalgia moment.