I'm back so i'll elaborate on our road trip now....

When we drove to QLD we went up on the Hume to Sydney. We stayed a couple fo nights with DH's parents then drove to QLD on the Princes Hwy, it took about a day.

On the way home we went on the Newell. We left early in the morning and stayed overnight at Gilgandra (spelling?) then headed back to Melb.

I found the Newell took longer than the coast and wasn't as pretty a drive but we got to see the dish etc. I wish we had have had time in Dubbo to go to the zoo but we drove through there too early in the morning.

Our kids were 5,6 and 5 mths at the time. I was so worried about how they'd go in the car for so long but they actually enjoyed it. Portable DVD players weren't around back then, we kept occupied by counting road kill () and utes. We played games and chatted. We stopped ever 3 or 4 hours depending on when DD needed a feed. It was actually a pretty good trip, the kids got to see and experience so much, they still talk about it.