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Road Trip 2006
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Dates: December 23 - 29, 2006
Destination: Sydney – Murray River – Lake Mungo – Broken Hill - Sydney
anywhere on the Murray River, drive to Mungo National Park, find the desert & the dried up Lake Mungo, then see what this Broken Hill is all about, & finally return home. | 
Seny gets a speeding fine from a fat police officer. 5 min later, Seny gets pulled over again, this time randomly. Christmas - bad time to drive | 
to drive through the forest & get rid of the trees for buildings & roads | 
- but this is us, probably few days into the trip | ||||||||
on the side of the road | 
illegal to bring any fruit or vegetables in your car. Shilman threw a mango at Shurik | 
It's coming back at you! | 
fruit. Don't ask why. | ||||||||
picture of the 4 Amigos. :-) | 
(Moscow - only 16,361 km) | 
over the road, ignoring 110km/h signs. To our surprise, well, mainly mine - none were found dead | 
to my surprise - move from the cars slower then cows. Or maybe people just feel sorry for cows. Or maybe, cows sleep at night, & kangaroos hop around & get hit :-) | ||||||||
call it - our Kingdom. See photo for more detail | 
the middle of some dried up forest - but next to a river. | 
with his very healthy vegeterian dish... | 
like this, & tasted, yes, very nice! | ||||||||
to watch Shilman set up his tent... | 
mattress... | 
off his books... | 
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love 'em! | 
Santa's car | 
of the forest. Shurik is woken up by noises that sound a lot like a bushpig breathing, right near his tent. After almost shitting his pants, looking through a tiny hole in the tent he notices Shilman, who's mattress has lost some air over the last few hours - blowing it up again. Deep breath...back to sleep. | 
Attack by a bear? Fuck knows, but no photoshop here :-) | ||||||||
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some worms | ||||||||
as 0 fish from the shore, we thought to try our luck & hired a boat. Yes, we are wearing matching fisherman's hats | 
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the smokes | 
killing whatever fish are left in this river by pissing in it. | ||||||||
caught! :-)) | 
We are on a roll!! Well not really, this is about all we got | 
Shilman is obviously not impressed. | 
for the sailor?!! he he he | ||||||||
uha, while Seny makes something vegeterian (notice, this camp-site even has a stove!) :-) | 
to be sexual. This is Seny trying a fish-eye. | 
we move on. This jumping pillow is for kids only, but look at us, do we look old? :-) | 
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with no speed limit. Good if you have a 4WD, but Seny still managed to hit 160km/h in this not-so-new Toyota Camry | 
the Outback here! (video also available - see below) | 
they call this The Great Wall of China. (it's true!) | 
mixed with sand | ||||||||
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sand country now! | 
for hours away. | 
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site. No fires. 40degree heat. Fine, we wont burn wood (we got coal) :-)! | 
bushwalk, found nothing so took a photo of myself. :-) | 
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the rules! | ||||||||
after getting extremely stoned, Shilman was given some chocolate, after which, by his own choice he smudged it all over his head. Five minutes later he angrily asked: Why the fuck is there chocolate all over my face? He really did not remember what he did :-) (video also available - see below) | 
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down the sand | 
a dive! | 
for Iraq | 
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animals, but quite a few kangaroos, emus & lizards | 
fun in the sand! :-) | ||||||||||
a town where you will experience the real Australian Outback. This is a restraurant, probably expensive. Used to be a mine. | 
recommended. | 
were in Brokeback Mountain, not Broken Hill. | 
says it all | ||||||||
some of the locals from the random pub that we stayed in. | 
These guys are actually really good! | 
some of the local birds | 
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is double the size of yours | 
many tricks she can do with it | 
sister, or maybe this is the 1st night they met | 
when you leave your camera unattended for 5 minutes in a Broken Hill pub. These were discovered only hours later. | ||||||||
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The locals think so | 
very popular | ||||||||
ago - but for us, no problem :-) | 
shouldn't be mentioned on a public website... | 
cowboys | 
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of death & ur x-husband's name | 
around | 
& we are driving home | 
like this - it's a long way home :-) Here are 2 videos from the trip, one of Shilman singing/talking to Queen's Bohemian rhapsody. Pretty funny, especially if you know him & understand russian. Second one is very short of just a bit of the road. (you may need to register 1st) | ||||||||