Syd To PI on 4 wheels

[Wattie]

To all of you frequent Melbournites...

When i do the Hardcore PI trip in the Wattimobile, i think i will be arriving into melbourntown at about 3-5pm on thursday afternooon.

I dont like sitting in tunnels on or traffic. so can anyone suggest a route to avoid the city centre??

i have google mapped a bit of a route..

im heading the hume for easy on fuel and so the mrs wont get lost when she has a drive...

is going via
- Yea
-lillydale
-wantirna
-Hallam

then onto cranbourne worthwhile??

i have a toll blippy thing, mainly just want to avoid the bedlam traffic.

and ideas would be great.

[Wattie]

how cool am it, replying to my own thread...

maybe even go
-canberra
-cooma
-cann river
-orbost
and down to wanthaggi that way.

not as much freeway, it says it adds an hour to the trip.

and i could stick my finger up at all the bastards on their bikes going past me...

[Bogan]

What about this way?

http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=d&sadd ... 075195&z=7

[Glen]

how cool am it, replying to my own thread...

maybe even go
-canberra
-cooma
-cann river
-orbost
and down to wanthaggi that way.

not as much freeway, it says it adds an hour to the trip.

and i could stick my finger up at all the bastards on their bikes going past me...

C,mon now mate. You know you want to do the Squirrel rd. You're driving so you've got plenty of room for the Banjo and I'm sure you wouldn't look out of place in a Vectra

[Wattie]

how cool am it, replying to my own thread...

maybe even go
-canberra
-cooma
-cann river
-orbost
and down to wanthaggi that way.

not as much freeway, it says it adds an hour to the trip.

and i could stick my finger up at all the bastards on their bikes going past me...

C,mon now mate. You know you want to do the Squirrel rd. You're driving so you've got plenty of room for the Banjo and I'm sure you wouldn't look out of place in a Vectra

you've failed to unearth my secret plan to avaid the red rooster incident... i dont have the appropriate safety gear to go within 20kms of the "drop zone"

[Wattie]

if i was going to do the bonang, i would need to put the 18s back on with some sticky rubber so i could leave darkeys and back it in like the 10r

[hoffy]

Remember Elliots Way and Granya etc..

[Wattie]

What about this way?

http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=d&sadd ... 075195&z=7

ah yes, that seems ideal!

leaves plenty of distance between me and the red rooster drop zone

[Jeebz10R]

Driving through the City and going through the tunnel is a joke traffic wise

Doing it again to do a the PI double header in December. Sadly doubt we will deviate from the route usually taken. Heres hoping we arrive before the peak hour rat race.

Ah well

Let us know the detour goes.

[red_dave]

i dont have the appropriate safety gear to go within 20kms of the "drop zone"

OMG!!! I totally forgot about that!.

I've already promised to visit my brother in the nothern suburbs of Melbourne. MIght have to head back up the Hume to Benalla and down the route Bogan has suggested.

Do we know if a 20km exclusion zone is enough? I don't want to take any chances