Road trips ain't what they used to be… | Canberra CityNews
SARA MILNE pines for the simpler life, the sepia-tinted days of the late 1980s… and maps, remember them? BACK in the day, when dinosaurs roamed the earth and navigation was by way of the stars, my husband and I went on a road trip around Australia and NZ. Sara Milne. It was the sepia-tinted days of the late 1980s. Picture the scene. Our rented car puttering along deserted highways, my husband driving, one hand on the steering wheel, the other holding a cigarette out the window. Me sitting with my feet up on the dashboard, eating a bag of crisps, bopping along to some Van Halen anthem ...