Rent a motorhome and explore Australia – Oprah’s new best friend

ANYONE who believes for a minute that Oprah Winfrey’s visit Down Under and resulting TV shows won’t have an impact on Australian tourism should think again. Within the next two years our roads will be filled with American explorers, many of whom will no doubt choose a motorhome rental to discover our vast continent’s countless travel hotspots.
After all, the RV road trip style of experience is a favourite pastime of our US brothers and sisters. Add to that the fact there’s a boom in Aussie holiday parks and the oft-picturesque backdrops that present on our many and varied routes [...]

Driving holidays – Darwin to Timber Creek (Northern Territory)

The journey

Warning: when doing this 564-kilometre drive, make sure you fill up at every single petrol station – even if it’s for only $10! We were caught out and ran out of diesel. Mind you, it wasn’t entirely my fault as the last petrol station we had stopped at had no diesel, but if I had topped up at the previous one, I would have been OK. Thank God for road trains! One kind chap stopped and syphoned me out a few good litres of diesel. It was 46 degrees outside and I couldn’t work out how [...]