Riddle me this

aastek · Veteran Member

Riddle me this

Dougwe · Chief one feather

What goes up must come down then what comes down must go up in reverse. However, if you come down and keep going on flat ground you risk falling over the edge.

KJB · Guru

aastek wrote:
Why is it that, when pulling a caravan, the road before you has so many hills and you think to yourself that when I traveled back it will have so many downhills, yet you find out on the way back there so many hills still ahead of you

It is complicated but all I can say is that it is tied in with "head winds.." It is a conspiracy........ and is magnified when low on fuel....

aastek · Veteran Member

Yes you are right about the head winds. I just made it into Camooweal from the Barkly Homestead. The headwinds were ferocious and I ended up using 50% more fuel then normal. Just made it with nothing but the smell of the proverbial oily rag.

Whenarewethere · Guru

& you get another flat tyre when you have no more spares, repair kit & compressor.

Cupie · Guru

aastek wrote:
Yes you are right about the head winds. I just made it into Camooweal from the Barkly Homestead. The headwinds were ferocious and I ended up using 50% more fuel then normal. Just made it with nothing but the smell of the proverbial oily rag.

That's why I always carry an 'emergency' 20L can of fuel when traveling away from the coast.

Jaahn · Guru

Hmm smile
When I was studying physics at school 60 years ago, doing friction and forces, a clever student asked 'how do we know which way friction is acting'. The clever teacher said 'well simple really, always acting against the direction of travel'. I never forgot that and I think all these other forces are just the same too !! biggrin

Some little things just stick in the memory aww

Jaahn

-- Edited by Jaahn on Friday 18th of June 2021 08:20:02 AM

Derek Barnes · Senior Member

What hills???? We never seem to notice them.

peter67 · Guru

Uncle alzheimers will clean up those worries in short order.

tea spoon · Senior Member

we always find it longer to go someplace and when coming home its quick .........i find putting up the van for camping where ever a task that takes a while but packing to go home seems quick and easy .........i think its and age thing ........oh and lastly i get annoyed when going into a room or the shed and forget what i came for ........

bgt · Guru

So if going is an issue then if we drove in reverse would the same apply?

aastek · Veteran Member

I agree. I went to the doctors once, due to my advancing years and he said that I should start thinking of the hereafter. I said to him that I do that all the time, I walk around my house and into a room and think, what am I here after?

-- Edited by aastek on Friday 18th of June 2021 01:23:14 PM

tea spoon · Senior Member

ill have to try that next time i go away ...going in reverse sounds like fun

-- Edited by tea spoon on Friday 18th of June 2021 02:07:31 PM

Bjr1 · Member

Why is a corrugated road smoother on the return journey?

KJB · Guru

Bjr1 wrote:
Why is a corrugated road smoother on the return journey?

Nothing falls off on the way back ....because it has already fallen off on the way there.....

dieseltojo · Senior Member

I can only say that as a bicycle rider the wind is always coming at you .....

Dick0 · Guru

aastek wrote:
I agree. I went to the doctors once, due to my advancing years and he said that I should start thinking of the hereafter. I said to him that I do that all the time, I walk around my house and into a room and think, what am I here after?

So that's why there are no hills on the return journey! confuse