ABPA - Australian Bush Poets Association

He Who Hesitates Is Not Only Lost But Miles From The Next Exit.

There's a tablet you can take for that, Vic.

Ain't the truth! Guess if you are in the wrong lane that also applies....

This could have gone in daily advice ? Three extra posts we have lost now ??


Bpb

It's a competition?

Been travelling the Ipswich motorway Vic??? You are braver than I am - I admire anyone who travels any of our main roads these days

Traveling down the Hume Highway recently it occurred to me (actually re-occurred to me) that the new highways are similar to deserts. You go for miles and miles without actually passing through towns or villages as we did in the old days and while I appreciate the improved driving conditions these new roads are empty and barren, unless you count the super sized service stations complete with golden arches and KFCs.

You certainly have to plan your petrol stops carefully. From memory, on the Hume, there is nothing between Holbrook in NSW and Winton in Victoria. Been caught that way once before - and soon Holbrook will also be bypassed.

I used to drive semi trailers down the old (and I mean old) Hume Highway and while I agree the new roads are a vast improvement they nevertheless are, as I said before, deserts. All those little and not so little towns I used to go through and occasionally stop for a beer in (we used to do that then) or a feed are now by passed and dying. I remember thirty years ago someone telling me that in excess of three thousand semis a night used to pass through Goulburn. Not so good if you lived in the town, but other towns depended on the trucks for their survival.
We recently stopped for a cup of tea at one of the parking areas on the Hume and at the rear a segment of the old highway was still visible. I couldn't believe that I drove semi trailers on such a skinny ribbon of road. Wonder a bloke's still here!