Re: Why Do I Do It?

Posted by kit carr on Oct 25, 2014; 6:40am
URL: http://sundownersadventures.385.s1.nabble.com/Why-Do-I-Do-It-tp5706960p5707049.html

Hi Kathy,

As far as I know only Vicar has tried to put together the trips and road crew data for Sundowners, and it is far from complete. Sundowners demise meant that all of the records disappeared, and if they still exist I am not aware of them.

Gary was certainly respected for his abilities by all of us who worked at the same time that he did. HE did a great job, and his passing was a sad loss to all of us, and especially to his wife and family.

Having said that the nature of the business was that we seldom spent any great amount of time with other road crew unless we were on the same trip (ie Driver and Courier). End of season layovers generally saw the crew disappear all over the world. Overland seasons were longer than the European seasons, but doing 13 overlands generally meant about 3 years on the road. It equates to somewhere between 600 and 700 days on the road. The details of what trips Gary did will be locked up with the crew he worked with, and others he met on the road, and not easy to find now.

Sundance was at the reunion in Coolangatta a few weeks ago, and left to travel to Europe after the reunion.

kit