From April to June this year, I spent a most enjoyable outback four wheel drive expedition, exploring some remote and beautiful Australian territory.  Starting with the Flinders Ranges in South Australia, I travelled via the Oodnadatta Track past Lake Eyre to Coober Pedy, then headed due west along the Anne Beadell Track.  This heavily corrugated dirt track is one of the networks of tracks blazed by Len Beadell in the ’50s and ’60s.  It passes the EMU atom bomb test site and continues across South Australia to to Western Australia.  After a couple of days maintenance on my truck, I  drove the 2000 kilometre long Canning Stock Route, the longest stock route in the world, with one fueling opportunity at an indigenous settlement about half way along. Finishing that track at Halls Creek, I then followed a network of unnamed tracks south along the Western Australia/Northern Territory border for several hundred kilometres.  These tracks petered in and out with much of the driving through untracked desert and mulga.  I eventually popped out of the bush at Kiwirrkurra about 1,200 kilometres east of Port Hedland and 700 kilometres west of Alice Springs.  From there it was a bit of a dogleg east and south onto the Sandy Blight track down to the Great Central Highway (track), east to Ayres Rock and home.  All up about 15000 kilometres through the Great Victoria, Little Sandy, Great Sandy, Gibson and Tanami deserts, on mostly dirt and sand 4wd tracks over the 3 months.  Lots of camels, spinifex, and desert scrub.  Only minor repairs needed along the way as I’d fully prepped my truck for the adventure.   It was a great expedition and one I’m really pleased to have completed as much of Australia becomes locked up and inaccessible due to unnecessary regulation.