Big Loop road-trip stats ...

We travelled from Thurgoona to the NSW south-coast and had a wonderful mini holiday there as a Family of Five. It was awesome!

We'd planned our final week of road-tripping to be a coast trip with a couple of stops to enable longer catch-ups with family and friends. We really enjoyed seeing so many favourite people - and revisiting places along the way.

We had to be home for several medical reviews so made the most of the time we had - going as far as we could and trying to see as many friends/family as possible en route.

Heavy rain impacted our travel home but we got back on time - and the "kids" survived admirably without us, in spite of our suburb flooding, there being SES boats at the driveway, being cut-off for several days and without power for five.  We were very proud of them and their improvisations! 

Big Loop statistics:  we covered 5,000ish kilometres over 23 days. Queensland to New South Wales, then South Australia and Victoria before looping back through New South Wales to home. We stayed at Moree. Nyngan. Wilcannia. Menindee Lakes. Broken Hill (and Silverton). Peterborough. Adelaide. Bannockburn. Toorak (Melbourne). Wodonga. Erowal Bay. Blacksmiths (Lake Macquarie/Newcastle) and finally, Nambucca Heads. 

We spent just under $2,000.00 on fuel, with most of our travel accomplished before fuel prices rose significantly.  (Three weeks after returning home, petrol is $2.12/litre at our most local servo).  Our accommodation varied a fair bit but averaged $145.00 per night. Although we self-catered most breakfasts, we dined out a lot more than usual but that was part of this adventure and we didn't begrudge ourselves the splurge.