The END To My Epic Simpson Desert Crossing - The Long Ride Home | A Souvenir | Lots Of Memories
Total days – 13
Route – Adelaide | Coober Pedy | Arckaringa | Oodnadatta | Dalhousie | Mt Dare | Simpson Desert | Birdsville | Adelaide.
Total Distance – 3180km (1975mi)
THE LONG RIDE BACK HOME
After a long late night of sharing travel notes with fellow travellers and listening to locals' yarns at the Birdsville Hotel, we got up early in preparation for our long drive back home (1100km).
Our sentiments were quite bittersweet as it was also the official end of our trip. I wasn’t looking forward to the long ride back home to Adelaide, so to make the most of what remained, I got up at the crack of dawn to stroll through the town, soaking in the sights, sounds, and the many historical locations. As I walked about, the sleepy little town was slowly coming to life and the distant aroma of camel pies, bread and pasties being freshly baked at the Birdsville bakery lured me in its direction. It was time to, one last time, celebrate our maiden crossing of the Simpson Desert and the end of an epic outback trip with a traditional camel pasty.
As we headed towards home, I bid farewell to the Outback promising to be back soon. There were so many places that remained to be explored. My bucket list just got a whole lot bigger.
A SOUVENIR
When I travel I try to take back home something authentic from each trip so that it remains unique and will give me many a talking point when I have friends and family over.
During this trip, I collected layers of the varying colour red sand from the Simpson. The storage "jar" was one of the "energy beverage" bottles we took along :)
Collecting the last layer of red sand on the top of BIG RED
Another souvenir to my collection
HEAPS OF MEMORIES
As my Simpson series comes to a close I would like to thank you all for having taken the time to read my posts. It is a wonderful feeling to know that I am able to share my travels with other travellers from around the world.
As I start planning my next outback trip, I leave you with some of my favourite pictorial memories.
Start of our epic trip.
Outback Sunrises are as spectacular and refreshing as it's sunsets.
Cold desert mornings takes a bit of getting used to. Nothing coffee cannot fix.
Lifegiving nature's elements in the middle of this desolate land.
Despite the harshness, life remarkably exists.
Dry river beds that occasionally flow makes up the array of every changing landscape.
When in the midst of a land dating back several hundred million years the feeling is hard to describe.
Spectacular night driving.
At the end of crossing over a thousand sand dunes.
#tinyplanet #teamaustralia #overlanding
If you missed the previous parts of this eight-part series, please use the links below to read all the posts from this amazing trip through Outback Australia.
PART 1 - An Underground City | SiFi Movie sets | Dynamite From The Local Supermarket.
https://steemit.com/travel/@overlandjournals/my-epic-simpson-desert-munga-thirri-crossing-part-1-of-8-an-underground-city-dynamite-from-the-local-supermarket-sifi-movie-sets
PART 2 - The Breakaways | Longest Dog Fence In The World.
https://steemit.com/travel/@overlandjournals/part-2-of-8-my-epic-simpson-desert-munga-thirri-crossing-longest-dog-fence-in-the-world-or-kanku-breakaways-conservation-park
PART 3 - A 80 Million Year Old Painted Desert.
https://steemit.com/travel/@overlandjournals/part-3-of-8-my-epic-simpson-desert-munga-thirri-crossing-an-80-million-year-old-painted-desert
PART 4 - Hot Water On Tap In The Middle Of The Outback.
https://steemit.com/travel/@overlandjournals/part-4-of-8-my-epic-simpson-desert-munga-thirri-crossing-dalhousie-springs-or-hot-water-on-tap-in-the-middle-of-the-outback
PART 5 - Car Trouble in the middle of nowhere with night approaching!
https://steemit.com/travel/@overlandjournals/part-5-of-8-my-epic-simpson-desert-munga-thirri-crossing-mt-dare-hotel-or-car-trouble-in-the-middle-of-no-where-with-night
Part 6 - My Epic Simpson Desert (Munga Thirri) Crossing - Into The Simpson | Big Sky Country
https://steemit.com/travel/@overlandjournals/part-6-of-8-my-epic-simpson-desert-munga-thirri-crossing-into-the-simpson-or-big-sky-country
Part 7 of 8 - My Epic Simpson Desert (Munga Thirri) Crossing - BIG RED | 3 States, 3 Time Zones - All in one place
https://steemit.com/travel/@overlandjournals/part-7-of-8-my-epic-simpson-desert-munga-thirri-crossing-big-red-or-3-states-3-time-zones-all-in-one-place
Live life to the fullest, it's too short to procrastinate!
Duncan Udawatta
I love the idea of collecting sand from different parts of the desert to layer in the bottle...what a treasured and visual memory that will be!!! Looks like an epic adventure. I only caught the end but will follow along to see future endeavors!
It was a wonderful trip. Wish I was still there :)
Links to the previous posts are at the bottom of this posting.
Sweet! I saw that! I’ll have a look :) we travelled around WA for 4 months a few years ago and want to do a longer trip soon (with our 4 kids so nothing too off-road) but I love seeing other Aussie adventurers.
If ever in SA, let us know. We love to meet another like-minded folk.
We are hoping to spend about 12 days travelling the Oodnadatta track in May or June. Not easy getting time off when self-employed :(
I live in Adelaide :) might meet you at the next meetup :)
Awesome. Looking forward to it.
What an amazing adventure and I just love the photo's. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you. It was an amazing trip.
That was a pretty epic adventure you went on. And you're supposed to be crossing stuff off the bucket list not...oh you know what just keep adding stuff to the bucket list, live that life in all its awesome glory XD
And that sand in the bottle idea is awesome! I missed if it was something you normally do on a travel or if this is the first time? Either way you need to have a collection :D
Every trip I try to collect something unique to the trip. This time I had to collect sand because of the ever-changing colours. I've got all sorts of stuff from previous trips. :)
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Looks like you had an awesome trip, would be great to hear some stories if you are keen to come to the next Adelaide steemit meetup :)
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Hey there. Yes I was thinking the same about that link :D
I wanted to attend April meetup, but got caught up with work. I've marked the calendar for the May meeting. Will do my best to attend. Will be awesome to meet everyone.
Awesome, the meetups are great fun and I always enjoy going. I never go out anymore unless it's to the meetup :D
It is great fun meeting up with like-minded people.
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