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The Newell Highway Road Trip: In Polaroids

June 4, 2014

As most of you will know, last Saturday I embarked on an epic three-day Newell Highway Road Trip to relocate from Melbourne to Brisbane. I had the best of intentions really I did - I googled my daily route and new exactly where to stop for the best photo ops and early morning walks, hell, I even wrote a post about whether or not the inland drive was actually even touristy and not just a flat expanse of monotonous bitumen as popular discourse would have you believe. Well, turns out pop. ... Read More

Road Trip Essentials

May 29, 2014

  In little over 24 hours, my Dog Poppy and I will be dousing ourselves in essential travel oils, donning our best black leggings and climbing behind the wheel of my trusty V-Dub to commence the long and arduous road-trip up the Newell Highway from Melbourne to Brisbane. My car is nearly exploding with boxes, bags, paintings and all sorts of random paraphernalia, but these key road trip essentials will be sitting pretty by my side incase of emergency. Here are some modern road-trip ... Read More

Driving from Melbourne to Brisbane on the Newell Highway

May 27, 2014

As I pack my worldly belongings into boxes (more boxes than I’d prefer to divulge) and prepare to relocate my base-camp up to Brisbane from Melbourne, I am confronted with one very important question: is there actually anything exciting about the Newell Highway, the fastest and most direct route between the two cities? Sure, there are *foul-mouthed truckies' and the occasional ‘roo, but is there anything scenic, dare I say touristy about this 20-hour inland route? Don’t get me wrong, I don’t ... Read More

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