Victoria

A caravan adventure

Plagued with doubts, first-time caravanner David Reyne buckles up and hits the highway.

Victoria

Get outta town: top 10 Melbourne day trips

Sick of the city and the suburbs? Craig Mathieson suggests 10 day trips from Melbourne to put the spring back in your step.

Australia

Are we there yet? Great Australian road trips

Long an aficionado of the summertime road trip, Lee Atkinson recalls her all-time favourites.

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Victoria

High on four wheels

David Reyne finds there are no wrong turns as he explores a rugged track in Gippsland.

Victoria

Bright to beauty in the high country

It's amazing what a tar job can do, writes Lee Atkinson, as she discovers one of Australia's most spectacular driving routes.

NSW

Beauty of the back country

Lee Atkinson raises some dust on the road less travelled between Mildura and Broken Hill.

Road trip

The pillion princess diaries

Lee Atkinson braves helmet hair and heavy rain on a motorbike from Adelaide to Sydney.

Australia

The fateful shore

Dugald Jellie takes a Captain Cook at the east-coast landmarks spied by the explorer, from Point Hicks to Botany Bay.

World's greatest drives

The highway is a grand canvas, a drive-in screen for our own epics, especially on these five great excursions.

Driving

World's greatest drives: take the long way home

John Borthwick finds some of the world's most spectacular scenery sitting by the side of the road.

Drives

Journey down memory lane

Paul Daffey buckles up for a grand road tour of his home state.

Drives

The long and winding road

Dugald Jellie takes the scenic coastal route from Sydney to Melbourne.