Christmas Count Down - Days 10, 11, 12 and 13
Taking a Road Trip as part of your Christmas vacation can be an exhausting activity, as I have just found out. In the past 9 days I have traveled in excess of 3600 kilometers. The roads were very busy, packed with other holiday makers and trucks transporting goods up and down the coastline. There were also numerous road works requiring extensive stops and detours. Isabel asked "Why do they schedule all the road works for the busiest time of the year?" A question I expect my fellow travelers were also pondering at the time. Our journey to and from Mackay took us along the infamous "Murder Highway". This is a 300 kilometer stretch of highway between Rockhampton and Malborough and Sarina. Locals dubbed it this after a spate of murders (five in total), rapes, robberies and assaults back in the 1960's and 1970's. I remember when I was living in Townsville over a decade later people still having qualms about travelling the road alone. ...