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Australia has some of the world's great driving roads — and some of the most punishing. From the Great Ocean Road to the Gibb River Road, the Nullarbor to the Snowy Mountains, John Connolly has driven them and written about what it actually feels like to cover serious distance in a serious car. These are the road trip stories.

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Sled Of The Year 2013
31-Jan-2013·1 min read

Sled Of The Year 2013

For around $2000 a head, the team at Hetta Huskies will take you dog sledding for 5 days deep in Finnish Lapland. The price includes all meals, six dogs each, blizzards, frostbite and all the gherkins, beetroot and dried reindeer meat you can eat.

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Sydney or the bush: road trips are in our DNA
30-Sep-2015·1 min read

Sydney or the bush: road trips are in our DNA

The black-box flight recorder, spray-on skin, the woomera, electric drill and Wi-Fi are all top local inventions, but none compare with Australia's greatest contribution to the world: the road trip.

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A quick 2,500km weekend drive
30-Sep-2015·1 min read

A quick 2,500km weekend drive

So it was time for a road trip to bring the Ute back from Melbourne to Sydney….via Broken Hill…..Broken Hill is an isolated mining city in the far west of outback New South Wales, Australia.

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Australian wildlife spotting with Team Weekend Australian
30-Apr-2015·1 min read

Australian wildlife spotting with Team Weekend Australian

On the 548km drive from Marree to Birdsville on what is without doubt the rockiest, harshest, most inhospitable piece of road in the known universe including Mars, Jupiter and Uranus, we were discussing why Birdsville was named Birdsville.

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Australian Road Trips
29-Feb-2012·5 min read

Australian Road Trips

A reader's extraordinary account of driving a Ford Consul from Lusaka through Sudan, Egypt and beyond in 1963 — navigating the Nile by paddle steamer, getting thrown out of the Grand Hotel Khartoum, and sleeping on a railway flat truck.

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Best outback Aussie road trips in ordinary cars for non-nomads
28-Jun-2025·1 min read

Best outback Aussie road trips in ordinary cars for non-nomads

Here's our pick of the best Australian road trips: at least 1000km, zero EV charging hope, no tourist traps.

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Get on your bike and enjoy the world's greatest road trips
25 Jan 2019·1 min read

Get on your bike and enjoy the world's greatest road trips

Happy Australia Day. Now that's over, let's get on to serious issues.

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Reasons why our road warriors are all the rage
24-Feb-2024·4 min read

Reasons why our road warriors are all the rage

Used car prices aren't dropping like a rat down a drainpipe but you won't even get an offer on your Holden Caprice. The recession everyone is pretending we don't have is biting.

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Warts and all account of the sleigh ride from hell
2016-12-31·1 min read

Warts and all account of the sleigh ride from hell

All you wanted to know about being freezing while having fun Dog Sledding. Tom and John's excellent adventure in Finland.

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Load of bull too much to bear on Nebraska roads
02-Sep-2023·4 min read

Load of bull too much to bear on Nebraska roads

Yes, this column is all bull. You've been saying it for years and today we confirm it with a story that is a metaphor for all that is going wrong in this weirdly woke world that is making the majority metal lovers bow t

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World's deadliest roads: Five wild drives that will need a head for heights
02-Aug-2025·1 min read

World's deadliest roads: Five wild drives that will need a head for heights

You think you've done it all. Topless in a Citroen DS 21 Chapron full tilt down the Boulevard Saint-Germain.

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