The Driving Thread

I think I posted this one last month. It's the best shot of Hollywood I'll ever need to get.

Got lucky getting it after zig zagging thru smaller streets to avoid big clogged thoroughfares.

 

I'm on a work assignment in Australia. Friday and Monday are both public holidays here, so I decided to take a long weekend and go exploring.

This means ... I'm driving on the wrong side of the car.



But because of the wonders of modern technology, I can listen to Major League Baseball while driving the backroads of New South Wales. Life is full of wonder.

My drive took me along Highway B59, through the Blue Mountains. Think a slightly less-scenic Blue Ridge Parkway. Beautiful rises, with mountain bluffs to my left and expansive, beautiful valleys to my right (which, I had to keep reminding myself, is also where the oncoming traffic was.)

I stopped along the way and took a little hike on the Walls Lookout Walking Track in the Blue Mountains National Park.



The photo doesn't really do justice to the view, or the fact that I was looking down on most of that.

My plan was to secure lodging in Orange, but I didn't plan very well, so I had to go back to Bathurst. I scrambled and found an old hotel that once was part of a Catholic university. Never let it be said that I don't have a sense of adventure. Someday my planning skill will catch up to my adventurousness.

But the hotel, as it turns out, is not far from one of the most legendary venues in motorsport, the Mount Panorama Motor Racing Circuit. And, as it turns out, Mount Panorama is playing host to this event this weekend:

Home - Bathurst 6 Hour

Which means I'll spend at least some of tomorrow over at Mount Panorama.

 

Wow. Nice.

Keep left!

 

Nice to see and hear, FNF. The closest I've come to Mount Panorama was driving it in "Gran Turismo." Tough track.

 

Went for what turned into a 5-mile walk up to Sunset Boulevard to look for a good spot.

On the way back, Robertson Boulevard, saw a sad sight. Is it really worth rebuilding this beauty?

 

To pitch a tent?

No such thing.

Why not get a job and rent an apartment instead?

 

1966 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu 4 Door Sedan Prices, Values & Chevelle Malibu 4 Door Sedan Price Specs

 

The Malibu was on back of a wrecker in front of a Beemer.

If the Malibu was fixed up pretty, which would you rather have, it or the Beemer?

 

Here's what a guy trying to parallel park his $500,000 Lamborghini Aventador on a Saturday afternoon on Sunset Boulevard looks like.

 

Our best photographer is leaving, and Songbird would be great for his job. Don't think he wants to move here, though.