Road trip stories, route guides, and planning tips from the open road.
The Eyre Highway across the Nullarbor Plain runs 1,200 kilometres between Ceduna, South Australia, and Norseman, Western Australia, through a landscape that the word "flat" describes with technical accuracy and spectacular inadequacy. The Nullarbor, from the Latin for "no trees," a name deliver...
The Road to Hana is, in a technical sense, a highway. It is designated Hawaii Route 360 and connects Kahului to the small town of Hana on Maui's northeastern coast via 64 miles of road that contains 59 bridges (most of them single lane), 620 curves, and a density of waterfalls, botanical gardens...
Kerala is a state 38,852 square kilometres in area and divided into three distinct landscapes that the kerala road trip conveniently traverses: the coast (860 kilometres of beaches, lagoons, and the Arabian Sea), the backwaters (a network of rivers, lakes, and canals running parallel to the coast...
Rajasthan is a state that the word "colourful" approaches and then retreats from, sensing that it is being asked to carry a weight it was not designed for. The rajasthan road trip passes through cities that are literally colour-coded, Jaipur the Pink City, Jodhpur the Blue City, Jaisalmer the G...
The new zealand campervan road trip occupies a specific position in the hierarchy of New Zealand travel options: more independent than a tour, more convenient than a hire car and tents, more immersive than a hotel-based itinerary, and, in the shoulder season, between the summer crowds and the wi...
Spiti Valley is the Himalayas at their most uncompromising: a cold desert at 3,800 to 4,500 metres altitude in Himachal Pradesh, 90 km from the Tibetan border, accessible by road for approximately five months of the year and by nothing else for the remaining seven. The spiti valley road trip is,...
The auckland to wellington road trip covers 650 kilometres of the North Island's most varied landscape, volcanic plateau, thermal fields, farmland so relentlessly green it appears to have been adjusted in post-production, and a capital city that manages to be simultaneously one of the world's mo...
There is a point on the drive to Milford Sound, approximately 20 kilometres before the Homer Tunnel, at which the road enters the Eglinton Valley and the mountains close in on both sides with a verticality that makes the word "valley" seem like an understatement of some magnitude. The milford so...
The Icefields Parkway runs 232 kilometres from Lake Louise in Banff National Park to Jasper in Jasper National Park, through the Canadian Rockies, alongside glaciers, above turquoise lakes of a colour that the word "turquoise" is genuinely insufficient to describe, and beneath peaks that arrive i...