Comments on: Road Trip

By: Abby

Abby — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 06:49:20 +0000

Hi!

My husband and I are planning our first ever road-trip. We have decided to fly into Cairns, pick up hire van and drive to Brisbane and fly back to Sydney…..so my questions to all you experienced road-tripers out there are:

Recommended sights along the way
Good camping stops/B&B’s along the way
What do you take in the way of food and how much? We are planning to go for approx 10 days.

As you have probably guesssed we are not fellow Aussies and have only been here just over a year. But am loving this wonderful country and want to see as much of it as we can.

Look forward to your comments and thanks for your help

By: cole

cole — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:58:16 +0000

I like road trips. Don’t get to take enough unfortunately.

By: Patricia

Patricia — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:17:40 +0000

There are some parts of America that are very desolate too and I have driven through many of them on road trips. I agree that there is something special about road trips that is not the same with flying–I think it’s that bonding experience from being cramped together in the car.

By: Perky

Perky — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:59:12 +0000

I love road trips. The longer, the farther the destination, even better

Wait, let me rephrase that. I love road trips if the company’s great

By: Sueblimely

Sueblimely — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:46:39 +0000

Long road trips we took with the kids were few and far between. In fact I think the last one was enforced on us as we were moving from Sydney to Melbourne and had to drive our car down.

The complaints and “are we there yets” would start within 10 minutes of home, travel sickness tablets did not always work and the results unpleasant for all concerned. As they got older the arguments added to the trauma of it all and no. 3 child just cried all the time, until he was old enough to not use a child seat.

Flights are most definitely my preference. I took them on an around the world trip with various stop overs in USA, Europe and Asia, mostly using public transport to get around. They behaved perfectly.

By: Colin Campbell

Colin Campbell — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:22:09 +0000

I haven’t taken many road trips since we have had kids. Those that I have taken, have been by myself or one other. My memories of those from childhood were all pretty bad. I am happy to limit my pain at this time. Yours sounded great.

Even my daily trips too and from school with the kids (10 minutes max) can be exasperating.

By: Kin

Kin — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:36:41 +0000

Hmmm, well.

I haven’t done one with kids in a few years, so I can’t really remember.

Did tons as a kid though, but I was an only child, so no comparison really. I think the road trip for us will be on the decline due to the rising cost of fuel, which is sad really…