An 87-hour bus trip made Australia feel like home for me – now I long to rediscover it

 When I spent a year in Australia as a young Brit on a working holiday visa in 2000, I took a bus from Broome to Sydney. It took 87 hours.


We hurtled over rugged red earth to Katherine, pelted down the Stuart Highway to Adelaide, dining with truckies, swooning over outback sunsets and enjoying eccentric tales in quirky roadhouses. From Adelaide we powered east across dry brown plains, honking road trains and knocking kangaroos along the way.



Read more:https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/sep/23/an-87-hour-bus-trip-made-australia-feel-like-home-for-me-now-i-long-to-rediscover-it



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