WA Trip In 2002

Thought you may be interested in some statistics from our 6 month trip around the Western half of the country in 2002. We left Melbourne on 13th March 2002 and by a circuitous route went to Perth, up the West coast Broome Kimberly Darwin then down the centre to Pt. Augusta across to Dubbo then Newcastle back home on 7th. September. We were in our 2000 Ford Explorer, and towing a 1978 Jayco Dove camper van. We still have them both. Anyway we were away for 179 days. Cranked the Dove up and down 54 times. Travelled 23,697 Kms. Used 3724 Litres of fuel, which works out to 15.7 Lts. per 100Km. or 18.2 mpg.Cheapest fuel was at Tintinara in SA on 13th. March at 83.9 cents per Lt. Dearest was at Drysedale Station in the Kimberley at $1.45 per Lt.Average price of fuel was $1.01 per Lt.Total cost for fuel was $3790.00. A similar trip now would have to cost around double that ammount.Anyway I was cleaning out an old drawer, and found those records, and thought I'd impose them all on you.We had one hell of a trip, saw some places I'd dreamt of going to since I was a boy. Wouldn't have missed it for quids,and we'll probably do something similar again soon. Cheers to all.

Roger B.