After a few days of final preparations at Amanda’s folks place we were finally ready to take off on our first leg of the trip —a quick shakedown tour of the SW of WA to get an idea of whether we had; Too much stuff Not enough stuff Needed to modify our stuff Had the right stuff !!! (figuratively and literally) Certainly by the way the car felt we had more than enough stuff. The normally aspirated, standard diesel landcruiser 100 series not ever being renowned for setting any land speed records, was certainly not going to be setting a cracking pace fully loaded. 100kmh downhill with a following tailwind was likely to be the best case scenario.Still we have a year to get around so saving ourselves the odd half hour in the day was
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