Are We There Yet?

Yes, we are! We left home via one highway and over seven thousand kilometers later came home via a different highway. Now that is one very big loop! We managed the great distances by staying at least two nights or longer in the same location so that in total, we only had a handful of …

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The Night I Got Eaten Alive

Here's the approach to the rock at the very northernmost tip of Australia. I can laugh about it now (well, almost), but just ask my husband...I have been grumpily uncomfortable for the past few days. It was a typical night as far as this far north Queensland portion of our road trip goes. We had …

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A Yarn from the Road

"Come up to the homestead anytime," the farmer wife told us when we checked in to camp for two nights at this 78,000 acre cattle station in outback Queensland. So we did. The old man we met (her father) was no longer able to do a lot on the farm due to failing eyesight, but …

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Destination Home

The longest dead straight road on the planet is found in Australia. It stretches 1100 kilometres (684 miles) across the Nullarbor Plain between South and West Australia. There's no way you can get lost because there are literally no detours. Aussies call it the Nullar-boring, because of its lack of visual stimulation! Sometimes we expect …

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