I recently travelled from Brisbane in Queensland to Canberra (Australia's Capital city) and back by car. We covered 3,500 kms (1,864 miles) and only retraced our steps for about 100 kms (50 miles).

This is the first of a series of articles about this epic journey, undertaken in Spring of 2012. I will endeavour to tell you about the journey, including the route taken, and the various places of interest we encountered along the way.

First though, I'd like to give you the itinerary for the first half of the journey, from Brisbane to Canberra. I'll include the towns we passed through.

At the end of this article, I'll include a link to the maps of NSW and Queensland for you to refer to.

 

Place	      Distance	(kms)    Distance (miles)    Time

Brisbane	0	          0.0

Rathdowney	100	          62                 1.2

Tenterfield	178	         108                 2.3

Glen Innes	91	          56                 1.0

Inverell	67	          41                 0.7

Delungra	33	          20                 0.4

Bingara	        41	          25                 0.5

Manilla	        106	          65                 1.5

Gunnedah	65	          40                 1.0

Mullaley	38	          23                 0.5

Coolah	        80	          49                 1.0

Dunedoo 	43	          26                 0.5

Gulgong	        42	          24                 0.5

Wellington	72	          44                 1.0

Molong	        68	           4                 1.0

Manildra	20	          12                 0.3

Cudal	        13	           8                 0.3

Canowindra 	36	          22                 0.4

Cowra	        32	          19                 0.4

Boorowa	        85	          52                 1.0

Harden 	        36	          22                 0.5

Yass	        49	          30                 0.5

Canberra	72	          44                 1.0

TOTAL	        1367 kms         849 miles           17.5 hours

If you would like to follow along using Google maps -
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