Wrap up and stats

What a fantastic experience and what a country we live in, we saw the inland at it's best, travelled 11,500km's in 4 weeks and visited 24 pubs along the way.  In our travels we met some great characters and had a laugh on a number of occasions and more importantly we still mates after 4 weeks on the road and we and the truck made it back in one piece (Matt you done your doe on the truck needing to be recovered).

The trip was originally based on outback pubs and although we visited 11 of the those listed in the book, we went to a number of great pubs that were not all in the book.  After each pub we rated the service, ambiences, service, food and beer.  While I have a table of scores to share in person and the reason why, I won't list them here.  However our top eight were (in no order) Toompine, Noccundra, Nindigully, Blue Heeler, Wellshot, William Creek, Mungerannie and Muckadilla.  All fit the image inside and out of an outback aussie pub in our view.

We achieved more than a pub crawl, we saw some great country in very good condition.  Found some rocks and climbed and explored canyons and country.  Saw THE rock and had the opportunity to camp on the cooper with water and see Lake Eyre full.  We may never see the inland country like this again in our lifetime.

Special thanks goes to our wives for allowing us to go (lol) and a special thanks goes to our consultant on solar energy Matt.