Do you remember trips from when you were a child and a teenager.

[Brumbypt]

Quite often we hear, ohh your kids will learn more on the trip than at school and they will remember the trip al their lives?

Do you remember trips from when you were a child and a teenager? How much of it do you remember and where did you go?
What did you learn on those trips?




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[scarps]

Camping holiday at Port Stephens for about 10years.
Swimming, fishing, holiday friends, freedom...
Oh, and meeting teenage girls. Remembering I was also a teenager:-)

[Wezza]

Chain of Lagoons, east coast Tassie, and Waterhouse Point, North East Tas. 

Used to leave home Christmas morning on daybreak for a number of years and camp for 3 weeks, tent only, no power, no proper toilets, no showers, no fridges, Eskis were styrofoam vege boxes with block dry ice........Learnt how to fish, snorkel, catch abalone, spearfish.

[lucky1]

Lived in FNQ as a kid and spent much of our time camping all over the cape. When I was 10 mum and dad went around Oz in six weeks in a 2.4 litre hilux  . Do I remember - yes as it is why I now have a camper trailer and take my kids on trips as often as possible.

[D4D]

Yup, many Loch Sport trips where you had to pump your own shower water. Wilsons Prom in a unit, Halls Gap in an on-site caravan.

[crackacoldie]

Across the nulabor toWA when I was four, remember learning about mining and buying gold, going to rottnest and mum being crook on the boat, also remember dad parking the car inside the big trees around Pemberton. 

Dirt across the paddock back then did the trip in the old charger 176 with caravan in tow.

[edz]

After the parents went seperate ways in the mid sixties , the old man took us kids that were still at home  [ four of us, me just 3 yro ] on a working holiday across a fair chunk of Australia.
 All these years later, I could tell the old man [ He's past away now ] where we had been and done, even in the earliest times of our travels.. He always said there is no way you could remember those early times as he reckoned I was to young to.. These recollections bought him a lot of joy in his final months of life .
But for me its just like a film or collection of photo's that replays those fantastic times growing up free camping /  travelling Australia with my dad, two brothers and sister ...
A little 13 ft duck egg green painted bondwood caravan towed by a sky blue Zepher 4 loaded with five of us and our worldly possesions was our home away from home for years.

[JCAT]

First trip I remember, I was 6 y/old and we went to Berri. I recall learning to swim, thought I was going to drown and fishing with my Grandfather.

My daughter was 3 (now 14) when we went around Aus in 03. She still recalls heaps from that trip, even things that jog our memory.

All our photos and video seem to help her recall other memories as well.



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[Sun Boy]

Hi All,

We spent 4 years on Bougainville in PNG. Lived in Kieta and used to love visiting the famous Arova Island Resort off Arawa. Sad to see the place has changed so much with all the unrest over the years. This used to be such a relaxed and peaceful place. Many happy memories 

 Tenkyu tru and lukim you

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[rags]

Over the last 20 years I have been building and renovating our house, that is now complete. During this time we have travelled all over the place with the kids  that  in that time i could have been finishing the house. People would often say that maybe we spend too much time travelling and not enough time on the house. My standard response is always the same, that as a kid way back when ,that I could not tell you what colour the carpet was in my parents home or what colour my bedroom was there BUT i can always tell you about the family holidays I went on as a kid. So I think just get out there with your kids and enjoy our great country because before you know it the kids have upped and gone. Thankfully they now have there own travel bug.

[Bird]

Yep, gold panning around Solfala, Hill End, fossicking around Oberon, etc etc

The olds had a poptop Kombi, was perfect...

[Barry G]

 Dad had a couple of WW2 army mates who were caretakers on rural properties.
One at a little place called Joel South, east of Stawell, and the other on a dairy property right on the river at Swan Hill.  Loved going out in the tiniest to check 'Uncle' Jim's cray pots, and fishing for Redfin. Amazing how us 4 kids were so good at fishing, we would catch heaps and dad and Jim virtually nothing.
'Uncle' Roy taught us rabbit trapping at Stawell and we spent hours in the shearing shed, etc.
I headed up that way for the first time in 20 years a couple of years back. While much has changed ( bitumen roads, etc)    I could pick the outbuildings and what was left of the old farm house as soon as they appeared on the horizon.  The tiny old house, the verandah seemed HUGE to a 10 year old,  is barely a frame now, but the track from the road, and the MASSIVE old gum near the house gate, are unchanged.

[muzza01]

Growing up in FNQ, traveling up the Cape, learnt how to fish, catch crabs, dive for Crays, shoot pigs, drive 4x4s,  cook bush tucker and smile at crocodiles. Those were the days.

[AlanB]

Travelling to Kalbarri with the Grand Parents when I was 5-6 and also going to Dunsborough every Christmas when there was only a deli and a bakery and 2 caravan parks. Oh the memories 

[Paul (SA)]

Wow - sure do. I recall sitting on Dad's lap when driving around NT and 'steering' - just had to be careful not to stub your toe on his double barrel shotgun when climbing over from the back. Also remember curling up in the foot wells and sleeping overnight on long trips between Katherine and Brisbane.

