Taree to Lismore (432 km) The main reason for our trip to Lismore is the New South Wales Closed State Karting titles and much of our time has been spent at the Lismore Kart Club. We spent some time exploring Rotary Park near the Lismore CBD. The park is a "genuine rainforest remnant" according to the Lismore tourist brochure and is home to a variety of fauna and flora including hoop pines, giant fig trees, and fruit bats. As we walked beneath the canopy the s...

Canberra to Taree (585 km) A remarkably uneventful and boring drive along the freeway to Taree. Had our normal off freeway stop near Ourimbah north of Sydney for a leg stretch and loo break. What a sorry state of affairs our society has become. The local council has taken the unusual step of padlocking the toilet seats to the toilet bowls. Really who wants to steal a public toilet seat. Received a room upgrade to a Riverview Room at Midlands Motel. Nice vi...

Another road trip for son's kart racing. This time to Griffith for the Casella Wines Yellowtail Cup ... son is hoping for a better result than last year. Husband has apologised in advance for the boring drive which is apparently worse than crossing the Hay Plain! Son is already watching a movie and we haven't even left the A.C.T yet. I have been banned from joining him on the backseat to watch movies. After a quick stop at Harden we continued out through Tem...

Relaxing start in Albury with a walk along the banks of the Murray River after breakfast before heading to Melbourne. More boring highway, didn't pass through many towns until we actually reached Melbourne. Temperatures were on the rise early and by 10.00 am many of the livestock in the paddocks we passed were already seeking the shade. 37 degrees in Melbourne at the Todd Road Go Kart track where we will be spending the next three days as part of the Rotax Pro...

Started our road trip to Melbourne today, with Albury as our target for tonight. Been a few years since we have come this way by car and the Hume highway now bypasses many of the small towns we used to stop at for rest breaks. The Dog on the Tuckerbox near Gundagai looks pretty abandoned now, superseded by the Coles Express truckstop a bit further down the road. It's still a boring drive, unless you are the kid in the back seat watching movies...don't think husba...