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MORLEY AND HIS MATE WATTO TACKLE OUTBACK AUSTRALIA IN THE VARIETY BASH PILOTING A NEAR STANDARD BENZ. HOW HARD COULD IT BE?
Elvis Presley, a nun, Papa Smurf and the Queen walk into a pub. Sounds like the start of a bad dad joke, no? Except, I saw it with my own two, bleary eyes. In fact I saw it many times in the last two weeks as 350 or so grown-ups playing dress-ups convinced me that the outback pub has lost none of its magnetism and charm. And that people are as committed to having fun as they ever were before Covid. Oh, and that if they can combine those two elements and raise money for a good cause in the process, then the no-harmno-foul rule should be played. If you know what I mean.
Those with sufficient lack of motivation as well as the spare time to actually read this column every month will recall that my good buddy and rally partner, Watto, and myself had signed on to the 2022 running of the Victorian Variety Club Bash. It ran from Melbourne to Cairns but, just to make things as difficult for ourselves as possible, we left all the car prep to the last minute and then skimped on it anyway. The result? We lined up on August 16, at Melbourne Showgrounds with an all-but stock Mercedes W124 260E, ready to tackle the Birdsville Track, many other chunks of inhospitable Aussie outback and a 10,000km round trip. Yes, we are geniuses.
But, like all good, trained observers, I kept a diary of the event and I shall now share it with you. Okay, so
