Well, I think I've got it worked out. I can't think of what else to do for this year's February holiday and it's been ages since I travelled inside the country (interstate city work travel notwithstanding), so here's the vague plan:

• Fly to Perth.
• Get the Indian Pacific to Sydney.
• Get on some boringly-named train to Brisbane.
• Get the Sunlander to Cairns (I'd get the Tilt Train but, like, it doesn't have a Slim Dusty song written about it).
• Fly home.

I've got about 10 days of slack to stop off in various places. but I'm not really sure where. Is there enough to do in Broken Hill to kill the 3 and a half days until the next train, for instance? Or should I just give into the groupthink and hang around all those costal towns and stuff (I'm a bit of a novice at the whole Queensland Thing, really)? I'm open to ideas. I promise to try and take some nice photos.

I thought about getting a bus somewhere or other, but my girlfriend gave me that look - I felt just like Jonathan Richman and his song You're crazy for taking the bus. But never mind.

Oh yes. here's a nice rail map of Australia, too.