Weekly Travel Theme: Roads

March 3, 2013 by A tale or two to tell..... | 5 Comments

Ailsa picked a very fitting theme for this week, considering she is travelling around on an amazing road trip through the USA:

http://wheresmybackpack.com/2013/03/01/travel-theme-roads/

As a traveller and adventurer, roads are something I have seen a lot of. I like going places – roads generally take you places. Its a great love affair.

There are so many cliches about roads: The road less travelled, the great open road, the road to nowhere. I love all of them.

A lot of the time I enjoy the journey far more than the destination ( another cliche!), and generally speaking, that journey takes place along a road…..a paved road, gravel road, dirt roads, flooded road, one way road…..You never know where that road will lead you.

Allow me to share a few of the my favourite stretches of road.

The road into Lightning Ridge, a small opal mining town in country NSW – Australia

Some local kids we encountered on our bike trip through Vietnam

Cyclists share the road to Broken Hill, NSW – Australia

The Royal National Park- NSW- Australia

The winding mountain road from Dalat to Nha Trang – Vietnam

That famous red dirt Australian road

Our van broke down outside of town….I would like to say this was our attempt at getting the attention of the locals so they would bring us petrol….but, alas, it was simply my friend taking advantage of the great open road while our rescuers bought us fuel to carry on our adventure !

My friends on their vespas riding through Vietnam

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