The Long Road To Bendigo (Episode 25)

Send us Fan Mail Nine weeks on the road and the Murray finally slips behind them, but Bendigo still doesn’t feel real. We pick up our 1852 overland trek right where the party crosses into Victoria, a colony gripped by Australian gold rush fever, and we track the next month of slow, stubborn progress through Mallee scrub, sandhills, swamps, and half-formed bullock dray tracks that barely resemble modern roads. We also step back to ask a messy question with big consequences: who actually...