Lee Atkinson is one of Australia’s leading experts on travelling in Australia.  As a travel writer, Lee is constantly looking for fresh destinations, new ways to see the world and the latest holiday hotspots.

Author of Australia's Best National Parks, Caravanning Australia: 50 great destinations; The Australian Adventure Atlas, On the Road: 40 great driving holidays in Australia, and the former editor of the country’s highest circulating motoring and travel magazine, The Open Road, Lee has been writing about her adventures on and off the road since 1991. 

Her road trip website OzyRoadTripper has dozens of great Australian road trip ideas and her Australian Road Trips app (available for iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch and Android Smartphone) has all the maps and information you need to hit the road on an Australian driving holiday.

She is also the author of several Frommers guide books, including Sydney Free & Dirt Cheap, Sydney Day by Day and Bali Day by Day.

Past president of the Australian Society of Travel Writers, Lee is also co-editor of two anthologies of Australian travel writing, Best Foot Forward and Red Dust & Wanderlust.

Her work also appears regularly in The Sun Herald, SA Motor, The Open Road, The Road Ahead, Well Being, nrma.com.au, 9MSN, Australian Traveller, Audi, and Vacations & Travel magazine. When not travelling on assignment, Lee divides her time between Sydney and the NSW mid-north coast.