Alistair Smith''s Retrospective Road trip on Hwy 1

Our veteran newspaperman, Alistair Smith is on a road trip retrospective as he relives life on the road trip up Highway One from Melbourne to Far North Queensland, a 5000-mile/9000 km trip he did in the Ford Falcon station wagon many years ago. Alistair, who is a trained observer as a journalist, kept a diary which made for interesting reading decades later. The cost of things along the way will astound you by comparison with today.

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