There were tough times. "I was stranded at the side of the road in forty-five degree heat. I wasn't quite at the stage where you drink your own urine, but I tell you what, I was looking round for a container....." There were dangerous times. "Now stealing eggs from crocs is probably on a par with going over Niagara Falls in a 44 gallon drum. Theoretically it's possible to survive, but if you didn't make it, no one would be surprised. Life would go on and you'd just end up as croc $%!$%! , floating down the river" In short, no one's done more kilometres or had more bad luck than Phil O'Brien - and no one tells a better, or funnier, yarn.