As of today I am in transit via the (mostly) trusty Monaro back to a life in Sydney. Yes, The Shed has been packed, cleaned and vacated and the Nullarbor and beyonf infinity beckons. The boot is full of ‘stuff’ (including water, spare fuel just in case although probably not needed) and a pile of essentials and Budweiser the Hound will be on the passenger seat scouting ahead with those keen eyes for hints of any problems.

Mostly flocks of budgerigars I am told – and no, hopefully not the Tony Abbott type but the green, blue and yellow feathered variety.

I also have the Monaro wired for video and sound with three fixed camcorders (Canon XHA1, Canon HV20 and Kaiser Baas Car Camera) and a Sony TRV 10E available for handheld to record the trip. My navigation will be true via a TomTom Sat Nav system, music powered by a Belkin FM system from a spare phone to the Monaro’s Bose 8 speaker setup, a Nikon dSLR is ready and waiting with an 8GB Sandisk card formatted to go and a Casio pocket camera with another 8GB Sandisk and GPS capability for stuff on-the-fly.

An HP Mininote will record trip notes, internet access is via a Telstra 3G USB stick, my main tablet is a Samsung Galaxy TAB 7” and I’ll watch recorded episodes of Spooks on my HP Touchpad at the various stopovers (Esperance, Madura, Ceduna, Victor Harbor and Echuca. The total distance is 4500Km give or take a bit!

I only forgot one thing. To ask anyone for sponsorship! So anyone happy to chip in oh, say $300 or so for major exposure on Auscam with the videos of the adventures I no doubt will encounter, record and voice over?

And if you are a pet food company, I can help you too!