{"id":2834,"date":"2020-10-24T16:16:17","date_gmt":"2020-10-24T05:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jandmf.com\/?p=2834"},"modified":"2020-10-24T16:16:20","modified_gmt":"2020-10-24T05:16:20","slug":"the-big-trip-change-of-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jandmf.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/24\/the-big-trip-change-of-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"The big trip change of plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-2834\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-2834-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-2834-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-2834-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget_text panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><h3 class=\"widget-title\">Our hand has been forced<\/h3>\t\t\t<div class=\"textwidget\"><p>Well seeing as COVID-19 has wrecked our plan and seeing as the cars gearbox still isn&#8217;t done we&#8217;ve decided to wait a while and aim for the Birdsville Races in 2021. Hopefully by then all the COVID-19 messing around will be minimised to the extent that we&#8217;ll be able to travel. By then the rebuilt gearbox will have had a few trips to prove itself too.<\/p>\n<p>The first thing to do is to plot a map and make an approximate fuel use and cost spreadsheet. The map is from Google Maps as are the distances and driving times. The spreadsheet is just something that I do for every trip to try and predict distances, fuel use, driving time and so on.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pg-2834-1\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-2834-1-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-2834-1-0-0\" class=\"widget_text so-panel widget_custom_html panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"1\" ><h3 class=\"widget-title\">The first draft of the new route<\/h3><div class=\"textwidget custom-html-widget\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m70!1m12!1m3!1d14805533.386506324!2d120.96500055096024!3d-25.04655389081748!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!4m55!3e0!4m5!1s0x6b29097817adc63b%3A0x50579a430a0db70!2sMoe%20Victoria%203825!3m2!1d-38.172222!2d146.267778!4m5!1s0x6a6873c6bb92d6fd%3A0x400eef17f2097e0!2sBirdsville%20QLD!3m2!1d-25.898889!2d139.351667!4m5!1s0x2b321c2bfac47793%3A0x40217a82a248470!2sAlice%20Springs%20NT!3m2!1d-23.698041999999997!2d133.8807471!4m5!1s0x2cc0a0fc9f59043f%3A0x30217a82a247c20!2sDarwin%20NT!3m2!1d-12.4634403!2d130.84564179999998!4m5!1s0x2c7a2efdfdcac62b%3A0xee8d4e90e9ff48c9!2sBroome%20WA!3m2!1d-17.9614336!2d122.235852!4m5!1s0x2bda44c0703c3a03%3A0x400f6382479dc10!2sGeraldton%20WA!3m2!1d-28.777371499999997!2d114.6149715!4m5!1s0x2a32966cdb47733d%3A0x304f0b535df55d0!2sPerth%20WA!3m2!1d-31.9505269!2d115.8604572!4m5!1s0x2a391986cdb08f67%3A0x400f6382479c070!2sAlbany%20WA!3m2!1d-35.027529799999996!2d117.88395899999999!4m5!1s0x6b29097817adc63b%3A0x50579a430a0db70!2sMoe%20VIC!3m2!1d-38.172222!2d146.267778!5e0!3m2!1sen!2sau!4v1603246784925!5m2!1sen!2sau\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:0;\" allowfullscreen=\"\" aria-hidden=\"false\" tabindex=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pg-2834-2\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-2834-2-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-2834-2-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget_text panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"2\" ><h3 class=\"widget-title\">A bit more detail<\/h3>\t\t\t<div class=\"textwidget\"><p>As you can see we have added more to the trip so we can take in the Birdsville Races. We went to the races in 2017 and had a great time, apart from a few flat tyres, so seeing as 2017 was a great trip we&#8217;ve decided to incorporate the races into our big trip.<\/p>\n<p>Last time we went up to Birdsville via Western NSW &#8211; Tibooburra, Cameron Corner, Innamincka, etc. but this time we&#8217;ll go to Birdsville via Bourke, Quilpie, Windorah and on to Birdsville.<\/p>\n<p>After the races we&#8217;ll head on over to Alice Springs via Bedourie and Boulia and after a restock we&#8217;ll head on up to Darwin and Kakadu.<\/p>\n<p>After a bit of a poke around we&#8217;ll head over to Broome and down via Geraldton to Perth. From there we&#8217;ll go down to Albany and then across the Nullarbor to Moe via Adelaide.<\/p>\n<p>In total Google maps tells me it&#8217;ll be a bit over 13,000 km&#8217;s. Of course it&#8217;ll be further than that because I haven&#8217;t mapped the side trips &#8211; Kakadu, west coast, south coast, etc.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pg-2834-3\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-2834-3-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-2834-3-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget_text panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"3\" ><h3 class=\"widget-title\">And so to a spreadsheet.<\/h3>\t\t\t<div class=\"textwidget\"><p>As mentioned in other posts, and earlier in this one, I like to make a bit of a spreadsheet for each trip. I&#8217;ve put two versions of the first draft for this trip up &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/jandmf.com\/files\/Fuel.ods\">OpenOffice<\/a> and \u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/jandmf.com\/files\/Fuel.xls\">MS Excel<\/a>. Feel free to download them and use them if you wish.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a pretty simple spreadsheet and is subject to change as we go along. It comes along with us on a laptop so we can change it, add to it, add notes, etc. Call it a rough outline of the trip and as with the map it&#8217;ll change. We&#8217;ll being doing detours, side trips, unscheduled stops, etc. along the way &#8211; especially Kakadu, the west and south coasts, and other places.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well seeing as COVID-19 has wrecked our plan and seeing as the cars gearbox still isn&#8217;t done we&#8217;ve decided to wait a while and aim for the Birdsville Races in 2021. Hopefully by then all the COVID-19 messing around will be minimised to the extent that we&#8217;ll be able to travel. By then the rebuilt &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jandmf.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/24\/the-big-trip-change-of-plan\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The big trip change of plan&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-big-trip"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jandmf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jandmf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jandmf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jandmf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jandmf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2834"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/jandmf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2855,"href":"https:\/\/jandmf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2834\/revisions\/2855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jandmf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jandmf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jandmf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}