[Linux-aus] Getting to Everything Open in Gladstone

[Mike Carden]

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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