For those who do decide to break up the humdrum of the Hume Highway, detour to Gorge Scenic Drive and the historic Beechworth Cemetery.
Dr. Michael L. Power, author of The Evolution of Obesity, says humans evolved with limited access to food and have a biological drive to gorge when easy calories are available.
Dr. Jabbar Khel himself drives the gorge several times a week.
Forty-one hours had passed since they failed to drive into the gorge.
From Brisbane, the drive to Carnarvon Gorge via Roma takes a full day.
A drive through the Gorge will take visitors through Hood River and the historic town of The Dalles, known as the end of the Oregon Trail.
We crossed the Apurimac River and drove through the gorge in which Thorton Wilder's "Bridge of San Luis Rey" was set.
He showed me a spot two miles west of Twin Overlooks where a man and a woman had driven into the gorge successfully.
Driving above the gorge is rewarding, too, with several superb viewpoints, such as the Oxia and Ay Paraskevi monastery, a short walk from Monodendri.
Bouncing Back, the spoof account of his nervous breakdown which culminated in a barefooted drive to Dundee after gorging on Toblerone, tanked in the book sales chart.
