in March it was time for my isolation fix so I headed north and as it turned
out into a blistering heat wave so that wasn't going to work I tried again but
this time things wouldn't perfect I'm Andrew st. Pierre White join me as I
share my passion for building four-wheel drive trucks and traveling to the
remotest parts the world
this is where I turned around but 10 kilometers from the town of Leonora
Laverton 100 kilometers more of asphalt and then bush track and so now about
three and a half months later dings trip over again at 16 degrees it's almost 30
degrees cooler than it was that March afternoon and now hitting basically East
and the next probably four days on a very remote Bush track
last bit of pecking it is uncharacteristically rainy and Marcus
normally still very hot I live in the city of Perth half an hour north severe
the Perth is by far the largest city in Western Australia this is my cat meet
YouTube she doesn't like youtubers I'm I'm seconds from leaving I wanted to
show you I don't think I've done this before I'm not sure how about ever done
before okay when I'm traveling on my own this is my cab it's already looking a
little bit shabby but that's because I haven't put things in the final places
so I carry my camera equipment normally is in the back I'm traveling with two
people I've got a special place with my camera equipment in the back right using
it I'm actually using a camera bag here it's easier to get it from the seat than
it is opening the back every time I want a camera the driver out of Furth will
take approximately one hour that's one hour until I get out of the the built-up
metropolitan areas by then I'll be in farmland speed will increase and it's a
bit of a trudge because speed limits are very low and that's why it actually
takes an hour but the traffic in Perth of all the cities I've ever traveled in
big cities it's it's really not bad we have nothing to complain about in Perth
and for those of you new to the channel the vehicle I'm driving is called a Land
Cruiser a 78 series it's nicknamed the troop carrier it's a van style vehicle
there's two doors at the side and the barn doors at the back but being a van I
have over to the inside into something very
very convenient it's like a tiny house most of the day later
I've stopped for fuel and it's hot the very but the wind was like a blast
furnace during the space of just three hundred kilometers has climbed from 32
degrees to 41 so it's a decision I have to make
the thing is that the Sun is setting and it's not getting any cooler and there's
a lot of wind so it is really unpleasant outside so because this is what I've
come out here for I've come out of here to be to be kind of
adventurous you know so I am prepared for a little bit of discomfort 41 and a
stiff breeze is not uncomfortable that's fire and brimstone that's health Steve
Martin played banjo and Robin ended up renting in a Scottish voice about the
colon and clogging effects of haggis haggis each as we are saying all done
well as you may have gathered I've taken a motel it's too hard
I drove a bit the temperature went up and they gave me a complimentary 150
lashes Earl I stopped I walked around for five minutes and I realized that it
would be an unbearably unpleasant night the temperature actually went up to 41
so it's not cooling down it's actually of anything warming up and so I got to
decide what I'm gonna do tomorrow because tomorrow as far as the forecast
goes he's gonna be hotter than today well that is most welcome and very nice
what I want to do is gonna have a shower it's crazy just arrived and all I want
to do is spin over and back the car gets Colette the food out and close up and
get in the air-conditioned room going house for this is not what I wanted but
then again you're all trips planned
still wanting an isolation fix I decided to actually head back south and do part
of the Holland track and I still need it my isolation fix so a whole day on
asphalt that's all it takes to get into you so that's the best
the deal shortest possible time to get into the
really real Outback one day one good solid date
850 kilometers issue
that day I've made it on to the very furthest western section of the and
bedell highway and find myself utterly alone been a long day I I rolled out of
my camp sided at six o'clock with actually before 6:00 this morning
and I had a I had a lovely day driving it's been a it's been fantastic and the
last section actually the roads quite good I expected
it to be very much much much slower much much rougher and only the last 20 cases
been rough other than that it's been actually quite nice and very thick bush
lucky to find myself clearing this clearing I think it's probably as a
result of mining if you've never travelled alone before it's a unique
experience in that you are you only have to worry about yourself particularly if
you are like I am now well out of mobile phone range so I am
completely isolated in I am I haven't seen anybody since I left the asphalt I
have not seen it another human being I'm alone I only have myself to worry about
and that little machine in the sky there nothing else it's a wonderful experience
if you've never done it do it
right the map you can see Leonora their lab returned there that's where I fueled
and I'm gonna up here Pierre up here and started getting rough
around here past the abandoned mine which is really nothing and I'm about
there now I was thinking about getting to the campsites here that's the rough
roads got a bit rough that would be another hour or so so I decided not to
do that and tomorrow night I guess I'll be somewhere around neo Junction and I'm
going to be heading south on the Connie sooth down here so tomorrow today I made
