{"id":26440,"date":"2024-05-19T00:01:01","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T07:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/?p=26440"},"modified":"2024-05-18T07:17:11","modified_gmt":"2024-05-18T14:17:11","slug":"adventure-toward-ayers-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/05\/19\/adventure-toward-ayers-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"Adventure Toward Ayers Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>By Mike Huber<\/h6>\n<p>At the time of this writing I am sitting in my hotel room, which happens to be in an underground cave in the tiny opal mining town of Coober Pedy.\u00a0 Normally this would sound crazy, but 50% of the residents in this town live underground so it\u2019s perfectly normal to be living as someone on the desert planet of Tatoonie would live.\u00a0 It is deep in the Australian Outback hundreds of miles from nothing. How I even ended up in this town is something I am still piecing together, but alas, here I am typing this up as an aboriginal drum beats from the distant hills and echoes into my cave dwelling.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26444\" src=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/20240517_140709-600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"1126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/20240517_140709-600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/20240517_140709-600-160x300.jpg 160w, https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/20240517_140709-600-546x1024.jpg 546w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I apologize for being on a brief writing hiatus. My travel schedule has been beyond nonstop (even for me). I have only had two days off since leaving New Zealand in early April.\u00a0 In doing so there were multiple countries I toyed with visiting.\u00a0 Australia was one that kept being recommended, but I didn\u2019t really feel the calling for it. So was hesitant when I booked a one-way ticket to Sydney and was expecting a short stay to just check the box. Well, life had other plans for me as I am currently six weeks into this giant country with no end in sight.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26446\" src=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/20240517_174802-600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/20240517_174802-600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/20240517_174802-600-300x135.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When I say no end in sight, I literally mean no end in sight.\u00a0 Having motorcycled much of the Southwestern United States over the past six years I think I have a pretty solid grasp on distances and expansiveness with large pockets of isolation and nothingness. \u00a0I knew what large areas were and how to negotiate them, even on two wheels. \u00a0I couldn\u2019t have been more ignorant of what expansiveness really is.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26443\" src=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/20240514_113057-600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/20240514_113057-600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/20240514_113057-600-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Expansiveness is driving 100+ miles and not seeing another car and only a random oncoming truck towing three or four trailers that when it passes you throws your tiny rental off the road due to the wind gust.\u00a0 Expansiveness is slowing down to some type of an unknown road hazard in front of you only to realize it\u2019s an emu that decides to attack your car so you must quickly swerve and speed up.\u00a0 Expansiveness is clicking search on both AM and FM radio stations only to have it indefinitely spin without a station to be found for hours.\u00a0 Expansiveness is Australia.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26445\" src=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/20240517_153323-600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/20240517_153323-600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/20240517_153323-600-300x183.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Australia is my home for the time being and I am trying everything possible to do more than just scratch the surface of this foreign and incredibly large part of the world. With every type of climate you can imagine and wildlife that is other worldly, cute, dangerous, and some a combination of the three.\u00a0 This article series will take you through my journey of Australia as I make my way towards Ayers Rock (Uluru) in the great Australian Outback.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Never miss an ExNotes blog:<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<style>\r\n        .wpedon-container .wpedon-select,\r\n        .wpedon-container .wpedon-input {\r\n            width: 171px;\r\n            min-width: 171px;\r\n            max-width: 171px;\r\n        }\r\n    <\/style><div class='wpedon-container wpedon-align-center'><form target='_blank' action='https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr' method='post' class='wpedon-form'><input type='hidden' name='cmd' value='_donations' \/><input type='hidden' name='business' value='ExNotes@ExhaustNotes.us' \/><input type='hidden' name='currency_code' value='USD' \/><input type='hidden' name='notify_url' value='https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-admin\/admin-post.php?action=add_wpedon_button_ipn'><input type='hidden' name='lc' value='en_US'><input type='hidden' name='bn' value='WPPlugin_SP'><input type='hidden' name='return' value='' \/><input type='hidden' name='cancel_return' value='' \/><input class='wpedon_paypalbuttonimage' type='image' src='https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/btn_donateCC_LG.gif' border='0' name='submit' alt='Make your payments with PayPal. 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