The Big Lap is changing. More Australians are trading the colour-coded maps and clockwise routes for something slower and freer: a lap of Australia done entirely on their own terms. We meet the travellers rewriting the rules of the road, and the experts who say this shift is only just beginning.
Forget the colour-coded maps and neatly planned clockwise loops.
Troy McLachlan and Areti Comino are doing the Big Lap the opposite way – loosely, freely, and without much interest in the traditional “must-do” checklist.
“We just go where we want to go,” Areti said simply. “That’s it.”
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