They failed to mention that the route is so rough that WWI hero Charles Kingsford Smith (for whom it's named) never drove the whole thing, just part.

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Colette Hume's cabin bag was first scanned after she checked in at Sydney's Kingsford Smith Airport for the QF107 flight to LA and New York on Monday morning.

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Another 200 miles north is Carnarvon, where we lingered only long enough to hear local boosters tout the thrill of driving the Kingsford Smith Mail Run, a route starting at the town's fully automated public toilet and ending inland some 500 miles farther on at Meekatharra.

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