A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE
MEMORIES OF LONG CAR TRIPS are the stuff of family folklore. As the daughter of a country school teacher, international travel was never an affordable option for my family. Instead, come holiday time my parents would pack me and my four siblings into the car and hit the road, heading to some faraway tourist destination with countless other holidaymakers.
The way I remember it, the journeys were always long and hot, but nostalgia is a powerful driver. Which is why, 30 years later, I decide to set off with my own three children to recreate a road trip from my own childhood to Dubbo, with its fabled zoo (in those days known as Western Plains Zoo,
