A Bug

We're in the Tropics

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May 30th 2010
We decided when we started this trip that we wouldn't drive more than 250 km a day but sometimes those kilometers seem twice as long. We haven't been impressed with the roads in Queensland in general. These bitumen roads aren't smooth and quiet like the pavement we know and love at home. It doesn't help that we have our entire home on our backs, so to speak, so the pebble-like roads have the wh ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more