 okay can you see that it's 5 34 in the morning that means that we're about to head off to cans my friends and as you can see behind me the the sun's just coming up unfortunately we're not gonna get out of here in complete darkness but it's okay at least it's not something like eight o'clock in the morning so I aimed for four I got up at five instead and now we're leaving Alice Springs at 5 30 I just filled up the car for the first time that is one thing we're gonna keep consistent on this trip is every time I fill up the car because it's gonna be a fair few times we're gonna count that as one so I'm gonna put a little one down in the corner every time we stop it's gonna go two three four five six I think it's a little car we probably get about 400 450 Ks out of a tank it's about 300 miles I would say that you got to think about it because there's only certain you know stops that have fuel along these roads you know so if I've got half a tank left and I know I'm only gonna get 200 Ks out of it but the next petrol station is 250 Ks away then I've got to turn around and go back and that's happened a few times but let's hope that doesn't happen this time so I would say seven times we're gonna stop for fuel this trip 1420 miles I'm gonna stop talking and get into it I've got an audio book I just told you I was about to stop talking but I'm not going to look I've got an audio book I'm about to listen to it's a it's an investing audio book a property investing audio book and it's exactly what I want to listen to right now something inspirational something that is gonna give me about four hours worth of entertainment and hopefully without even thinking about it so in about four hours we're gonna be at our first destination which is Tennant Creek and then we're gonna hang a right from there and head over to Queensland and that is a road that I've never been on I've only kept continuing going straight up to Darwin I've never actually turned right and gone over to Queensland so it's gonna be a new road but there's still not gonna be much along it and I'll see you there all right everybody for anyone who watched my last travel vlog you would have seen this exact sign I don't know if you can see it but it says Teetree Roadhouse guys actually you can see it here boom Teetree Roadhouse 180 k's down the road the time we can find it is what does it say no we can't the cars not gonna be a good start what's the time what does it say 721 721 Tuesday the 22nd of January and I am halfway through the barefoot investor audio book and it's going good so I'll see you guys at Tennant Creek which is at around about 500 k's so I've got I'd say at least two and a half hours until we get there and then I'll be filling up again which will be stop number three and we'll continue from there all right guys quick piss stop I'm not gonna lie but I thought I had to do this I had to do this at one point come and show you guys exactly what I am dealing with right now look at it there's nothing and there's no echo because there's no walls or anything around me look at it oh it is pretty beautiful in its own way look at my car look at this shit it's so low it looks like I've taken the springs out of it and I took the hubcaps off as well so it looks gangster I've got a gangster burina anyways no time to lose as you know we've got a mammoth task ahead of us let's continue see those guys they landed last night hello all right guys I thought it was fitting for me to stop here just quickly I'm getting a drink and nothing much else we're not getting any petrol so that is not stop number three yet but this is whitecliff well and you know what I'm gonna get in the car and do a little search on exactly what whitecliff well is famous for but it's something to do with aliens I know that much UFOs aliens apparently this this area of the Northern Territory has had like the most UFO sightings and history or something like that let's check it out where is whitecliff well that's not good enough your phone has no signal so I can't help you with that at the moment fuck you your phone has no signal so I can't help you with that at the moment all right let's continue Tenant Creek our first major town of the trip and our third petrol stop quarter past 10 in the morning I'm watching an interview on YouTube with Dennis Wolfe a legendary bodybuilder and I'm feeling good Tenant Creek is pretty much just one road that goes through the whole town we're still on Stewart Highway this highway goes for 3,000 kilometers guys between Adelaide at the bottom of Australia and Darwin at the top and so just after passing through here Tenant Creek I will be making a right turn and heading right to Queensland which I've never done but first petrol all right guys I think it's about time we take the advice of the sign take some free parking and roll up a little smoke what do you guys reckon roll up hashtag roll up well lucky for you guys I had one prepared earlier now Tenant Creek's a funny one for me you know anytime I'm on this road whenever I'm heading up to Darwin Tenant Creek is like that first stop that's actually significant you know what I mean so that's where we are I still haven't eaten anything yet it's what is it 25 past 10 we've done 550 K's first 550 K's we've done in less than five hours in a car like this I guess that's pretty good so from here like I said we're gonna turn right in how many K's let's last thing want to do is go past the turnoff I've done things like that before I'm not saying I do it all the time but I certainly have directions to cans from my location what does it say 21 hours and 24 minutes lovely okay guys we're turning right on to route 66 believe it or not so all of my American viewers would know all about route 66 and it seems that's taking us from Tenant Creek all the way to Mount Isa now I have been told that this road is a whole bunch of absolutely nothing but we're used to that aren't we guys so I think we can do it I'm listening to some Gary V that I've downloaded so hopefully I learned something that's all you can really hope for honestly it's traveling by yourself these long drives they don't oh look there we go 646 K's awesome I've nearly done that already so I'm about halfway there and it's only 1042 I might continue driving again get a bit further possibly have to see 640 K's it's nothing it's like four hours no it's not probably gonna take six hours I will see you at our next petrol stop which will be because obviously this tank is only gonna get me about 450 K's and I've got to get 660 down the road and I don't even know if you guys can hear me right now I can hear myself oh my god take off my headphones the road noise in this car is unbelievable so it's essential to have some big headphones actually so anyways I'm gonna shut the camera off and concentrate bye alright guys we've just pulled up at a place called Barkley homestead and I had been recommended this by a work colleague actually to get a pie so there's not much around there's a roadhouse and a road train as you can see and some fuel so I'm gonna fill up we're about got half tank I'm gonna