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-Be very careful about not annoying your host, I've been thrown out of a truck by an irate driver, off his head on nodoze, for some quite harmless comment, 200k from the nearest town...
==When your you're really stuck for a place to stay...==You know your you're off the tourist track when you get to a town with out a backpackers. Most small towns have a town pub that offers pretty cheap accommodation and many have a free campground on teh edge of town or a picnic spot beside a river-*Schoolyards, normally there is somewhere discrete under cover, in most small towns there is green grass, and even toilets and drinking water, just set your alarm early and get out before 7:30ish when cleaning staff etc may start to arrive. (The primary school on thee edge of My Isa has rescued me on more than one occasion.-*Non Returned soldiers areas at Cemeteries, clearly not for the superstitious, but these sites, tend to have nice soft green grass, and often have free public toilets and fresh drinking water. The cemetery at the end of thee railway line in Hexam on your way north out of Sydney is a classic, if headed north through from Canberra or Melbourne, you can jump the train in Campbeltown or Paramater, ride it through to Central, change to the Newcastle line, then switch to the Hexam line, and get off at the unnamed station for free, right next to the best cemetery I have ever slept in, right next to the princess highway.-*Many remote areas have shade structures as bus shelters, these can provide quite a comfortable nights sleep, as can late night train stations (spent my time on the floor of the girls toilet at Ningin railway station) Church Foyers (3 nights in the foyer of the underground church in Cooperpeedy).-*Showgrounds on the edge of towns often have toilets water and a place undercover.
==When your really stuck for a ride==

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