🚶Diary of a hop, Sydney to Melbourne 🚶
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Wow
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Nice dude
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I was gonna try to repeat your amazing feat...now I'm sure it's not worth the effort, but good on ya!
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4 June
Well back on the highway and the pace has picked up. Hop 1,050 had me on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere. Then as I hopped on a bit I realized in the rear vision mirror I had blinked and missed the town of Longwood.
Longwood population 155, is even smaller than my year in High School. I mean this town is so small that when the train line was being put in from Sydney to Melbourne they actually moved the town 4km's so it was closer to the trainline, that was back in the mid 1800's. Though like every town in Australia it does have the mandatory pub.
As the crow flies:
Distance travelled = 612km's
Distance to destination = 104km's -
6 June
What a horrible night, hop 1,100 had me on a side road in the middle of nowhere with the highway on my left and the railway on my right. I swear that hell must be trying to sleep with a freight train going past, aarrgghhh.
Anyway back to basics
As the crow flies:
Distance travelled = 647km's
Distance to destination = 78km'sWoo Hoo under 100km's to go.
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8 June
Getting close now, I can feel the end of the journey approaching. I have reached the town of Broadford on hop 1,150.
Broadford for me is famous as the birth place of Big Bad Bazza Hall. Big Bad Barry was the first Captain of the Sydney Swans, an Australian Rules Football team, to win the national competition in over 70 years. Barry was a tough man and played a rough game, he trained as a boxer so it was always fun to watch someone pick a fight with him.
Besides Barry, the town is in a pastoral district hosting a number of schools, pubs and a golf course. The population is between 3k and 3.5k.
As the crow flies:
Distance travelled = 672km's
Distance to destination = 47km's -
Nice tour and glimpse of the country.
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10 June
Hop 1,200 & down to the last few days of travel. I am heading into the outskirts of Melbourne now as I approach Kalkalo. Kalkalo is a town that consisted of a few streets, a pub and service station. But one which is growing fast with over 800 hectares rezoned and construction starting in 2008 when it is completed it will provide homes to 30,000 and contain a variety of businesses and services. A hand location only 33 km's from the CBD and 16 km's from the airport.
As the crow flies:
Distance travelled = 693km's
Distance to destination = 16km's -
Was nice to see you thanks for hopping by, maybe catch up in Perth if you come - keep hopping bro 👍
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Brilliant. I am truly impressed, my friend. Great effort 👍👍
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🏁 11 June 2012 🏁
🚗🚚💨__________________🚨💤Hop 1,235 I reached my destination of Melbourne Airport. What did this cost me?
(1,235 x $1,700,000 (cost of turf after upgrading and then tearing down) + ($100,000 x 1,235 (estimated average planting cost)) + (25 x $1,700,000 (turf not torn down)) = $2,265,500,000 (approx.).It has taken me 48 days to travel 709.9 km's as the crow flies but 870km's by road. Total turf count was down on my earlier estimate but cost is up a bit as I had not taken into consideration the marker turf left behind.
I would like to thank everyone who encouraged me on this trip especially Smokey (aka: Mr Killer G) & Customs Agent Ulyanov who both added a bit of excitement to the trip.
I have found hopping to be quite addictive actually so do have plans for future hops. Hopefully you have all enjoyed the thread and found it entertaining and a bit different to what else is in the forums.
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Congrats on finally making it!👍
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Nice work hyena....
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Most impressive
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ᏔλᎡᎡĮØᎡ wrote:
Nice work hyena....
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Congratulations, you have done something I would not have thought you would follow through with and actually complete
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☭Ʈჩع ཞعժ A͜ཞღγ☭ wrote:
Most impressive
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👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
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Congratz Bud 👏👏👏
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👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
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Congrats hyena🍺🍻🍺🍻🍺🍻
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Congratz Hyena 👍👍👍
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fachan wrote:
Congratz Hyena 👍👍👍
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Enjoyed this thread thoroughly and will miss it. Well done Hyena, mate.
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Congrats.
You just earned a place in Sydney Airport.
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Good read and a great job. Thanks and congrats 🍻🍻
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You deserve a statue in the TW Hall of Fame!
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