This is the day, that I take full charge of my road trip. Many (if not all) backpackers do a trip from Brisbane up to Byron Bay. It is common to buy a car for that, some take the Greyhound bus line. I decided to rent a Campervan (a big car remodeled so you can sleep in it). A friend from Sydney, Jeremy, got notice that he doesn't´t need to go back to Uni for a couple of months. So he volunteered to do this trip together with me. Set aside that he is a nice guy, it can´t be wrong to have an actual Aussie with you on the trip :D
Unfortunately he doesn't´t have a drivers license, but what are 1800km of driving on the left side, jumping from one roundabout to another, evading trespassing Kangeroos, Wallabies and Cassowaries. I am sure I will be fine :D
11:00 was pick up time in Brisbane. Our company is called Spaceships. You can see them everywhere on the roads. They are quite popular with tourists. After figuring out the fridge and bed: First duty: shopping at ALDI (in Australia by far the cheapest supermarkets). Pasta, rice, tuna and tomato sauce, everything a proper backpacker needs (according to me), Jeremy tends to disagree, so he will be cook while my job is driving.
And out into the wild. Since it wasn´t really cheap to rent such a vehicle, we decided to save as much money as possible by staying at free camping sites (usually in the woods near a road, usually no facilities like toilets …). It was more like camping. I really like it :D
Our first camping site and Jeremy “the cook” (since he didn´t drive and has a higher standard regarding quality of food). However, we learned that preparing dinner (or doing dishes) in the dark (after 18:00) is not very convenient. So from now on we schedule dinner for tea time (17:00)
Some people seam so live there permanently :D
21.03.2016
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