Dad and Son road trip to the outback

PradoMad,

Firstly congratulations on your choice (Outback or Singapore).
Just look at how many hours of driving experience you got!
The work you put into the video clip is to be commended.

Thank you for sharing,

Jim

Ditto.....excellent video, great music!

Prado Mad,
Very well put together, great trip, great taste in music :-))


Cheers,
Bill

What can you say GREAT!!!!!! but trip to short, you see alot, it must have seemed rushed. Plenty of hours at the wheel for son.

Hi Pradomad.

Great Picture and excellent music ,

Cannot wait for my chemo to finnish and as the song says to get back on the road

again.

Regards Dave.

some great memories created there on that trip for you and your son by the looks of that.
well done on the clip, found myself looking at some places we visited just last year, and also found myself tapping my foot along to your choices of music.
cheers

Hi PradoMad.


That was FANTASTIC, great choice,great video and great music, congratulations.

We will be doing similar trip mid August.

Cheers Robert

Wow...thank you. I just love it - both the video and the music.

You have captured so well the essence of those roads and places where most people never venture - the interesting signs and the moving landscape. And to spend that time with your son is invaluable and precious. Good on you!

We have a caravan so are limited as to where we go however my favourite parts of the trip we are currently still doing have been those off the bitumen..Willandra N Pk in west NSW, the Oodnadatta track, camping and walking in the Macdonnell ranges......I also spend much time on the dirt roads taking photos from the front passenger seat on the sport setting as we move through the area.

Still have almost a month to go and we are yet to get back to Boulia, Windorah and beyond. I am so looking forward to the free camps, the camp oven meals and the starry nights...

Despite the red dust, mice, slower bumpy roads - I never tire of it and just hunger for more...maybe its time we went back to a simpler travelling rig and left the van behind!

Regards,

Heather

An enthralling watch Pradomad. As others have said, well put together and priceless memories. Thanks for sharing with us. (still a bloody long way at 80k though.LOL) Cheers,Bob

Hi JS

Like the above replies, fantastic and brings back many great memories.

Thanks for taking your times to show us all.


Cheers



Stephen

Great stuff......thanks

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Best $1200 bucks I've seen spent for a long time.....absolute gem.

Fred

Inspiring and timely. Have just started thinking about a Kimberley trip with my tribe.
Logistics of 5 kids and maybe only one adult....

Thanks for that.

My son is taking me on a similar trip in September.

Ceduna - Adelaide - Birdsville - Innaminka - Longreach - Cameron Corner - Broken Hill - Adelaide.

"Thanks for the memories"

Enjoyed every second of it.

Bet a lot of bonding went on and how great to be just the 2 of you.

Haven't been out west since 1984 when there were no tar roads past Bourke

Di

wow..great feedback!
Thank you all for your nice comments. I have seen many places in this awesome country of ours and I'm trying to get my kids to appreciate what a special place the Australian outback is.
I believe there's a certain amount of magic which is difficult to explain as there are so many elements that captivate one's imagination.
JS.

Thanks for that - covered a lot of your journey in the reverse just last August.

Just watched your clip with my wife, Haha.............she wants to go back !

Great Stuff

Congratulations! I must say I am really impressed not just by the presentation you put together but also that you were prepared to invest the time and effort in your son. I am sure you will both fondly look back on that time together in future years . PS love your truck...long live the 95 series!

Hey PradoMad

What a timely thread. We have been planning a similar trip for a while, had hoped to have gone in these school holidays but work kept getting in the way [bloody mortgage!]. Ended up with a long weekend on the Murray.
Seeing your video has made us realise what we missed out on, and has also given us a preveiw of the driving conditions as it was to be our first road trip.

Thanks
Richard

Well done,

Your kid probably has more driving experience than 99.9% of the city kids out there getting their experience driving down to Bunnings on a Saturday morning.

Would love to see a video of the reaction when he hands in his experience log book.

Rob.

Absolutely fab video. May I asked, what did you use (software) to create it?

Thanks
Sass.

pradomad & son.
thanks, you brought back a lot of memory's, cheers bill

THANK YOU so much for sharing your trip with us all.
It was fun to watch & do the "been there!! seen that!! oooh where was that!!!"
Brought back fond memories of previous trips.
Kind regards
Blackie

PradoMad

I read somewhere once that good Dad's take their sons camping.

What a great trip and the best thing about it is that you went with your son.

I have done two trips with my son, in 2009 we went with a mate of mine to do Goog's Track and that was good.

Then in 2010 my son asked if I would take him to the Bridsvilled Track ferry, instead of the Gold Coast for Shcoolies...no brainer really. We had a ball and I know it brought us closer.

I didn't make a video but I have all the memories. They came flooding back as I watched your video. Thanks



Duncs

Bloody Fantastic mate, well put together,you went through some magic country,there's nothin better then to be out in the middle of no where and it's just u and a fire and the stars above.cheers GD