very good time actually better than I thought I would and this is an
experiment I don't know I I don't know where I'm gonna be tomorrow and that's
part of the pleasure of it and I but I'm gonna try and be back in six days only
because the whole point of this is to it's a what can I do
out of Perth inside a week six days total travel time with one day extra in
case of issues here and there or you get lost here in there and add add a key
nayad viewers will notice that I have a new set of rubber yes I have some Falcon
mud terrain tires I'm giving them a try as many of you know I was the global
ambassador for BF Goodrich tires for three years and actually had a
relationship with that brand using them almost exclusively for 12 or so years
but now it's time for some experimentation so being their global
investor meant that I didn't do any reviews of any other cars because well
why would you believe me if I said anything negative about another tire
that wasn't the brand BF Goodrich but now that's no longer the case so I
thought it's time for me to try some other brands the first one I'm gonna try
are the Falcon wild peak mud terrain the size I'm gonna fit a 2 6 575 on
the same 16 inch rim I've gone a little bit wider mainly because I want a little
bit of improved performance on road a little bit of more grip same tire size
diameter as the two three five 85 on the 16 inch rim which is about a 32 inch
touched like slightly less than a 32 inch diameter tire so if you would like
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joondalup they've been enormously helpful in my quest for my research I
found it difficult last night to get used to the silence to be honest with
you you know when you're camping on your own
the silence is absolutely deafening you hear the slightest sound in it and I
found I found it easy it difficult to to actually relax and I think it's quite
common for me that I love traveling on my own but I don't enjoy the night's
much I find there's a certain tension I have beautiful gorgeous morning I just
filmed a story about panel solar panels mounted on vehicles etc etc that video
if it hasn't gone up already will will go up soon where I've learnt over the
years about using solar panels satphone goes into my emergency bag and this is
the bag that I keep behind my seat and it is for emergencies it contains in
fact I've done a video on it and it basically is in the event of an
emergency like a fire vehicle fire or something like that I can grab it and
just that's and it has my cell phone in it obviously and it has a survival kit
this is where I tried to make last night it's actually taking me an hour and a
half to get here but I did stop to UM set up a few cameras so probably an hour
so I would have been I would have been here quite well after dark so I'm
actually also glad that I didn't come here because this fire it's still quite
warm there were other people here so I I actually glad I
I picked a lonely spot that are surprised in the bush lake eel you white
e o homestead I wonder if people actually lived here once I guess they
probably did since there are there are up this is a it's a national park to see
sir moat on the walls everywhere are stickers and little notes where so if
you you find yourself in trouble than that are in need of rescue you can
actually the closest place of 65 kilometers you'd have to walk there or
if you were in a convoy somebody could drive there to get help it's a very very
remote I've done a hundred kilometres today and it's already ten past twelve
actually that's not too bad since I lifted nine that's actually not bad the
roads been rough and of course now this is the would be the western reaches of
the great Victorian desert I've been paying close attention to my
fuel consumption the route I've planned is at the far end of the Land Cruisers
Range 1061 kilometers what I've measured on the map if I can make it then I want
to make sure that I have at least a
hundred kilometers range left in the tank
when I reach my destination quick break a beautiful spot here and I thought well
camping you know not a lot of landmarks around occasionally you get beautiful
followers first and then dry barren scrub and then occasionally a landmark
like this and then nothing so but it's too early it's ending up worst one I
want to get some more mileage behind me today
it's a pity actually I can just hope that there's something better ahead I
think about this landscape it's all very very flat and occasionally Hills like
this and they thought of their monuments to time they're the last vestiges of
what of something else and you can almost by looking at the rocks see how
time has pulling them off the cliff and eventually that will be the same as of
that Anne Rosalind Bedell 1906 1941 - 24th of November 2010 that's not very
long ago wife of surveyor Len Bedell and after whom this highway is named highway
good good Anya her ashes were placed at woomera by her children and
grandchildren in April 2011 how nice
well I've had to do
put up with us today quite a bit the corrugations get so bad that if you try
and drive them fast you'll break the vehicle so you just have to enjoy them
at low speed I must say the corrugations on the env Dale have been as bad as they
were on the canning stock
some of the worst I've ever had to so I am very grateful to have reached Neil
Junction the place that I had intended to stop at tonight
I haven't seen a single human being all day which is well actually quite nice
and I do have a decision to make do I head north on the Connie Hsu
highway or do I have enough fuel reserves to head south it's a longer but
I think probably a more interesting route but I'll probably leave that for
tomorrow