Bumping this because this was my main question...
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Originally Posted by troutman
I don't understand the 160 days to cross the salt? Australia is 4,000 km across at the widest distance. Traveling at 70 km/h, the trip is 57 hours?
Perth to Durban is about 8,000 km. Sydney to Santiago is 11,000 km.
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Originally Posted by octothorp
I thought the salt plains were meant to be what's left of the ocean? Fits with Australia topography, where the 'green place' is in the very east, and beyond that, salty nothingness.
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Originally Posted by troutman
If there were no oceans, there would be no weather, and the world would be impossibly hot for life?
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Yeah, I didn't get this impression at all. It makes no sense first for the reasons troutman is stating, and also, you cannot travel across the ocean. It is not "salt flats". The ocean floor has topography. If you tried to ride a motorbike across it you'd fall off a several-hundred-foot cliff in fairly short order.
The only explanation I can come up with is that they're still in Australia, and that the "salt" is a desert therein. However, when we're talking about 160 days, you only have enough gas to actually ride the bikes for like, two of those. It's not like you can carry enough gas to travel several thousand KM. So the plan, I guess, was to ride until you run out of fuel, and then hoof it for the remaining five-ish months. Which I agree with Max, is probably a death sentence as I still don't see how anyone is carrying that volume of water.