Easter weekend camping

[Snapey]

"i don't get ppl who travel on Easter weekend....it's like woohoo a whole extra 48 hours off 😱😱😱 let's pack everything we own, 17 kids, the canoe, the bbq, pack enough food to feed the whole of a 3rd world nation for a month, the bikes, the dog, 18 fishing rods and Grandma in the 4 tonne LandCruiser we don't know how to drive.... then we'll leave early to beat the traffic, ermmmm 10 k out of town no... every other numpty with a BCF membership got the same idea 🙄 oh well nevermind nothing like  9 hours in a traffic jam with screaming bored kids fighting over the DVD player and mashing half  chewed lollies on the carpet while singing "Let it Go!" out of tune for the 19th time...
11.5 hours from home you've covered 43.6 kilometres and your cheese is about to slide off your cracker 😤 so you pull into a Service Centre packed with 9753 other equally mental fools, park sideways across 6 spots in the truck section coz you know the Toyota runs on diesel so it's a 'truck ' isn't it??
You all pile out of the big lorry ignoring the cold stares from the guy trying to park his 80 foot bdouble for a regulation break, send the kids to line up at Maccas for 57  minutes then still have no fkn clue what they want by the time you reach the server 🤨.... it doesn't matter what the stinking rugrats order anyway coz 11 minutes later the wrappers are floating across the carpark, the soft serve is on the leather seats and the 9 year old has pickles in her hair and is screaming 'you're  a poo poo head!" at the 7 year old who refuses to sit forwards or put his seat belt on 👊🏻....
25.8 hours after leaving home you reach the campsite a whole 103 ks away only to discover there's no spots left within 17 kilometres of the beach or a toilet so you set up camp with the brown snakes 🐍 nowhere near the neighbors who promised to hold a spot for you 🙄🤦🏻‍♂️.....
You spend the next day and a half listening to half pissed Shazza's yelling "JAYDEN!!! Stop hitting your brother!!" and mumbling to your mates around the campfire about 'serenity' and 'the good life'.... 🔥
9am Monday you're thinking prison food can't be that bad surely??? If I just bury them deep enough nobody will find them??
You say fuk this I'll leave early and beat the traffic while visions of the 23 hour journey down here flash through your head 💭🤔
So you pack the whole shebang back into the Pickle mobile along with the wet dog and sunburnt kids whining  "weeeere hungreeeeeee!!!" , pull out onto the packed highway, find another Maccas to appease the brats. fill the 'truck' at $1.91 a litre and head the fuk home with the other 19.3 million nufftys thinkin abbq at home and a sleep in would have been a good idea!! 🚙💨💨💨💨 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️
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[Kiwifruit]

The best Easter......A week out of my apprenticeship and I'm flying to Aussie. Mate says sorry Col the cars full. Then armed with half a cardboard beer box and a marker pen I write BATHURST and go stick my thumb out.
What a racetrack.Hansford, Sayle, Willing, plus all the guys I'd read about in the Revs magazine. The first of the two years I went there. Few years ago now, but so cool to have experienced such a great era.

[Snapey]

Easter at Bathurst eh Col. So many memories of the great riders I watch & competed against but mainly of how cold it was when camping if Easter fell in April. It didn't matter whether you were on the mountain or in the pits it was effing freezing but that was all forgotten when the sun came up & the first bike started.

Great memories for me of an iconic race track and heroes no longer with us.

[grog]

Snapey, your Easter story is bloody brilliant. 👍👍

[Snapey]

Snapey, your Easter story is bloody brilliant. 👍👍

It cracked me up when I read it because it's so close to the truth.

[GSXKING]

That's GOLD @Snapey we laughed our heads off.

I've always wondered why people spend so much money to then go and live like homeless people 

[Mick_J]

Jeremy Clarkson once said about caravanners " why would anyone spend thousands of pounds buying a big car to pull an expensive caravan to end up sitting in long traffic jams on a hot day only to end up shitting in a bucket".   

[VladTepes]

Snapey wins the Internet. 



On Friday I saw a Land Cruiser packed up in the cabin and on the roof rack to probably twice the GVM.

It was on a tray back as the front LHS suspension had fully collapsed.

[Johno]

Not much traffic on the Menindee to Ivanhoe road ( 209km) on Easter Friday. Passed one car in 2.5 hours.
More wild goats than people.