Navigating with James

1. Check for fresh tyre tracks.
2. No signs directing you and signs for the places you’ve just been to probably mean you´re headed for the main road.
3. Abandoned villages are not a good sign but check first as what we might write off as an old dumped caravan was used by one of the local graziers.
4. Leave tricky navigation for the morning or the afternoon as heading north or east is easier to figure out when the sun is lower.
5. Look at the traffic: Tourist buses are a safe but boring sign for accommodation and tours, cars and taxis: locals in transport, Utes and large trucks: mines. Push bike tyres means locals. four tyres moving parallel is probably a light truck and most probably moving slow, it was a delivery van
6. Check tyre tracks at intersections: Main roads get used more often therefore will have tracks over the tops of minor routes
7. Be boring and buy a good map
8. Be really boring and buy yourself a GPS