roadtrips

  • Top 10 Travel Essentials for Back in the Day … and Today.

    Some of those golden rules about travel are still gold standard today.  The featured image for this story comes courtesy of my son Tom who took the photo while I was trying antigravity yoga at Four Seasons Jimbaran, a very safe and very luxurious resort in Bali. Travel should increase your sense of daring but…

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  • ABC Saturday Breakfast:  Long weekends, overnighters and day trips

    What a great chat on Saturday morning ABC Breakfast with Christine Layton, discussing the Australia Day events from Broome to Albany to keep you entertained and then a few suggestions for daytrips and overnighters throughout Western Australia.  Get out there and find new adventures even on the most well trodden path. Below are some pics to…

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  • ABC Breakfast Show: Let a Regional Show Pull You Out of the City

      Great discussion on the ABC Saturday Breakfast Show about the lure of the regional shows – the agriculural shows – that can get city folk hitting the road for a day trip or weekender. Regional shows have big tractors, big roosters and rams and if you’re lucky, big scones and mock chicken sandwiches in…

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  • ABC Breakfast Show: It’s a long way down the holiday road

      “I found out long ago, it’s a long way down the holiday road”  That line, from Lindsay Buckingham’s, ‘Holiday Road’, theme tune for the movie, ‘Vacation’, is so evocative of those road trips from the past and the present. Peeling mandarins, playing travel games based on the colour of oncoming vehicles, the stench of…

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