road trip

See the sights in New York, hike in a National Park, visit Graceland, or party along Bourbon Street on your way from New York to New Orleans.

With several US stamps on my passport, I’d never actually ventured beyond the tourist traps of California and Las Vegas… until now.

‘What did you eat?’ is what I was asked the most after returning from a road trip through the USA’s Deep South. My answer, of course, was ‘everything’.

We take a look five of the United States’ most iconic road trips, with a guide to everything you need for the journey of a lifetime.

Feasibly the most famous of all the Australian road trips, the Great Ocean Road spans the 244-kilometre stretch from Torquay west to Warrnambool.

Road-tripping across America will reveal cinematic landscapes, bizarre roadside oddities and laugh-out-loud town names.

From the traditional Gers planted on a lonely steppe, to the rolling sand dunes of the Gobi Desert. Annapurna Mellor shares her experiences of road tripping across Mongolia.

It’s a remote part of the country that retains that feeling of being completely undiscovered. This is our journey from Coral Bay to Cape Range on Australia’s wild north-west coast.

Trina and I sat on my mum’s couch in Manchester, listening to a family friend try his best to talk us out of travelling across the Nullarbor.