Judy & Brian Tour Oz

Moree NSW 24 July 2026 Left Stanthorpe and headed to Moree. Took a backroad, a ‘C’ road at best. Tedious, bumpy, rough, slow. 80-85 was about it. Stopped at Texas to settle down for a half hour. Coffee and scone.  Texas. Queensland. July 2026 Back out onto the road and picked up the Bruxner Highway. Who are they kidding? Heaps better than the last goat track, but not fantastic. Turned left and headed to Warialda, another ‘C’ road and worse than the last. It was a toss-up what would break first, me or the van. Finally we arrived at Warialda and we just had to stop again. Found a little park and had a sandwich by the side of the van. From Warialda we picked up the Newell Highway and had an easy run across into Moree. Now, we have stayed at Moree once before and I swore i’d never come back, but here we are. Fortunately we are in a different park, The G’day park just out of town on the Newell Highway and it's reasonably pleasant. They have a little hot spring so we had a soak. Lov...

  Moree, NSW 25July2022 380km The day started out with the run up through Gilgandra, past Balladoran and the property Warrawillah, where Judy’s father was born and raised. We then swung across to Coonabarabran, where we took a late morning tea and a rest at Roses Cafe, before the 200+ km leg up through Narrabri to Moree.  The road had been plain sailing so far but the farther north we went the worse the road got, most road works to do with the new $37bn freight rail link between Brisbane and Melbourne. The project upgrades a bunch of existing lines and adds a pile of missing bits to complete the 1700 km railway line. The link even spurs off at Parkes and heads to Adelaide and Perth. Each train is 1.8km long and carries double-stacked containers, just like the ones that run between Adelaide and Darwin. Each train is designed to put 180 B-Double trucks off the road. Double-decker freight trains, heeding to a station near you. This one is in Port Augusta, SA Now in the past, I...