Nick: On Monday morning, the air bright and crisp, we said goodbye to our Sydney hostel for the last time and made our way to the area around the international airport, to pick up our hire car. For the next eleven days, we would have the services of a silver Toyota Camry to deliver us from place to place. Although we had a rough idea of some of the destinations we planned to visit, we hadn't booked any accommodation and as such the road trip was something of a blank canvas - the only requirement being that we were in Brisbane by the 21st May to return the car. Since Brisbane is located north of Sydney, some distance up the Pacific coast, the idea was to make our way up there slowly, stopping for a day
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