Parkes Nissan, venue for scrutiny on Friday afternoon and Saturday morning.

The Parkes Services Club, the venue for the briefing and our welcome function on Saturday evening.

Heugh, our host at Overland and Emu Chase, with Philip. That’s one of Heugh’s smaller tractors.

We always stop at Utes in the Paddock at Ootha – there is always something to see. This is a service location on the 2014 COT.

Main street of Parkes – this is our start location on Sunday 31 August.

Linda, our hostess at the Comfort Inn Bushman’s, Rally HQ in Parkes.

Saw this number plate on one of the Mercedes at the Bushman’s. We explained the significance of numbers 001, 002 and 003 to Keith.

About 100 Mercedes owners stopped in Parkes on their way to the Gold Coast for a National event. The car park at the Bushman’s was full of Benzes – and one dirty Nissan Patrol that attracted lots of attention.

The spillway below Lake Endeavour near Parkes – some powerful water has been down here. We found this while checking our prologue locations.

The Nissan Fleet survey Patrol at the Henry Parkes Centre – home of Parkes Tourism.

Elvis directing the way to the prologue near Parkes. Thank you very much…

There are some great farm gate letter boxes our here…