Random thoughts and observations
I started a web poll on the newspaper website about older drivers. Do people think drivers over 60 are better, worse or the same as others? The question followed a series of incidents in the space of a few weeks. These included a 93-year-old man driving into a parked vehicle, an 88-year-old unlicensed driver crashing [...]
I mentioned in the previous post about crossing the Nullarbor that I saw a large number of oversize vehicles on the road. I wouldn’t be exaggerating to say we saw about 40 or so between Norseman and Port Augusta in two days. I can’t recall seeing any on my previous crossing in January 2006. The [...]
We successfully crossed the Nullarbor in two cars with four kids and arrived safely today in Moonta Bay on Yorke Peninsula in South Australia. We’re resting here a couple of days while waiting for our furniture to catch up. We’ll head to Mount Gambier on Thursday and unpack on Friday. We bought a house in [...]
“Rotary supports bowel cancer” proclaimed the headline in the (now defunct) Golden Mail. They were writing about the Bowelscan program, which aims to detect and prevent bowel cancer. In the Kalgoorlie Miner this week we dropped a clanger by describing a vehicle which caught fire as a Holden when in fact it was a Falcon. [...]
Western Australia has a hoon problem. It exists everywhere to some extent, I suppose, but I never encountered it in the parts of Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia I lived in previously. Hoon activity can be doing a burnout; dangerous or reckless driving; racing another vehicle, speeding, and accelerating or braking and skidding [...]
