One of the rules I came up with while driving the coast of Aus a good while ago was just "always fill up". Oh and also "carry a jerry can of spare fuel"
The first bit came after one day when I skipped a servo and then it was over half my remaining fuel further along the road, I hadn't seen another and I realised "well I can't go back. Shit."
The second bit got expanded to two jerry cans after I had to use one because even though I made it to the servo in rural FNQ, it was 5.15pm and they were already closed. Thankfully that day the extra 20l got me to Port Douglas.
We do still have a few remnants of the imperial system - "90 mile straight" on the Nullabor comes to mind. The longest straight road in Aus, or maybe the world I don't know. When you're already suffering brainrot on your multi-day Nullabor drive, the announcement that you're not even going to have to turn the steering wheel for over an hour is... well it didn't fill me with joy!
The first bit came after one day when I skipped a servo and then it was over half my remaining fuel further along the road, I hadn't seen another and I realised "well I can't go back. Shit."
The second bit got expanded to two jerry cans after I had to use one because even though I made it to the servo in rural FNQ, it was 5.15pm and they were already closed. Thankfully that day the extra 20l got me to Port Douglas.
We do still have a few remnants of the imperial system - "90 mile straight" on the Nullabor comes to mind. The longest straight road in Aus, or maybe the world I don't know. When you're already suffering brainrot on your multi-day Nullabor drive, the announcement that you're not even going to have to turn the steering wheel for over an hour is... well it didn't fill me with joy!