 It's 5.25 in the morning, it's Wednesday the 23rd of January, and by my calculation that means I get to see my daughter tonight. Yes! Hey, I'm actually, don't look too bad for a guy who hasn't trained much. Anyways guys, just had a shower, it's 5.30 in the morning, I'm gonna have a coffee. First thing I'm gonna do before I leave, I wanna get something done, I wanna feel productive. So I'm gonna have a coffee and I'm gonna edit up a vlog for you guys. Not the one that I made yesterday, but the one about selling everything I own. So I hope you enjoy. Without further ado, what coffee have we got? So what have we got here as far as coffee goes? Ah! Robert Tim's. Expresso. Thank you very much. Any sugar? Two sugars? That's us. It's processing, we've got three minutes to go. The title of the video is gonna be, I just sold everything I own in brackets almost. And it's talking about my approach to a more minimalist type of life. So it's 5.59 in the morning, we're leaving at around about 6 o'clock, which is great. I'm gonna pack my computer up once that's done, I've got my Chinese food from last night and a couple of coffee sachets and that's it, done. Done like a dog's dinner, that's what they used to say, isn't it? But what I will say, what I will tell you is that this coffee tastes like shit, absolutely terrible. So as soon as I leave here, we're gonna fill up the car with petrol and that will be our petrol stop of this trip. So yeah, let's do it. There's the beast, oh my god. Looks like it brought someone with me from Ellis. It's not funny, man. I'm not laughing, guys, don't, don't, don't judge me, but it looks like I've bought a bird with me. You poor bastard. What do I do? What do I do, guys? I'll tell you what I do. I'm not gonna do anything, I'm gonna leave it up to God. Look at that sunrise, that's beautiful. Can you see it? Guys, final shout out, Coppergate Motel, room to move. That's their motto. And I'll tell you what, there certainly was, there was room to move. It was a great night. I actually had a really good sleep. Coppergate Motel, Mount Isa. Are we done? We're not done. Under hotel. And that's where I had dinner last night. Decent, but not as good as that Chinese. What have we got here? Look at the situation, guys. We've got 13 hours and 40 minutes, apparently, 1,161 km, which is actually less than I did yesterday. So we're halfway there. I had thoughts of taking another night, staying in Townsville and then driving a second day. Look, here we go. What does that say? Oh, you didn't say. It said 906 km to Townsville, so those are my two options. Either 906 km or 1,161 km to a place called Cloncurry. It's got 1,500 people that live here, but actually looks like a little bit more, to be honest. I'm quite surprised. I'm looking for a petrol station currently, and it looks as if we've just found one. Petrol stop number seven, and we'll be off. All right, guys. So the petrol's in. I've got myself a can of Red Bull for the trip. Full tank of gas. So we're going to bang out about 400 km over the next three and a half hours. And before we do, look, I've got to sort this out. Look at this fucking bird. Look at this shit. I feel terrible, guys. It's still there. It stinks. Any vegetarians out there? Oh, fuck. Fucking terrible, but it had to happen. And now we're going to clean the windscreen. Another update. About 300 km down the road, plates over to Queensland once, which I'll take three months to do. And yeah, he did the trick. I haven't eaten anything yet, so I think I did. So I'm going to try not to eat any more of these flies, and let's keep going. OK, we've made it. Stop number seven. So I'm just watching this as I go by. This is to Townsville. And then I'm going to make a decision on what I want to do after that, but we're at five hours and 20 minutes to go. Just under 500 km, I'm thinking if it thinks I'm going to get there at 3.30, I'm thinking around 3 o'clock. It's quarter past 10, let's do it. All right. We're here. We're good. We're back in action. We've got a full tank of gas. I've got a bottle of water, nice and cold. It feels delicious, and someone's looking at me funny because I'm talking to a camera in my car by myself, but that's what you get for trying to make YouTube videos. Anyways, 497 km to Townsville. That could be our stop, our final destination for today. There's going to be some water. We're going to be in a town of 200,000 people with some fucking ocean. Yes! I cannot wait. It's just, but it is 497 km away, so that's at least four hours, if not five. And basically, before we go out of reception, I'm going to do what I forgot to do before and download a couple more YouTube videos to watch, because it's very important. Watch slash listen to. Of course I'm not watching it while I'm driving, but I'm listening to it. And so I think we're going to go finance, we're going to go property, and we're going to go bodybuilding. Okay? The other thing I did want to mention before I left is that the petrol just keeps getting cheaper and cheaper. It's $1.32.9 here. I have not like, seriously, usually in Alice Springs, when you're filling up your car, you're like trying to, you know how the dollar amount ticks by as well as the leaders, and you're trying to figure it out in your head. It's always closer to two times the amount of leaders as the price. Whereas this, the price is almost the same as the leaders, $25.16 cost $33, and I am stoked. Now I do want to ask you just one question before I do head off. What would you do, WWYD? What would you do? Would you do the same as Jacob in this situation? Okay. You've got three hours of great YouTube content to watch or listen to. You've got four hours of absolute nothingness to drive through, and you've got half an ounce of weed in the back of your car. What are you going to do? Well, don't tell anyone, but I'm going to do exactly what you thought I was going to do and show you guys my little hiding space, which is in a shoe, and when we open up that, we pull out the goods. Don't tell anyone. Open this up, pull out a weed nugget, and roll myself up a couple of joints to smoke over the next few hours. Now I do need to be a bit more careful in Queensland and other states than I do in the Northern Territory because, you know, truth be told, marijuana is still illegal here in Queensland. So we stick it back there and forget about it. 8.92 litres, $13.10, stop