Upper Middle Petrol Head:

ooo OOO ooo The Galant, ready to board the SPoT (visible in the background).   I’m a huge fan of the self-driven road trip.  Buses, trains and planes are all well and good if you’re happy to surrender your freedom to set schedules and and inflexible routes, but there’s only one way to be the captain of your own ship - by which I mean car - and that’s to take your own.   If it’s a 47 year old Japanese classic, even better! 41,905k, ex Hobart.   It has been a while - a mere 31 years - since the Galant last saw mainland Australia.  However, the old girl has proven to be a great little tourer over the past three decades, having regularly been road-tripped up, down, through, across and around the island state of Tasmania, clocking up many thousands of kilometres of reliable service.   The Great Ocean Road, Victoria, has always been an attractive  route and a destination in its own right.  South Australia’s Kangaroo Island, accessible via the Southern Ocean Drive (effectively a cross-border