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Just pulled in the driveway at home. What a epic drive. I finished with 3745 KLM and 9.7 lph. Totally agree - the best trip so far. The XR6 Turbo is the one of the best touring cars around. Very happy with it's performance. Thanks guys. Can't wait for the next one.

I wouldn't buy a mac. The value for money and customization isn't there compared to building your own. I would build a pc and/or upgrade my current stuff. Have a good read of this link to wrap your head around it a bit better. You can customize your build to your needs and save a lot of money like that. You can always add more storage as you need it providing your motherboard has enough connectors. Here is a video clip that might help a bit. While it is not a perfect comparison by any means, there is some good info inside.

^this Jet and I are still like best mates. Yeah we disagree sometimes, but we never go to sleep angry or without telling each other we love each other and to be fair it doesn’t happen often. Having similar interests helps. We tune cars together, we drink at the pub together, we laugh at the same shows, we play golf, we go for walks, we have an abundance of date nights, we enjoy most of the same stuff. It’s like hanging with my bestie most of the time. We’ve had a lot of really hard times (through no fault of our own) and I think it’s made us stronger than ever. We still laugh like we just met and we still know how to make each other crack up, even at 2am when we’re exhausted from waking up with kids, we will still lose our sh*t laughing. He kisses me on the forehead and tells me everything will be ok when I’m lost, and he tells me every day that he loves me and he thinks I’m beautiful. He orders me flowers for no reason, even though I don’t expect them and I still make him sandwiches and a cuppa and take them down to the shed when he’s working. I think if u truly love each other then you will always just care enough to do those little things. Like tonight I’m exhausted after a 12 hour day on site, still project managing our builds on the side, finding somewhere to live and renovating another house, and he has made us dinner and got me an icy water as soon as I walked in the door and some clean towels so I could jump straight in the shower. I got a catch.... I’m very lucky. We’re coming up for our 10 years soon and I can’t believe how fast the times gone And I still find myself trying to ditch other things just to spend time with him.... we actually want to be around each other as much as possible. Ps... also having secs a lot helps too [emoji6] sorry freaky

The flamin cats have been running up and down my galv roof at night making a racket. I just went out and sprayed the top of the fence where they get up with tyre shine so hopefully that keeps them off it tonight?!

I believe that symptom is to do with the site search not allowing searches that are less than 4 characters in length, as those sorts of searches are very server intensive.

Enjoy Day 1 Devonport Hellyer Gorge Stanley Reece Dam Strahan

Would that be Snowies Cruise in Nov?

maintenance isn't the worst thing to be doing while recovering from injury. I can't wait to get into the gym again tonight since Hobart

So what a long weekend - OMG I kid you not - I had to keep the air-con on just to dry away the sweat from my palms for fear of steering wheel slipping through my hands (mind you it was 31 deg C on the West Coast of Tassie at one time). After I got off the Spirit of Tassie had to rush straight in to work as had a customer engagement all day so only now putting fingers to keyboard. I'd like to thank @Rab, @k31th and @YLD127 for making it a fun filled long weekend, great mates, spirited cars, phenomenal roads and rare blue sky balmy weather in Tassie This time we a good number of new roads we hadn't done on the East Coast and some faithful challenging West Coast twisties that we loved so much in Nov last year we had to do again. Tassie really turned on the weather for us - made for some awe inspiring scenery we'd not seen before due to overcast clouds and rain previously - like mountain ranges just rising up as you come over the hill and lake vistas that reminded much of South Island New Zealand and Swiss Interlaken. Gotta hand it to YLD127 for letting us stay at his place on the East Coast - farrk me was that holiday shack an awesome sleeper - if he told us earlier it has such panoramic views of Freycinet and Marie Island and its OWN private beach I would have suggested farrk stayin in Hobart and let's just base ourselves out of YLD's shack Thanks k31th for showing us the way - even with the myriad of let's say roads that did not stay sealed (well one of 'em was my doin ). And Rab plying us with beers even when we knew we should not have had a coldie (like after comin back from the Wine Glass Bay Lookout 1 hr walk quite frankly totally dehydrated and then drank something to make us even more dehydrated but farrk at least it was cold ... Well YLD - he supplied us shelter and used his local intuition for consistent picks for us to partake in Tassie home grown dining. All up for me 2105 km over the 4 days and on this trip there was reasonable number of locations for 98 RON (though not for Strathgordon - we had to come almost all the way back to New Norfolk for fuel but that was expected). I have not worked out the total vid footage yet but as a guide day 1 was about 149GB just from me alone. I'll try to post up some more pics soon.

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Buddy... PM @Rab to get your old username back.

Another excellent quality day of driving done Before going further south, stopped in Swansea for this photo and some fuel: Then later on we walked up Wineglass Bay Lookout in Freycinet National Park: Decent hike and scenery Then up to Bicheno for lunch (I'm sure Gary has good pics) and then up around some twisties in the region which may or may not have some stories to tell about it at a later time Got back to where we are staying tonight a bit late, but a quality BBQ dinner and some of the above made it all better Last day of quality Tassie roads tomorrow.

Despite coming from a state of serial killers & power blackouts, these^ two add a lot of value to this forum