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Alzero

Alzero

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There was a photo story in the Washington Post today about this road. I’ll link to it so you can take a look. Is it very accurate? All I really know about life in that part of Australia it what I’ve seen on TV: Mystery Road seasons 1&2 and Origins. And all the gold and opal mining shows that were so popular on Discovery a few years back. It all looks quite bleak and inhospitable and yet strangely compelling to someone who spent several years in Arizona.

 
Link is a fucken pissant. But, yes there are some rather inhospitable areas in Australia

Here’s a picture I took on route to Adelaide from Brisbane a couple of months ago.

Not much happens out there

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martymoose said:
But you've got to come and see it, but only from the seat of a Laverda
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I intend to, probably in a couple of years. We are going stay in South America for 6 months, spend another 6 months in Europe then on to Thailand, Vietnam and Bali then Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand. We are looking for a place to retire and live out our days. We have a good friend who is moving to Bali whom we want to visit so Darwin isn’t that far.
I’d like to buy a used car or Ute in Darwin or Perth and sell it in Brisbane. I understand we can get a 12 month visa and I expect that will allow us to drive all over the place? Does that sound like a doable plan?
Once we pick somewhere to settle down I’d like to sell the big ole RGS and get a 750 or 500 for Sunday rides. By then I’ll be pushing 72, no need to push my luck with a 1000!
 
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Very doable. Marty did a circumference in 6 weeks but a year would be heap of time to go through the centre as well.
Lots to explore and the remoteness is beautiful. Think they're slowly paving the road mentioned in the article.
Haven't done it personally but have many mates that do it every couple of years depending on where the Off Centre Rally is held.
BMW GS 80/1000 terrain. My Devil's Undies sidecar mates sort out those type of roads.
 
I’d like to see some car and Laverda events as well as the scenery. If I go to enough winery tours and tastings I might be able to get the wife to come with me to a race or two! Certainly something classic, bike or car. She actually is not opposed to a long weekend at the Classic IOM.
 
Definitely a good idea to go to Australia before New Zealand.
Tourists who start with NZ get spoiled with so much outstanding scenery, wine, food, beer, beaches, animals, mountains, glaciers, lakes, beautiful men, strong women, history, monuments, and the best motorcycling roads in the world, that they find Australia a bit of a letdown
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chrisk said:
Link is a fucken pissant. But, yes there are some rather inhospitable areas in Australia

Here’s a picture I took on route to Adelaide from Brisbane a couple of months ago.

Not much happens out there

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'My Country'

I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror -
The wide brown land for me!

Dorothea Mackellar
 
Alzero said:
We are looking for a place to retire and live out our days.
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What are you looking for? City living, country escape, green hills, forest, river, desert, mountains, seaside, nice motorcycle roads, proximity of services, etc.
You can find all of the above in Australia, but not necessarily all in the same place.
 
Ahhh, found it. Fred Dagg's version of the NZ National Anthem.

God loves New Zealand, he gave us boiling mud,
God's the full quid, because that isn't all he did,

God gave us rugby, you can't kick boiling mud,
God's the full quid, because that isn't all he did,

God gave us sheep, you can't sleep with boiling mud,
God's the full quid, because that isn't all he did,

God gave us Australia, you can't live in boiling mud...
 
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