"You won't be able to take the baby on those trips of yours around Australia..."

[dalekboy]

A brief post for the many, many people who said we couldn't travel to remote places with Lex.

Post-Melbourne trip, my son, at 8 weeks, has seen more of the country than most of the people who offered me this advice, and we aren't home yet. Interestingly we have discovered travelling with him so far inland is no different than travelling with him from Canberra to Melbourne was.

10,000 years ago we all used to be nomads, yet somehow we managed.

And I have the Belwood!

A quick selection of pictures of places he's been, below the cut.

Comments

[stephiepenguin.livejournal.com]

Post-Melbourne trip, my son, at 8 weeks, has seen more of the country than most of the people who offered me this advice, and we aren't home yet.

those people should be less boring.

Love the picture of you and Lex on the sand.

[purrdence.livejournal.com]

That last one would make an awesome Christmas card photo if you're thinking of doing that this year...

[meljane.livejournal.com]

Great pictures :)

My parents when we were small took us around W.A and from what they told me they seem to manage ok mainly cos they were organised and I just wish they had of taken photos .

[mynxii.livejournal.com]

That's incredible - I think that everyone has to make work what they can - I love the picture of Saron by twilight with Lex.

I miss you all so much.

[stephbg.livejournal.com]

This is just wonderful.

[ariaflame.livejournal.com]

Glad the trip is going well for you.

Maybe one day I'll get to see a bit more of the country than capital cities & airports.

[purrdence.livejournal.com]

Come to think about it, travelling with a baby would be easier than when they are older - no 'are we there yet?' 'no' 'are we there yet?' 'no!', 'buy me this! buy me this!', 'this is so boooorrrrring!'

[king-espresso.livejournal.com]

Good on all three of you for that. I love Silverton, BTW. Keep on truckin' mate.

[kaths.livejournal.com]

Wonderful!

So how do you deal with the heat and sun? I'm getting a bit paranoid about that, with summer approaching and all the warnings we get about keeping the sun off young babies!

Travelling with babies is easy ..

[ozdragonlady.livejournal.com]

Its toddlers that get difficult ...
Either way, you just need to plan more carefully than you would for yourselves alone.

[drjon.livejournal.com]

"You won't be able to take the baby on those trips of yours around Australia..."

Who the hell told you that?

[robinpen.livejournal.com]

Lovely pics, my friend.

[sjkasabi.livejournal.com]

Lex is a lucky boy, lucky to have you two, and lucky to be seeing the world so young.

And that last picture is GORGEOUS.

Sorry I missed you last weekend - I ended up falling asleep at about the time I was planning to set out. It's been a bastard of a couple of weeks at work, with 14 hour days and other things that wreck weekend.

Otoh, I may be up in Canberra in a month or so...

[jasonfischer.livejournal.com]

Those photos are absolutely beautiful. What a lucky kid, to have parents like you! I hope when Junior Fisch arrives that we are even half as organised as you guys. Your blog is an inspiration to us parents-to-be :-)

[mireille21.livejournal.com]

So next question is, when are you coming to Adelaide? :)
Also, you'll have to be sure to give me plenty of tips for the travelling thing for when I'm ready to set out again.

[hespa.livejournal.com]

Good on ya!

I wish I could have been such a well-travelled baby at that.

...oh, wait. I was (Canada - England - Canada - Australia). Hrrm. Not sure what to make of that, except that maybe a well-travelled baby won't necessarily grow into a wanderlusting adult? Sigh.

I do think I was pretty good as a travelling pre-teen/teenager though (no "are we there yet?", I just learned to sit in the back and tell myself stories until we got somewhere).

[vegetus.livejournal.com]

Awesome pictures :) You are a very lucky man to have a beautiful wife and baby.

I don't get the "you can't travel with a baby comments", my parents travelled through Australia loads when my brothers and I were little. There are some great pictures of my brother aged 9 months being bathed in a bucket by a campfire somewhere in outback NT/WA and some of my earliest memories are making damper in the middle of nowhere.

[madradish.livejournal.com]

Lucky Lex and those photos are awesome!!

Silly people who think you can't travel with a baby! I had been to three different continents by age 5. :)