Road Trips

[Bally002]

As some of you may or may not know, we are a Road Trip/ Food family. Never had experiences as a kid with this stuff, so decided one day to start a new tradition with my kids. Since 2014, we average about 45,000 miles a year in a truck to chase down food paradise hot spots in the USA. 

Tons of memories, the kids love it, 32 states and counting, and I couldn't be more blessed with these troopers that love seeing this great land and all of the hidden gems. 

However, with that said, Dad also plans his own trips to add to the bucket list. I bought a Harley and have a dozen bike trips on the docket, I bought a yacht and have some sailing trips planned... wait, I didn't buy a yacht, scratch that, had too much to drink and had dreams again the other night...

Either way, saw this and just died laughing. Mind you, may need help from 2 of my 3 favorite G's to verify (Google and @Gordi ) but if this is legit I'm totally bringing the Harley on an international trip!




Legit or not, what's the best trip you've taken, OR the best trip you can imagine taking? Not opposed to air travel stories, but curious to hear from true wanderers and be inspired. 

I've had 3 memorable trips, one for 5 months, North to South and East to West across Australia all with the children, deserts, tropics and one time towing the family boat/launch in which the children slept when we stopped overnight.

So many places it's hard to pick a favorite.   Crossing central Australia was special.  We would visit Broome, Cairns, Shark Bay, Cooper Pedy, Eden, Jarvis Bay, Cape Leeuwin, Groote Eylandt and many places in between if I could again.  Steered away from the cities.  Driving all the way we would stop at remote or indistinct places, set up camp and have fun around the fire.  

So any one trip is hard to pick out.  Did enjoy the Sandy Blight Junction road from Kintore (edge of Gibson Desert) to Uluru.  (Worked at Kintore at the time) From there we went east and crossed the Simpson desert and onto Birdsville.  South East to the Coast from there for the beach which we hadn't seen for years.  Bonus was that we hit the coast to stay and it started snowing in the "Snowy Mountains" in November which was odd so we packed up and hit the mountains and enjoyed a few days in the snow, albeit ankle to knee deep but it melted quickly.  Kids had never seen snow so we spent some time at 'Dead Horse Gap' building snowmen and having snow fights.  Made a difference from the desert.  Kids, tents and a camp fire in a secluded location under the stars, can't beat it.

Kind regards,

Bally :)