After all that driving, Drew and I turned touristy after all. We prepared for the inevitable fact that we would find Adelaide “just okay” and never want to come back again, and had planned to see a good smattering of everything Adelaide had to offer before we never returned.
We warmed up our tourist chops by [...]
Archive for September, 2005
all the other stuff that doesn’t fit elsewhere (part 4)
Posted in australia, travel on Sunday, 25 September, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
the thing that we went for (part 3)
Posted in australia, cargobrrrrmmmmm, travel on Saturday, 24 September, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Believe it or not, there was actually a purpose in travelling to Adelaide, which I guess I alluded to in a previous entry. Driving with like-modelled Peugeots, 20 206s, all in a row. It’s hard to write about this event without sounding a little like I’m writing a glossy brochure. But it really was the [...]
ditch the plan, let’s have a roof over our heads instead (part 2)
Posted in australia, cargobrrrrmmmmm, travel on Friday, 23 September, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
The original plan was to stay in motels on our way down and then whip out our beloved tent when we arrived in Adelaide. The organisers of the Peugeot event were staying at a beachside resort that had plenty of camping sites and we figured that would be good enough for us. We forgot the [...]
5074 kilometres (part 1)
Posted in australia, cargobrrrrmmmmm, the weather? of all the things you could write about, travel on Thursday, 22 September, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
5074 kilometres is a long round trip in a car these days, especially when it may have been more financially responsible to just hop in a plane. But you can’t do that when you’re driving halfway across the country to go in a car event. And besides, Brisbane to Adelaide is some of the best [...]
first frivolities, then drinking
Posted in cargobrrrrmmmmm, teach me, travel on Friday, 9 September, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
My high school formal wasn’t anything to ever reminisce about. That was my fault, I must admit; I had entered my “Holier Than Thou” stage of my adolescence and spent the entire evening not participating, thinking that actually made me cool because I was choosing not to engage in the forced frivolity.
Ten years on, I [...]