number eight, as ridiculous as that sounds, and we're off again. So we're about 30Ks out from Townsville, and I booked a hotel, so I'm heading there right now. It's costing me $93 a night, and I will show you guys exactly what it's like. We've got our first drops of rain because we are definitely heading into humid North Queensland country, but what comes with that is nice green grass, green mountains, and things are looking a lot better, and you know what, I'm happy, and that's the main thing, so 30Ks away, less than half an hour, and then tomorrow morning I'm going to check out, on check out, I'm not going to go early or anything, I'm going to check out at 10 o'clock, take it easy to cans, it's going to take about three and a half hours, and then I'm going to check into my other place at 2, which is my Airbnb, and then obviously my first priority is going to be seeing Tate, but as far as the messages from my ex have been today, she's not going to make it easy, which is unfortunate, because you know, all I really need is her support in all of this, I mean especially, you know, I don't know anyone there, I'm fucking moving my whole entire life, and she's still, it's all about the trip to the US man, really is, that's what it's all about, if I cancel this trip to the US, it will improve things dramatically, I think, I want to hear her reasoning why two weeks is such a big deal when she's been away from me for two months, and you know, she's trying to say that if I go to the US in a week's time, I can't see Tate when I come to cans until I get back, that's what she's been saying, so I don't know what's going to happen when I get there, but you know, she's telling me stupid shit like I can't come into her house, she's going to get security if I come there, you know, I don't know what she's playing at, she just wants me to cancel this fucking trip, that's what she wants, I don't know how I'm going to feel, maybe I'll need a break from her after a month, after a week, you know, I don't want to cancel it yet, but it could quite possibly happen, so we'll have to see, alright guys I know things are different because I just saw a shop at like a butcher or like a grocery store or something, and on the front it said ice, like drinks and bait, it said bait on the store, I was like what? But I guess when you live somewhere near the shore or near the ocean, they're going to say bait on stores, are they going to sell bait with ice? It's normal, I'm completely out of the loop man, I have been living in the desert for the last eight years, and I've just completely lost the plot, and there is another thing that I've noticed, every single house around here or most of them are on stilts or they're above the ground, and I remember someone at work telling me that these are like Queenslander houses, they're called Queenslanders, and we are in Queensland right, and I guess that's because there is such a big risk of flood because it rains every day, oh mate, oh we've got, we've got skyscrapers, we've got 10-story high buildings, I don't know if you can see but I can, that's obviously I've seen this shit before, but I've never lived, well, oh this isn't even cans, I'm getting ahead of myself, I'm getting ahead of myself, I thought this was cans but it's not, it's Townsville, very similar though, very similar population size, I'm not sure about surroundings, oh mate, we've got water, we're by the ocean, that is ocean water guys, fuck yeah, never feels good to be in civilization again, I've literally been out in the middle of nowhere for two days straight, how many k's have we done? I set this at the start of the trip, and it says, not okay how to help with the trip, 2,052.8 kilometres but my friends, we have arrived, we have arrived safe and sound, my legs feel like they're almost dead, oh that's okay, so we're gonna go check out the room, we've got free wi-fi, free parking and a king size room, so let's go, all right, well modest but definitely everything I need, we've got a bed, we've got a big balcony actually, it looks quite good, don't know about the view but we've definitely got a nice balcony, and we've got a desk, I'm gonna set my laptop up there and edit this video, we're gonna watch some TV later, what's in there, closet, basic essentials, we've got a microwave, kettle, toaster, fridge, with nothing in it, that's always important, isn't it, toilet don't need to see that, decent mirror, showers decent, I got it for under a hundred bucks, I mean these days, like seriously these days doesn't matter where you stay, in fact the more rural and the less population it seems the more expensive it is, especially in the Northern Territory but for $94 it cost me, $94 Australian dollars, I'm happy, so I think we might call it a day here guys, I'm gonna spend the rest of the night just chilling out, like I said editing, messaging a few people back, doing a few emails and most importantly looking forward to seeing my daughter tomorrow, although like I mentioned before, doesn't seem like it's gonna be too easy, so whatever happens tomorrow guys, wish me luck, I have a funny feeling she's saying this until I actually arrive and then things will improve but if not, you know I've got a challenge in front of me, another one, so anyways guys thanks for being here, we made it to Townsville, I'm not sure what the title of this video is gonna be but it's gonna be something like Mount Isa to Townsville or part two of the trip or you know something like that, so thank you for being here, we're here in Townsville, it's my first time here, you know every single place that I sort of went through up until this point I've thought oh yeah I've seen this before but we're in the new place, I feel good, Cairns is gonna be a new place of course and you know it's pretty daunting thinking fuck I'm moving somewhere that I've never been before, I don't know anyone but it doesn't take long to make new friends and the more people the more possibilities of meeting people you actually get along with so that's what I'm looking forward to as well as the other stuff I don't know I'm fucking rambling I can't wait to get there but I've got to wait another night so thanks for coming along with me keeping me company and sane my legs are dead but it's all good we've got 300k's to go, cannot wait to get there, peace, like, subscribe, I'll see you in the next one.