by Mark F » Sat 08 Sep, 2018 5:39 pm
In a small Kia you are not going to be off the black top so not much different to driving up the Hume to Sydney. The thing I learnt was to potter along at around 90-100kph and not try to imitate the Cannonball Run - helps with the fuel economy, limits overheating of the tyres etc. I also did a heap of dirt road/4wd track driving in my Forester again quite slowly - a loop around the East McDonalds (Box Hole Crater, Tower Rock, Binns Track, Arltunga, N'Dhala Gorge) Then Roma Gorge, Mereenie Loop, Painted Desert and Oodnadatta Track, Arkaroola and though to Broken Hill. For this you do need spare tyres, snatch straps, spare engine hoses, plenty of water, emergency communications etc. although I only had one puncture.
"Perfection is attained not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to remove".