{"id":22988,"date":"2011-03-14T05:20:07","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T09:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/22988\/great-australia-road-trip-page-2\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T16:44:52","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T16:44:52","slug":"great-australia-road-trip-page-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/22988\/great-australia-road-trip-page-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Australia Road Trip \u2013 Page Three"},"content":{"rendered":"

Day 3 – Saturday – September 18, 2010<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Weather:\u00a0 Sunny, Windy & Chilly<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Destination:\u00a0 Canberra, Australia Capital Territory, Australia<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Odometer Reading:\u00a0 We forgot to record it and the rental company didn’t either.\u00a0 Guess they really don\u2019t care since the rental comes with unlimited mileage.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Price of Fuel:\u00a0 The tank was almost full so we didn’t need fuel today.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Route Taken:\u00a0 Sydney to Goulburn to Canberra<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Highlights:\u00a0 We arrived at the Cheapa Campa offices about 15 minutes after they opened.\u00a0 We couldn\u2019t have planned for better timing.\u00a0 They didn\u2019t have our 3-Berth vehicle for whatever reason and they ended up putting us in a 6-Berth.\u00a0 Same price, gave us twice as much room, but it was a much larger vehicle than we wanted to have to be driving.\u00a0 Lucky for me I won\u2019t have to drive it.\u00a0 I\u2019m just the co-pilot on this trip.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

We went through all the paperwork, did the vehicle inspection walkthrough, watched the instructional video and talked with the rental guys for a bit.\u00a0 They were really nice, but they couldn\u2019t help us with any questions about anything much out of Sydney.\u00a0 We then loaded up, turned on the GPS (with a smooth Aussie male voice named Lee), and headed out.\u00a0 I thought the Man would have some issue with driving on the wrong side of the road, but except for getting out of the parking lot (the side road was tight), he didn\u2019t seem to have any problems.\u00a0 At least I didn\u2019t suffer any white knuckle syndrome.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

We made it through the highway and toll road system of Sydney and were out on the open road without any problems.\u00a0 As we\u2019re driving into Goulburn, we saw a huge ram up ahead.\u00a0 I had read about Australia\u2019s love of huge things like this and one of my goals is to get a photo of every one that I can.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The ram is built around the building that houses the Merino wool shop in Goulburn.\u00a0 We made the stop so that I could get this first one.\u00a0 After snapping off a few, we went into the convenience store\/deli\/coffee shop next door to grab a coffee and a sandwich.\u00a0 I ordered a cappuccino and the Man ordered a short black thinking it would be a small sized coffee.\u00a0 Boy was he wrong, and it turned out to be a demi tasse cup of espresso.\u00a0 It was a tiny little thing, but it wired him out until we were almost to Canberra.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

We reached Canberra in the early afternoon and stopped at the Visitor\u2019s Center for a stretch and to find out what was in the area.\u00a0 I bought the first pin for my vest and picked up a couple of postcards.\u00a0 The Man grabbed a couple of the travel brochures and then we went looking for a place to stay the night.\u00a0 Unfortunately, everything in Canberra was full so we tootled down the road a bit and found a place in Queanbeyan.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Stops:\u00a0 Goulburn, Canberra and Queanbeyan<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Where We Stayed:\u00a0 We were lucky and got one of the last two spots at the Queanbeyan Riverside Tourist Park.\u00a0 It was a nice little place and it was right across from the grocery store which made it really convenient since we had to pick up supplies.\u00a0 The rate was $28.00 AU (from here on out all reference to money is in the Aussie dollar, which unluckily for us is climbing in value daily) for a powered site.\u00a0 The park was situated on the bank of a river, but we were so tired we never made it over to really see it.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Where We Ate:\u00a0 We walked over to the Coles and picked up some supplies.\u00a0 Some food stuffs for a couple of days, some beer for him, and some vodka cruisers for me.\u00a0 We\u2019re stuck with instant coffee since there is no coffee pot in the motor home just a water pot.\u00a0 Everything, especially the alcohol, was expensive (the 6-pack of beer was almost $20.00) and we ended up spending almost $100.00 for the food supplies.\u00a0 By the time we got back to the motorhome and put everything away we were just too tired to eat.\u00a0 Since our body clocks have not yet adjusted it didn’t really matter and we just went to bed.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Day 3 – Saturday – September 18, 2010 Weather:\u00a0 Sunny, Windy & Chilly Destination:\u00a0 Canberra, Australia Capital Territory, Australia Odometer Reading:\u00a0 We forgot to record it and the rental company didn’t either.\u00a0 Guess they really don\u2019t care since the rental comes with unlimited mileage. Price of Fuel:\u00a0 The tank was almost full so we didn’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,2,25],"tags":[651,2514,2513,2434,2512,2431,398],"class_list":["post-22988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-other","category-world","tag-australia","tag-canberra","tag-coffee","tag-driving","tag-giant-ram","tag-road-trip","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116512,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22988\/revisions\/116512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}