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Plaidmoon:
I think I've found a couple of sightings of Pekin Express south of Brisbane, Australia on Facebook. I'm a bit puzzled because I thought the final leg was in Sydney and they are 800 km (500 miles) to the northeast of Sydney. It does appear that they are asking people for rides, so that would go along with hitchhiking, as I understand they do on Pekin Express. It could also be the Norwegian TAR though. Or something local that we're not interested in at all.

From Facebook (including replies - names removed as RFF prefers):

Sighting 1

Just got hit up by tv crew to drive them out to nimbin in some como like the amazing race. Told em to beet it and smoked it up hahhaha :)
    Share ˇ about an hour ago via mobile ˇ
        3 people like this.

            hahahah where
            about an hour ago

            Like out the front of the impy lol if it was somewhere closer i woulda done it lol i said yes and then i was like nah fuk that way to far out haha
            about an hour ago

            hahaahaha should of got some money for it
            about an hour ago

Sighting 2


filling the car up at yatala, then some chick from The Amazing Race ask us for directions. random
Share ˇ about an hour ago near Melbourne, Victoria ˇ
    4 people like this.

        very random
        about an hour ago

        i dont know why it says near melbourne
        about an hour ago

        U should of sent here to cunnamulla
        about an hour ago

        Lol was gonna say that Kane!
        about an hour ago

        yeah hopefully im on tv. i said the car was stolen lol
        about an hour ago

        Hahahaha be funny ass if you were
        50 minutes ago

Nimbin is a village 779 km (484 mi) NE of Sydney and 181 km (112 mi) S of Brisbane. From Wikipedia:

Nimbin is notable for the prominence of its environmental initiatives such as permaculture, sustainability, self-sufficiency as well as the cannabis counterculture. Writer Austin Pick described his initial impressions of the village this way: "It is as if a smoky avenue of Amsterdam has been placed in the middle of the mountains behind frontier-style building facades. ... Nimbin is a strange place indeed."

Nimbin has been described in literature and mainstream media as 'the drug capital of Australia', 'a social experiment' and 'an escapist sub-culture'. Nimbin has become an icon in Australian cultural history with many of the values first introduced there by the counterculture becoming part of modern Australian culture.[3]

Yatala is a suburb in the outer northern areas of Gold Coast City in Queensland, Australia. It is 39 km (24 mi) south of Brisbane. Facebook has the Sighting 2 guy who saw them in Yatala listed as being near Melbourne, which puzzled the guy. Don't know where sighting 1 happened.

Aussie:
Nimbin...  :eww I have no idea why anyone would go to Nimbin ???

Plaidmoon:

--- Quote from: Дussie Бabushka on February 04, 2012, 02:27:22 AM ---Nimbin...  :eww I have no idea why anyone would go to Nimbin ???

--- End quote ---

That's got me confused too. Maybe some kind of weird connection between legalized marijuana in Amsterdam and the marijuana culture in Nimbin? It is the Dutch version of TAR. It still seems pretty far fetched to me.   :duno:

Aussie:
Do you know where the poster was from? Lismore? Gold Coast?

Plaidmoon:

--- Quote from: Дussie Бabushka on February 04, 2012, 02:55:46 AM ---Do you know where the poster was from? Lismore? Gold Coast?

--- End quote ---

One person was at Yatala, the other didn't say where he was. I was trying to figure it out from his earlier messages, but couldn't. I may try again later.

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