“Going Bush”

No, not deciding to join the dwindling number of Americans who think the current president is anything but a disaster. In local parlance we are heading into the interior for the closest we'll have come to the outback. First stop will be the old mining town of Charters Towers, then we'll head north towards the rainforests at the northern end of the Great Dividing Range before descending back to the coast at Cairns, the best gateway to the Great Barrier Reef. After that we'll head swiftly west and deep into the country's “Red Centre”.