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Originally Posted by Outback Porsche
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G'day Y'all.
Only 820kms from home now. About to drive the length of the Sandover Hwy tomorrow. Camped tonight in the Camooweal Caves National Park. Real pretty bush setting next to a billabong. Filled up with fuel this Arvo in Camooweal, drove 200 meters down the street to the local supermarket, came out of said supermarket a little while later to find my right rear tyre had gone flat on the bottom. TPMS said 19psi - crap! Should be 40psi like the rest of 'em. 38 deg C is no fun temp to change a wheel in. Looked over the tyre to find a 2 inch cut right at the base of the side wall. I could stick my tyre iron into it and see steel belt. It's stuffed proper. Bugger! I'm in the middle of nowhere and down to one spare left and 800km of dirt road to go - could be an interesting couple of days.
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I looked up Camooweal on Google Earth. That is a very small town. Probably 50 buildings and an airport. I know the USA and Australia are about the same land mass, but we don't have so much dessert. When you are in the middle of nowhere you really are in the middle of nowhere. We can drive through Utah & Nevada and see nothing but rocks for hours on end. But we get to the other side and there is a big city there.
Several years Mrs Carrera rode with me as we drove Rout 50 in Northern Nevada.
U.S. Route 50 in Nevada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
That was cool. There was a mountain pass with fun curvy roads, and then it opened up into a valley that was a straight road that was just empty. Another Mountain pass and another long empty road. We would drive for 30 minutes or more and not see any other car.