Day 48 – Toowoomba to North Ryde
Travel Location: North-Ryde,Australia
Last day of travel. We seem to be done we camping and sightseeing for the moment. For the last time we checked out of a caravan park and started to drive the roughly 900 km along the New England Highway towards our home. Really looking forward to have a nice big bed, proper shower and not needing to fold the bed bag in order to have breakfast. We reached North Ryde about 8 pm and had dinner at the same restaurant we ate just before we left. Our travel ended officially at 9 pm on Wednesday 17 December 2008. We have quite an amazing trip behind us and here are some nice facts about our trip:
Total km travelled: 16,329.5 km
Average travelling speed: 80.9 km/h
Top speed: 136 km/h (overtaking on a NT highway with speed limit 130)
Number of fines: 0 (yippee!)
Number of hours driving: 201 hours 51 minutes
Highest point of our travel: 1,861 metres above sea level (Mount Hotham on Day 3 of our travel)
Lowest point: 12 metres below sea level (near Lake Eyre South) or 16 metres below sea level (diving at the Great Barrier Reef)
Southern most point: Cape Otway Lighthouse (Day 9 of our Travel)
Northern most point: Darwin (Day 28)
Western most point: Kata Tjuta (Day 22)
Eastern most point: Rainbow Beach (Day 45)
Smallest Town: Williams Creek (population 2)
Biggest Town: Melbourne (population 3.85 million)
