Trip to Cue...
Trip to Cue Western Australia
So the problem is how do I begin well we all have to start somewhere so I thought you might like to hear this true real story of my weekend away to go to a 60th Birthday party 600 miles from Perth which is where I live.
Well despite all the careful planning some weeks before and making preparations because it can be a dangerous trip being as Cue is right up in what we call the outback the actual trip was somewhat disorganised and unusual to say the least. To start with we were going to leave about 10 am in the morning on Friday but a few days before had a phone call about a distant relative that had passed always and to complicate things we went to the funeral on Friday morning about 11am so we did not actually end up leaving Perth till 2.30pm in the afternoon. Now the first part of the trip was mostly very pleasant with lots of country towns and very beautiful scenery [You have to see the Australian countryside and outback to believe how lovely it can be] anyway we about two thirds of the way their having past through towns called New Norcia Miling Pithara Dalwalinu Wubin and about 100 miles to go to Paynes Find when I had a sort of a blow out of the right rear tyre. Well I call it sort of because actually a chunk of rubber came out from the tread about 4 inches by 5 inches fairly brand new retreads too so I was not impressed as you can imagine although it was probably partly my fault . With a load of four adults and the baby and two extra spare tyre's plus the rear of the wagon full of luggage I had been about 15 minutes before trying to clock the Speedo which is 200kmh per hour and had had it up to 195 but she just wouldn't do anymore but when the tire went I had dropped back to about `145 kmh. Now I know this might sound dangerous and probably somewhat is but I am a good driver still even though I am getting old and the roads out that way have very long very straight stretches that go for miles and miles. The silly thing was that the tyre was still solid as no loss of air.
We went to change it anyway well I had borrowed two wheels off my son just in case, only trouble was my sons wheels needed Mag nuts and I had not checked that but fortunately I still also had a normal spare so we had to put that on all the way to Cue which was still quite a way. That sort of country is not the place to get stuck especially this time of the year what with the heat an all although later in the year is worse without water out on those roads and areas you can die of dehydration in a matter of hours if not from exposure. So anyway we continue through Paynes Find and Mt Magnet and eventually get to Cue at about 10.30pm that night, we had previously booked to rent a house up there for the weekend at what we thought would cost $80 Aus and there was supposed to be 4 couples sharing the house which would of meant $20 each but we find out that it is actually $80 a night and to top it off the other two couples didn't turn up although we did manage to get some relatives to take a room for one night at $20, still another costly mistake though. Well in the morning we went to the house of my brother in-law whose 60th birthday it was and he is a bit of a chunk collector so we my other brother in-law and myself managed to dig out 12 old mag nuts but they were very rusty, fortunately he also had a Tap and Die set so I spent an hour or so putting new threads in all twelve nuts by hand so that solved the tyre problem for the trip home. The next problem was of course we hadn't brought enough money to cover the extra cost of the accommodation so we phone my son in Perth to get him to transfer some Funds from his account to ours unfortunately being a Saturday he was unable to do this so the next resort was to borrow some off of the birthday boy, not a nice thing to have to do to him on his birthday but he did have some spare cash so that took care of that.
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