It all star­ted quite bor­ing and inno­cently with a rainy 6 hour drive from Mel­bourne to Can­berra. I had even­tu­ally met up with Domi­n­ique, one of my travel bud­dies (formal intro­duc­tions will have to wait until Kat­rina, our last travel buddy, arrives in a few days), in Mel­bourne. She had just come back from Can­berra with a friend and we decided that the cheapest option for us to get north was to drive up again to Can­berra with said friend. Con­tinue read­ing →