20111130 Updated Qld Roma & Injune

20111130 We packed up and traveled onto Roma sitting perched up in the truck with my camera on my lap taking in the changing landscape and the many road-trains that over taking these grey nomads chucking along the Warrego Highway.  Passing many scatted towns with their season crops of sorghum, wheat, barley, maize, chickpeas and sunflowers before arriving in Roma, the town of the grand old Bottle Trees and the biggest cattle saleyards in the southern hemisphere.

Be sure to stop at the Big Rig just before you hit the town and learn about the discovery of oil and gas in Australia.

The streets are lined with large Bottle Trees called, The Heroes Avenue that consist of 93 bottle trees in remembrance of the men of Roma who died in WWI. 

The first tree was planted in 1918 in honor of Lieutenant Corporal Norman Saunders who was killed in France in 1916 and is now known as the tree knowledge.

We stayed the night at Injune just outside of Rome that's full of miners and where origin gas is mined. We walked to the pub for a couple of drinks at the historic Injune Hotel where Des found a wall full of signature's & comments from people all over the world, so we joined the other travelers and signed our names on the wall. Injune Hotel has no porkies or keno, a decision made by all the locals.

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