RV FEATURE
HIGHWAY TO CANBERRA
On the outskirts of Melbourne , I trickle-filled the tank to the brim with diesel . From there , it was almost entirely open highway between me and Canberra . These days , you don ’ t even need to slow down for Albury , unless you want to . The traffic and weather conditions were favourable . Overall , they were good openhighway testing conditions in which the vehicle travelled at 110km for the vast duration .
By the time I rolled into Canberra that night and had parked at my hotel , the vehicle ’ s 80L fuel tank , according to the fuel gauge , was between a quarter to half full . I was , in all honesty , pretty impressed . In two days , I ’ d be heading back to Melbourne . I half thought I might make it back over the border before needing to fill up . The fuel economy was proving to be surprisingly decent .
Along with other members of the industry , I was invited to attend a caravan industry workshop followed by a get-together at Parliament House .
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A quick snap from my phone of the flag flying above Parliament House while we were being given a tour by a member of parliament as part of the cocktail party .
I would not normally recommend running a fuel tank so low , but by the time it was time to point the bonnet south , I was in for a penny , in for a pound . How far I could go before the fuel light came on ?
Well , I didn ’ t quite make the border . I got as far as Holbrook , a lovely little town famous for the decommissioned submarine that sits in a park as a tourist attraction . By the time I rolled into a Holbrook service station , the MU-X had done a respectable 910km on a single tank . They were virtually all highway miles , true , but that seems like a decent figure to me . Out of the 80L tank , the vehicle had consumed 73.19L – it was running on fumes by the time I ’ d pulled into the servo .