A holiday on the road has numerous stages. Here are the major steps you’ll typically go through on your ultimate self-driving adventure.
Planning the trip vigorously, but with room for spontaneity
You can feel the excitement brewing as you’re checking out your motorhome rental. You see your vehicle is equipped with internet access, and you’re relieved you can stay connected even if you end up in the middle of nowhere. But you also know you’re just going to use it to upload your amazing road trip holiday photos. You try to build an itinerary, but you’re not really going to be obsessive-compulsive about it because you know taking to the open road with a motorhome means being free and spontaneous.
Shopping for the essentials
You feel like you’re the emperor of the jerky aisle, because it’s the number one road trip snack you can’t simply leave without. You continue your snack-shopping spree with candy bars and other sweet stuff to feed your sugar-needing self-driving soul. You also go for trail mix, fruits, crackers and sandwiches and wrap them in zip lock bags because RVers also need healthy diets to balance off all …show more content…
You’ve been driving for hours, and you spot one of Australia’s 150 titanic totems that made roadside attractions a cult phenonemon. It could have been the fully operational Big Headphones (Newcastle), The Giant Mushroom (Belconnen) that houses a playground, The Big Mango (Bowen) that was stolen temporarily by a restaurant chain, the anatomically correct Big Mosquito (Hexham), the politically protesting Big Poo (Kiama), The Big Playable Guitar (Narandera) which is indeed the the world’s largest playable guitar, The Big Potato (Robertson) affectionately called as the Big Turd which was once mysteriously given a smiling face, and The Big Banana (Coffs Harbour) that has everything from a themed souvenir shop to an indoor ski slope. No matter which one you’ve seen, you acknowledge its