fill up about 450 kilometers to go so I think I'm gonna be able to get there on one tank which is good and I've gone around the wrong way which is fine we're getting there guys if I can get in there it's a it's definitely seeming a lot less daunting right now than it did this morning yeah we're 450 K's away from my first destination my first night so it's not long at all time to get some petrol all right I was recommended actually quite a nice place in there to be honest Barkley homestead if anyone's coming through the Barkley desert on the way from Queensland to northern territory I'm gonna have to watch the replay see if a flight is wind into my mouth and out and out again I thought I'd just swallow to fly anyways guys first bite it's a good pie it's just that a hot pie on a okay so it's about 30 about 37 degrees which is pretty standard but you know Alice Springs has been like from 40 to 45 degrees Celsius every single day for the past six weeks so I'm hoping when I do get to cans we're gonna at least have some rain which I know we will says tropical but you know just that that peak temperature of the day is gonna be slightly lower which would be nice but I am bloody hungry I haven't eaten anything today yet like I said guys nice little place in there it's pretty flash and actually to be honest even the gardens and stuff around here is quite nice are we in the northern territory actually don't know we are still in territory yeah I saw a sign before it said 250 K's to the Queensland border and 450 K's to Mount Isa so we've got a full tank of gas I'm going to take it easy about 130 K's an hour and we're gonna roll up another joint before I do so I'll see you guys at the next stop have a look have a look at this apparently I'm 40 K's away from the Queensland border look look around there is literally nothing it is so flat and so barren I just had to pull over to show you guys because it's you know if I if I didn't have so much energy right now it would be dangerous and fuck the road is so hot it's got to be 40 degrees I'm pulled over to give the the car a little rest because I feel like it's probably needs it to be honest and with that said it's about time we continue right everybody what does that say Camu Wheel Roadhouse here we are for petrol stop number five seriously guys every time I pull in somewhere every type of pull in summer I'm so embarrassed look at this car like it's completely illegal if a cop pulled me up it'd be like not you're not driving that like I am I am completely surrounded by by shit and apparently it's shit I needed in a previous video I said I got I sold almost everything I own well apparently not because I still fill a 2009 Holden Marina with all of my shit like you saw me do yesterday but anyways fifth petrol stop we've got 200 K's to go until get to Mount Isa it is 242 I don't know about you guys but I'm actually feeling relatively good and we're in Queensland that's new all right guys I tell a lie we're about to head off I don't know if you can see over that wall of our stuff there but Camu Wheel established 1884 we have 188 kilometers to go we have Camu Wheel supermarket fresh goods daily would you believe would you believe water tower and if I was a kid I would have loved climbing out there alright everybody we're here we made it I'm in my hotel suite my Mount Isa hotel suite which I've got to be honest I went on booking.com and I read the reviews for once I read this place was clean the staff were friendly and it was big big rooms for what you get and it is it's an awesome lounge we've got a sick flat screen we've got a couch layout on tonight we've got a full kitchen well not a full kitchen but most most of one big bedroom not sure about the bathroom what do we got yeah standard definitely good enough good enough for me now when you when you're traveling through the northern territory staying at all these well actually I don't really stay at them I just drive through them but tonight we're staying at one so Mount Isa is you know it's got about 140,000 people which is surprising I think that's the Mount Isa sort of area but as far as Mount Isa city you know to be a fair a fair bit less I think but they do have everything I saw a Harvey Norman they've got you know obviously KFC McDonald's all that stuff but I'm gonna go down to the pub down the road and get a pub meal tonight I got recommended that by the lady here she's very nice that was another thing that I saw on the reviews was that it was very spacious it was clean which it is and the staff were nice so so far so good so far so good that's all I can say so at the moment I've got two options two two options I can wake up in the morning really early and drive all the way from Mount Isa to cans which is probably gonna take probably at least 13 hours so if I left at 6 I could get there at like 7 or 8 in the evening but I don't think I'm gonna leave the earlier thing they leave it like 8 in the morning and then it's a thousand kilometers to get from here to Townsville so if I want to stay another night before I go to cans I can stay in Townsville that's on the coast so I'm gonna see some water for the first time in months and yeah just thinking about it honestly then in the car over here you know whilst I'm driving for these hours and hours on end I'm just thinking about tape man I'm thinking about seeing my daughter I'm thinking about you know the the new experiences I'm gonna be able to have in cans the new people the new gym I'm gonna train at you know it's the new facilities new sports fuck it's it's it's exciting I wish I could get there tonight but I can't so anyways I might check them with you later but I don't really feel like there's any point you guys know what I'm up to it's still daylight it's about 5 30 at night so that means we've we've been driving for about 12 hours today so it's a solid day of driving and we've got another solid day tomorrow so we got our pub meal not too bad not too good and not too big you know I need something else and I saw earlier in this little welcome to Mount Isa book you know the usual information books that they have in hotel rooms I saw a Chinese restaurant and another one and a Japanese restaurant and another one so we've got four choices for some delivery food that's exactly what we're gonna get crispy skin chicken I love crispy skin chicken honey chicken absolutely delicious satay chicken satay beef dim sum spring rolls barbecue pork teriyaki beef sweet um can I get crispy skin chicken and honey chicken dishes some sort of rice fried rice let's 50 bucks $50 on Chinese oh man oh well you know what we're gonna do until that gets here I'm gonna set my laptop up which is right there no it's not it's right there and we're gonna do some editing and hopefully get this one edited and put up for you guys okay so now I will see you in the morning for the next vlog I'm not sure what we're gonna do we're gonna be doing driving hopefully I'm gonna make it interesting hopefully this one was interesting enough I'm gonna freaking have a massive feast right now I cannot wait and I've seen one peace out body