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This was heaps better... Sorry your frustration in the last video was so evident. Travelling at night etc etc...this pace was better. As i mentioned last time.. when you go back home check out, one pack wanderers and write down some of those amazing places they saw and definetly come back and really enjoy some more natural wonders. Your storytelling was amazing this video. Stay safe...

Wow..... You really didnt plan... Or at least, ask the locals. No one would have said drive at night. Regional/outback motel managers arent sitting around waiting for tourists to just rock up. And you missed so much along the way in your haste to get to sydney from adelaide. Australia and its beauty takes months to see properly... But as you said you live and learn. Someone else mentioned One Pack Wanderers. They absolutely did it right and very respectful of our country. On a final note. Your b& b wasnt that bad. Hmmm you may not survive this trip unless youre prepared to go 5 star if a couple of aussie bugs freak u out. Youre kind of doing Aus wrong if you think you can see it all in 3 weeks... But I suppose thats youre perogative....but you end up missing the point.. Slow down and smell the clean air. And most importantly, TRAVEL SAFE and ask the locals...

here are 10 small tips to any US citizen that wants to visit Australia. 1. leave your attitude along with your guns at the departure lounge. 2. don't panic! it will be there waiting for you when you get back, we don't want it. 3. you cannot buy a gun here as easily as you can in the US, nor carry a gun over here, this is not the wild west as it is in the USA. 4. enjoy the sites the food and the different cultures. 5. Australia has a culture, they have song, dance and food and we are proud of it. 6. The US has, Levi's jeans, McDonalds, mass shootings, guns and bombs and you are proud of it? 7. take lots of photos, buy the occasional souvenir. 8. when you get back to the US "the home of the brave and the free," pick up your gun and your attitude, you will notice it is still there intact as you left it. 9. Show your friends the photos and tell them you had a nice time. 10. Oh and don't forget to tell your friends you experienced real freedom for the first time in your life not having to carry a GUN!

All I hear is a whole bunch of wringing. How can you expect to get a real feel of our country by spending so much time in the car. Even i would hate that.

Why would you go to Hay and not canberra? You can drive to both in about 4 hours from melbourne. Start early and youve got an afternoon in Canberra’s national museums and galleries (plus parliament house). There’s nothing in Hay (unless you really like cows and fields). But better yet, the Indian Pacific train runs from the indian ocean to the pacific. It does all these stops - perth, adelaide, melbourne, Sydney. All safely and you can hop off for a few daysin the major stops if you want. If you want to visit Canberra you can get off at Hays. You can put a car on the Indian Pacific if you can afford it. Do NOT cross the Nullarbor by car. Its not for everyone and id be concerned for you guys if you tried it. Im a sandgroper- a west australian - and i grew up with huge distances and harsh climates. We get a lot of tourists who get out of their depth here and some pay the ultimate price for their mistakes. I wouldnt want you guys getting in over your heads here. Ps bear in mind these small inland country towns dont get a lot of visitors amd theyre not set up for them, even the regional cities are not particularly tourist-friendly. Most places like that the options are pretty crappy. Try to stick to the tourist places and the larger cities. You wont miss anything if you do. This is a big country and theres a lot of ‘nothing interesting to see’ in it.

I am glad you had a good time in our country I enjoyed your videos take care all the best

.........don't kick yourselves, you went the distance guys,...........if you do it again you will understand the logistics of road tripping down here a bit better and hopefully enjoy your experience without the pain of learning it all......

Your complete lack of planning has nothing to do with Australia.

Unless you love sitting in a car, driving Adelaide to Sydney to Melbourne and back to Adelaide in a week is not a great way to experience Australia.

Trip of a lifetime

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heya! so happy your stay in Collingwood was memorable! I'm from Melbourne, living in California and planning a trip home in 2025. Do you remember the name of the AirB&B you stayed in? That would be perfect for our homecoming trip!

The Great Ocean Road is the biggest War Memorial in the World. Built by returned WWI servicemen. That air was fresh off the ocean from Antarctica.

Left Melbourne after dawn one road trip, turned off the main highway (Hume Highway to Sydney) to go to Queensland via the Newell Highway and passed a farmer trying to herd dairy cows off the side of the road … apparently a University lecturer had come through there hours earlier in the dark and the cows had broken down a fence, wandered onto the high way and the driver had been killed when he hit a cow … driving at night is very risky.

Y’all seem like nice folks. But seriously, travelling in Australia, plan to be in a town by 4pm, check into a motel, have a walk around, dinner at the pub, then get going the next morning. You will have a much better experience. Lucky you didn’t go to New Zealand. Everything there closes at 3 pm …

Cooler? You mean an esky …

you could of used the net to book ahead , and welcome to Australia

Australia is vast, and it’s easy to underestimate the distances between towns, places of interest. There’s lots to see but also lots of monotony. Research the trips, sites, maps, open hours of camp sites and weather. Have fun.

It's called an Esky mate not a cooler. Also driving at night in those parts could be risky with. 'roos on the road etc.

Pronounced Melburn

Everyone “says Melbourne” because Victorians are incredibly insecure & have a thing about putting “the big kahuna” down, much like how people put down the biggest, most important cities in the US

Well I'm glad you've learned your lesson, and to better prepare your trip to Australia next time. Glad you enjoyed Melbourne and Victoria (from a Melbournian).

