Day 5 Depart Roma 10am Arrive Charleville 2.30pm 268 kms Stops: - Roma for IGA quick whip around supermarket for supplies - Mitchell for fuel - a small town for toddler toilet stop - Morven for lunch The landscape changed again today, and somewhere along the Warrego Hwy we were "welcomed to the outback" by a road sign. The surrounds are scrubby, but still a surprising amount of green in with the browns of the dry grasses. These parts have had extraordin...

Day 4 Depart Brisbane 8am Arrive Roma 3.30pm 480kms Stops - west of Brisbane for fuel - Chinchilla for lunch - fuel in Miles - truck parking area in the middle of nowhere for a toddler toilet stop (glad we packed the potty). For such a big day in the car, it went surprisingly smoothly. We made good time, and the kids travelled quite well. We unfortunately had to pack up a wet tent due to overnight drizzle. This included a small patch of water inside the...

Day 3: Brisbane All day Didn't drive anywhere! The main reason we stopped in Brisbane was to meet up with the other family we are travelling with. Dad and the kids had set out earlier in the week in a camper can, and mum flew in today from Newcastle (delayed by work commitments). I had a much better nights sleep last night, with mr7 being the first to want the loo at 5.30am. In the early light we saw a possum scoot across the road and up into the roof of the...

Day 2 Start Glen Innes 9.30am End Brisbane 4pm 370kms Stops: - NSW / QLD border for a photo opportunity - Warwick for petrol, a pub lunch to celebrate Hub's birthday, and a trip to BigW to buy a doona and some odds and ends Last night in Glen Innes was a less than average night's sleep for me. A nearby shop or house alarm went off at 1am, and kept going for ages. Seems I am the only one in our tent that it woke. Eventually it went off, but all the dogs in ...

Day 1 Depart: Newcastle, NSW - 9am Arrive: Glen Innes, NSW - 4pm 430 kms Lunch: Walcha Other Stops: - ~20kms south of Gloucester in someone's driveway (car sick child) - Gloucester: buy bread rolls for lunch, and quick toilet stop Things we learnt today: - Ms9 can't go in the very back seat of the car. The air doesn't circulate enough, and combined with winding roads, she becomes unwell. This was a first for us. Mr7 seems to go just fine, so it looks lik...