Archive for the 'Adelaide Roadtrip 2009' Category

Here are some statistics from our trip.
Total distance travelled: 4741.8km
Total fuel used: 416.1L
Average fuel economy: 8.8L/100km
Total cost of fuel: $524.70
Highest fuel cost: 129.9c/L (Mildura and Swan Hill)
Lowest fuel cost: 118.8c/L (Clare)
Average fuel cost: 125.7c/L
Total days on trip: 33
Average distance travelled per day (including non-travel days): 143.7km

Final leg of our journey today – up early, quick breakfast and then pack the last bits into the car. It was nice and quick since we had done most of the packing the night before.
After checking out, we filled up the car with petrol and then headed onto the motorway towards Sydney. Not far [...]

Had a nice relaxing morning this morning – up to feed Andres breakfast and then we all headed down to the dining room so Leanne and I could have a hot breakfast. They have suits of armour decorating the lobby area of the motel, I took Andres for a walk to have a look but [...]

Finally got up and going at a decent time today – Andres slept well, and thus so did we.
We woke up to find it raining and quite a bit cooler than we had experienced over the past few days. I was beginning to think it would remain 42 degrees every day for the remainder of [...]

Managed to get going a little earlier today. Unfortunately Andres woke up again and was having difficulty getting back to sleep – he was very restless, even after bringing him into our bed to sleep. I ended up moving to the second bedroom where we had his cot set up and sleeping on the spare [...]