No more reducing speed for Mittagong, braking to a halt in Berrima, negotiating that hard left turn in Goulburn, or stopping for a wee in Yass at what a proud council employee once told me were the most used public toilets in Australia.Instead, the city drivers cruise benignly by, the texture of rural life hidden from their gaze, secure in their belief that Australia consists of Sydney and Melbourne triangulated, if you must, by Canberra, with just a whole lot of unpopulated space in between.One of the many crimes perpetrated by cars is separation from community. New South Wales. There are a lot of historical houses here that are quite grand for their era. Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas Map. Here are 50 of the best things to eat, drink and do in the Victorian Surf Coast town.If Torquay isn't already on your travel bucket list, it should be. Between Conroys Gap and Coolac, most of the earlier alignment was replaced in 1983 and 1996 by realignment associated with dual carriageway construction, although sections such as that south of Connors Creek were rebuilt in 1979 with the earthworks being done for a second carriageway, which was subsequently built in 1994. Find everything from what books and maps to use, down to detailed turn-by-turn driving instructions to keep you on the Mother Road.

Robert Macklin, Hamilton Hume: Our Greatest Explorer, … Without wondering what it would be like to work the day in that fine garden, then sit on that deep verandah watching the dusty sun go down. The route is now both a registered cultural charity and on the heritage register. Route 66 Map. The remaining single-lane sections lined with gum trees are the making of a charming country drive. In his hit No Particular Place To Go, he sang the praises of just “cruising and playing the radio”.But it was his version of Route 66 that arguably best captured the magic of a single road that straddled two-thirds of North America from Chicago to Los Angeles. The original route led west from Tumblong along the Murrumbidgee River, before turning south over difficult country, crossing what is now the North of Albury, a major deviation of the highway was constructed in the 1930s due to the inundation of the original route caused by the raising of the wall of the Hume Dam on the A section of the Old Hume Highway, now known as the 28-kilometre (17 mi) stretch between the Cross Roads, south of 70-kilometre (43 mi) stretch between Camden and Aylmerton and between Aylmerton and the Medway Rivulet (part of There’s lots to see in the hills around here.”Frank Burke’s regard for the Hume began with his childhood. When the last NSW town on the Hume was bypassed two years ago, the NSW Roads and Maritime Services department issued just such a book, sub-titled Routes, Towns and Turn Offs on the Old Hume Highway. But there is great diversity and richness out there in the country.

It breaks the 550km of the Hume in NSW into 10 sections with maps colour-coded for the original route and the current one. Upgrading of the route from Sydney's outskirts to Melbourne's outskirts to dual carriageway was completed on 7 … Upgrading of the route from Sydney's outskirts to Melbourne's outskirts to dual carriageway was completed on 7 August 2013. Some enthusiasts have already gone further.In a backyard in the long bypassed gold mining town of Chiltern, near Wodonga, two former motor mechanics have begun recreating the roadside mileposts that existed on the surrounding section of the Old Hume.“We’ve made a wooden carcass and covered it with cement sheet for the post,” former RACV serviceman Adrian Gray says of the project he shares with Peter Gaston. Singer Lucky Starr has joined the cause by reviving his 1962 hit I’ve Been Everywhere but with new lyrics listing 86 Hume townships. Route 66 has become a destination in its own right, its appeal partly drawn from the popularity of the song, but also from the opportunity to experience small town America and its history.And probably also because, having been decertified as a national highway in 1985 when superseded by the Interstate freeway system, it’s become ‘alternative’ and you’ve got to go on a bit of search/adventure to find it.Frank Burke argues something very similar is on offer in Australia.It’s a number familiar to anyone doing the Hume Freeway run from Melbourne to Sydney, but it’s the old route 31, through places such as Beechworth and Berrima, that excites Frank.Every Victorian knows Beechworth as a wine and food destination and home to the courthouse in which Ned Kelly was committed to stand trial. Don’t bother.