Roma deserves an overnight stop to take in all it has to offer. Start at the Big Rig, which combines the Tourist Information Centre, display on oil and gas exploration, historical buildings and gardens for picnics. Romavilla Winery, Queensland’s first wine making enterprise, is just past the main street and still producing a fine drop. For an up and close rural experience, call into the Roma Saleyards – the largest store cattle selling facility in Australia. Every Tuesday witness the sites and sounds of live cattle auctioning from the purpose built catwalks and then try a steak sandwich from the canteen. Call in and see the heritage listed Mt Abundance Homestead, the amazing Ace Drapers No. 2 store, take the Hospital Hill Walk, and the court house where Captain Starlight was finally sent to trial in 1872. There are two alternative routes from Injune. The first takes you straight up the highway, the other does a loop through sand hills covered in grass trees, past giant bottle trees – it is recommended for 4WD only – just follow the Tourist Drive Signs starting 16 kilometres north of Roma. Then into Injune – the gateway to the Carnarvon