As noted a couple weeks ago, the roadworks on the Hume Highway [1] which have slowed my trips down considerably, have now been completed…well, almost. For some unknown reason, the westbound run towards Gundagai still has a decent stretch of “roadwork” slowing the road to 80km/h…I say roadworks in quotations, because I’m not convinced that closing the overtaking lane for no apparent reason and slowing the remaining lane down by 30km/h counts as roadworks.
Anyhoo, my trip was faster, taking only four hours and thirty-six minutes this time around.
I left home at 9:02am and stopped in Gundagai at 10:38am. I was back on the road at 11:00am and arrived at the hotel in Deniliquin at 2:00pm (I was surprised when both times were right on the dot). It’s a 495KM run, which makes the average speed 107.61 km/h.
As usual, Regional News headlines will be posted here on weekday mornings at around 9am over the course of the next two weeks.
Samuel
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#1 Comment By nbrettoner On August 31, 2009 @ 9:48 am
Hi Samuel,
Just about to catch up on your blog news etc, so no comments (yet).
During my nearly-sixteen years of touring on motorcycles, on several trips to-from Deni I too was impressed with the human mind’s ability to do calculations “on the fly”.
Wagga was 164 miles away, yet I could estimate to within 3 minutes my arrival time!. However any unforseen “roadworks” could well put an end to that.
#2 Comment By Samuel On August 31, 2009 @ 10:05 am
Indeed. I was saying from about Wagga Wagga onwards that I was on track for an arrival a few minutes after 2pm. Between Conargo and Deni though I was a tad nervous about that as my fuel gauge erroneously decided that I had run out of fuel…a good 40km or so of “so, how much fuel do I have left? It’s x hours return trip on foot from here”.