10 months of KCM, seven drive days and a lot of kilometres later.

The meets are great. The stops are stunning. Half the fun is parking up somewhere, grabbing a coffee or a pub feed and spending a couple of hours talking absolute rubbish and making new friends.

But there’s something particularly special about the drive.

A lot goes into planning the actual driving part of a KCM drive day. Finding routes that are actually worth driving. Checking roads are sealed. Linking together towns and stops that can somehow accommodate 30 cars arriving at once. Trying to build a route that’s interesting without making the day exhausting. And doing the dry run to make sure it all works in practice.

And then there are the things you can’t plan. The locals doing a double take as 30 Korean cars roll through town. Losing part of the convoy at a set of lights and eventually finding each other again. Looking in the mirror and seeing the line of cars spread out around the last corner.

And the potholes. So many potholes. We always try to avoid them. But at this point, would it even be a drive through regional Victoria without collectively dodging at least one giant VicRoads crater?

Seven drive days have taken us all over Victoria so far, and there are plenty more roads left to explore.

Number eight is next week. Noojee — Saturday 10 October. Details at our website. Link in bio.