Excitement has a new name – It's Thargomindah.
Well really Thargomindah to Cobar via Bourke or 650 miles of tarmac terror.
Remember, the old Chinese word crisis also means opportunity. And once the crisis hit, the opportunities for your very own Weekend Australian motoring team drivers popped up to show their heroic sides.
Yes friends and others, the mighty Michael McMichael and co-driver Libby McMichael's BMW 7 Series died yesterday by a remote billabong outside the back of Bourke. There was no sign of the disaster to come when 200 what may be called cars in the world's cheapest wrecking yards in northern China, left flood torn Thargomindah for a new flood free destination.
Despite flood waters up to the roof we made it to the town of Cunnamulla, ironically an Aboriginal name meaning 'long stretch of water with one reasonable coffee shop'.
Somewhere along the way our leader in the front car decided to stop for what we call a Code Yellow. Seeing the driveway to a farm he pulled in, naturally assuming the driveway would be of a similar standard to those at any similar farm in Hampstead Heath, Mykonos, or Connecticut. But no. Following the rain that threatened to re-float the ark and bring the desert back to life, it was deep thick mud.
Ben and Libby chose to rapidly exit the vehicle. After the fire died down we put the BMW on the back of a trailer where it was driven to the Cobar Car Hospital and declared dead on arrival.