[Linux-aus] Getting to Everything Open in Gladstone

[Miles Goodhew]

All,
  Possible alternative: Get to Rockhampton somehow and take one of two daily 1:20 Greyhound busses down? $50-ish one way.

M0les.

On Sun, 15 Oct 2023, at 16:26, Mike Carden via linux-aus wrote:
> That's a good summary Simon, thanks for doing that.
> 
> It so happens that this week I drove a big chunk of the road from Brisbane to Gladstone. I flew from Canberra to Brisbane, hired a car[0] and drove to Bundaberg which is about 200km short of Gladstone.
> 
> Two things stand out about that drive. One is the fact that there is an amazing quantity of roadworks going on with choke points, speed restrictions (down to 40km/h), temporary traffic lights and general mayhem around all of that activity. The other is that it's a very busy route for heavy haulage trucking with more semi trailers and B-Doubles per kilometre than I have seen in years. And many of the big truck drivers are VERY impatient.
> 
> I like to set the cruise control to the speed limit and just get on with it, but more than once I had nudged the speed in a 100 zone up to around 110 because a truck with 90 signs stuck to its front filled my mirrors to the point that I couldn't see its windscreen nor its rego plate. So don't expect a particularly relaxing drive if you choose to take on the Bruce Highway.
> 
> --
> MC
> 
> 
> [0] Brisbane domestic airport car hire is tortuous [1]. You need to leave the arrivals area, go up either a lift or a moving walkway to an overpass in the sky, traverse to a three storey car park, get a lift to the ground floor, then find the particular hire car company you have booked through. And on the way back, you need to know that you have to take the International Airport exit from Airport Drive to find the Service Centre to refuel your hire car before then heading to the domestic airport Car Rental Return area.
> [1] It's easier at the International Airport which is just down the road.
> 
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