I'm loathed to use road designations as I've always grown up knowing roads by their names. But the road names along my route home are so multiple that the road number designation works better in this instance.
Returning home to the south eastern suburbs from Wodonga there are two routes; the Hume Freeway, then the Western Ring Road/Metropolitan Ring Road, and then the 'missing link' of roads to the Eastern Freeway followed by a trip down EastLink. I hate the Western Ring Road / Metropolitan Ring Road, I just find it a very dangerous-feeling road to be travelling on.
I've driven both routes in the past, and the B300 is a much more interesting and landscape-diverse route to drive.
Glenrowan Maccas
Leaving Wodonga in the morning, cold vapour escaping from my breath I departed, not stopping anywhere in Wodonga for breakfast. Instead opting to pull into a the road house in Glenrowan of the petrol station and McDonald's for a fill up of diesel and breakfast. There was only one QR code in the McDonald's and it was on the pick up counter, I didn't notice any on the doors.
Bonnie Doon
Continuing along the Hume Freeway Google tried to re-route me towards Melbourne because it would save 7 minutes. No thanks.
Turning left off the Hume Freeway (M31) onto Mansfield Road (B300), this becomes the Midland Highway, which then joins the Maroondah Highway and goes through Bonnie Doon, which then joins the Goulburn Valley Highway and then in Yea you turn off onto the Melba Highway which takes you down through the Yarra Valley where eventually you end up back on the Maroondah Highway, and eventually onto EastLink.
It's a shorter route, however in theory it takes more time owing to the speed limit being a mix of 80 and 100 km/h vs the Hume Freeway's 110 and 100 km/h.
And the changes in elevation / road shape as you travel south vs the quite consistent and few extreme curves on the Hume Freeway.
But it's just a nicer route, going through small towns, up and down the landscape through farms, some bushland and past dams and other things. It's the more scenic route.