Memories as a kid inspire me to travel today.....

[crackacoldie]

I recall sitting on Dad's lap when driving

That reminds me of doing just that driving up the corona in the valiant!

Good thing we had a 2wd then, wouldn't want to take ax Xtrail places like that, only a real 4wd!

[NewieCamper]

Heaps of memories, and great ones too. All over the place, got no idea why people want to go to the same holiday spot year after year and never go anywhere different.

Across the nullabor with dad, while mum and the baby flew to Adelaide, great adventure. On the way back three kids took turns on the foam cushion on the centre console (with seatbelt bolted in) in front of the baby bassinet that was in the back seat - no capsules like today, and the company car wasn't allowed to be a six seater.

Then another trip a few years later towing dad's boat across with a top speed of about 80. Mum and dad taking turns at the wheel into the night while the back of the van had the seat folded flat and sleeping bags spread for the four kids. They'd eventually pull up and hop into the boat to sleep. Then one day looking out the window to see the wheel of the trailer bounding off into the scrub then backtracking to nullabor station to try and switch the tyre off the rim while their compressor and tyre machine was broken down. Long night with no result, leading to an extremely slow and cautious trip to the next town until Repairs could take place.

I want my kids to get some memories like that too, well maybe not quite like the ones above.

[Socks]

We did 4 weeks from Sydney to cairns and back again one year and the other we did Sydney to Melbourne and Adelaide then back again. I don't remember what trip we did first. I know it was when I was in year 3&4. We spent much of the time chatting with people that my dad met thru the CB. Don't remember much about the trips themselves although I have a postcard collection from each trip. Seems every place we stopped I bought a postcard to add to the collection


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[gclan]

Like most have already said, my parents also travelled a lot with my sister and I when we were kids, and I thank them all the time for instilling in me this great love of travelling and exploring.

When I was 9 or 10, we were the first tour group allowed back into PNG and had to have an armed escort. An absolutely amazing Country and people.

We travelled to Malaysia and Singapore, and I grew up on an island in the Gulf of Carpentaria where we needed a 4wd to get to all of our camping and swimming spots out of town, and I think Dad found every interesting and not so interesting dead end track on the island (he'd never go the same way home that we came). They even let us swim in the ocean

We travelled down through the Centre two weeks after Azaria Chamberlain was taken by the 'dingo' and wondered why the bus driver was sleeping up on top of the bus while we were down in tents? That trip to Uluru(or Ayers Rock as it was then), Kings Canyon, Katherine Gorge, Coober Pedy etc... is one I still love re-telling my kids over and over. They're slowly ticking these places off their lists too, and I'm making new memories with my kids.

When we moved back to civilisation, we went camping with many other families every chance we got, and it made for a fantastic childhood.

I remember many details from travels when I was younger than 8, but they're mainly triggered by photos.

Reminiscing with Mum and Dad now, I find that I remember things that even they'd forgotten, and there's no better feeling than reliving those shared memories.

Apart from love, I don't think there is a greater gift a parent can give their child than travel.


Karen

[gclan]

Are you deciding whether or not to travel with kids Peter?

[Bird]

Wow - sure do. I recall sitting on Dad's lap when driving around NT and 'steering'

yep, did the same with my kids, my old man used to let me drive home from school regularly, and I let Cammo drive the GU around the bush, and around the dunes at Robe.. 
So many things modern kids miss out on...

[DaveCQ]

Do i remember? Yep, without doubt some of the best times of my childhood. My children now (12 and 9) recall their earliest trips and still laugh about things that happenened on them. Some of the memories are from when they were a very early age and it makes you wonder how they can remember, considering they were so young.

My advice only only. Anyone with kids, get them out of the house and into the bush. It can only bring you closer as a family.

Cheers.

[Brumbypt]

Are you deciding whether or not to travel with kids Peter?

Check out my avatar, i took the family around aust in 2002 and 2003 they were only 2 n 3.

22 months, stopped for 12 months in darwin and knx.


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[jetcrew]

Sure do

I grew up till 8 in darwin, Dad was fly in fly out and when he got home the tinny got loaded up and off we would go ..caught my first barra off the middle sand bar in buffalo creek, had many a trip to shady camp and various other spots from 2-8. if dad went without me I would cry for days.

Then we moved to Brisbane Dad had to work 2 jobs, and the fun stopped...the lesson I learnt out of all that, is to work out what you value in life, and you can't buy time no matter how much money you have.

some 20 years later after my parents divorced dad and I would do 6 weeks barra fishing up north each year together we did that for a few years and we still go away on trips off gladstone and stuff for a weeks camping , taking him away next month for a crabbing trip with a heap of other blokes and Dads.

I great set of memories for me, and why I do the same for my boys. 

Dad was also there when my son caught his first barra last year the 3 of us went away for a week together. Great memories.

This thread makes me want to go fishing.

Jet

[DannyG]

Its a good question and one I have asked myself in the past.

I remember doing things with my dad as kid so I guess the answer is yes.

My kids have been camping so many times and been on so many holidays during their childhood they are sick of it LOL Yes I am sure they will remember but it will be like their childhood was one big camping trip