Hello family, good on you for having a go! Yes unplanned, but you had such an experience, pluses and minus'. I love your living and learning attitude and good humour, enjoy the rest of your trip! Especially the Great Ocean Road. Drive carefully there, it is so beautiful but many tight bends around the coastline so attention is needed to the road and what other drivers are doing. There are many places to stop and get out to enjoy the view. As a Melbournite I hope you have a great time here, Botanical Gardens is a good place to start and nice for a picnic with your cooler (weather permitting). All the very best, you seem such lovely people I hope it all goes well for you. 😎😘

Who ever planned your trip needs to give it to someone else

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Your basically Aussies now , I hitchhiked that same run when I was 16 took 3 days though.cheers

You guys are crazy!!?? I agree with all the advice given by others! For heaven’s sake,do your research before you come here?

If you landed in Brisbane then drive to melbourne woulda been a wholle lot better for scenery and motels that are open...its all 4 lane freeway and populated. Come back ya gotta see Cairns and the Whitsunday islands. White sand beaches and lots of 🌞 sunshine

All good. Hope your short trip was enjoyable. It suprises me you still say 'Mel born', surely you've heard everyone else saying 'Mel bun'? That's how an Aussie says Melbun. 🙃🇦🇺

Australia is as big as the USA with a much smaller population. It take 5 hours to fly a commercial plane from Perth on the West coast of Australia to Sydney on the East coast. It takes 5 hrs to fly from Los Angeles to New York.

Adelaide Sydney across Hay plains have ten hours good music on the car stereo, set the cruise. Always carry emergency water supply and stick with your vehicle the event of breakdown. In summer it gets very hot out there and without water can be life threatening. For motels if you are getting in late always ring ahead, most will give you a room number and leave keys under the doormat.

You seem nice but not very smart. Fortunately you weren't in the outback. Australia could have been your coffin and you'd get no sympathy for endangering the child😮

You'll have to come back as you have missed a lot of what's here to experience and show you. 😎 Just a shame it's a short trip and I hope to see more videos that'll be longer. Yeah editing on the go is hard but you put in the hard work the rewards are definitely worth it just like Australia mate.

Don't worry, you're not the first group to make the mistake of underestimating road travel in Australia. You simply can't see the country in the time you have allowed yourselves. You need to take into account jet lag as driving tired on those endless roads can be genuinely dangerous. The best advice I can give any travellers to Australia is to never try and do it all at once. It's as crazy as trying to see the US in a week. The best strategy is to go to one area and stay there for a few weeks, get to know it and come back another time and do another area. It's way more enjoyable.

Glad you slowed down to enjoy Australia, some of your rough start I think was from rushing.

You have a great story telling voice, l really like the Southern American twang in your voice,keep telling your story.

As a warning as a truck driver in Australia driving on country roads at dusk and dawn in a car is the most dangerous thing you can do. And when driving on country roads don't drive to close to trucks because if they hit a kangaroo it will go under the truck and be spat out from under the trailer and throw your frount window and either hit the driver or or passenger it happens to tourists alot

Thanks for that. Capital cities are pretty similar around the world. I'd always take a road trip in whatever Country I visit. The countryside is what let's you know you're in a foreign country. I'd far rather take Route 66 from Chicago to Los Angeles than any Freeway. 🇦🇺👍

Really glad that you guys had a better second week there are plenty of great places to see in Australia you just have to know where they are and the best way to get between them. This country like the US is vast especially when your time is compressed so flying is probably your best option then hiring a car and exploring each area once you get there. I know that vacation time in the US is shorter and Australia is a long way to come so I guess you can only do what time allows. I hope that you can come back one day a week in south east Queensland and a week in Cairns would be a nice experience just dont do it in the middle of out summer, spring and autumn are ideal times to be up there.

EVERY American video I watch is full of complaining and pettiness. These guys at least had some positives to say, but they would have enjoyed it much more if they'd planned better and not tried to cover so much ground so quickly. We live and learn however, so I hope they'll get an opportunity to visit again and chill more. It's a laid back country friends. Slow down and enjoy. Peace..

It’s always been called the National Gallery of Victoria because before federation Vic was setting up to be an independent state.

What beautiful views! And those koalas are so freakin adorable!! And so are you ladies holding them!

1 day in Sydney??? You saw nothing. And you might want to talk to some locals and learn how to pronounce the names of the towns that you visit before you film.

Hay to Wagga is 270 ks, close to a 3 hour drive. You should have stopped at the last town, Balranald, which is 90 minutes earlier.

G.O.R., the worlds largest war memorial, built by returned servicemen.

In general most Australian don't like driving at night especially with families. Wild life are most active at night.. But it's part of adventure you learn from experience. Enjoy Australia don't forget to put sunscreen all the time..

I dont want to be rude , but you have to be crazy to attempt this trip without realising that this is not the US. With 340million people over the same area as Australia 26 million, stands to reason that there are going to be fewer convenient stops etc . Please do some checking for the future.

Hey we saw Oliver yesterday we miss you guys and love you

Beautiful video. Last weeks mishaps are a true representation of what real life is about and we can never be truly prepared for everything. So don't let negative comments affect your experience. Thank you for sharing your families adventures.

OMG! The trip you had from Adelaide to Sydney was like the first time I tried to take my husband from Warnambool to Melbourne via the Great Ocean Road (GOR). It was Easter Sunday 30 years ago and we had just returned from two weeks holiday on Kangaroo Island. My hubby refused to let me book accommodation for the night and no one mentioned there is always a HUGE surfing carnival there at Easter. We planned to sight see, then stay in a motel, see some more before visiting my aunt over an hour's drive from Melbourne at the base of the Dandenong Ranges. We ended up arriving at my aunt's home at 4am. 31 years later, in April 2025 (BEFORE Easter surfing carnival and school holidays!) I have planned and BOOKED for two nights glamping (a Xmas pressie from our daughter) at a winery at the start of the GOR, then three nights at my sister-in-law's holiday home at Apollo Bay and then two nights at Port Campbell before going home via Hall's Gap and the Grampians National Park. Next time I plan to take it slowly!