
How a pair of disobedient missionaries invented Australia's most iconic road trip
From Conversations
Published 11/25/2025

From Conversations
Published 11/25/2025
Tens of thousands of 'van lifers' and 'grey nomads' drive around Australia each year. But the iconic road trip has a surprising origin story involving a pair of missionaries, a retired butcher and a gun-slinging mother-daughter duo.David Riley is a pastor and father who was on a lap around…