Father, son travel coast to coast across Australia
It was about this time last year when my father's offhanded comment during a phone call really got me thinking. "You know," he said, "April-May is the perfect time to do this trip." He was talking about the same trip we'd discussed many times before -- a desert highway journey across Australia's red center, traveling west from the East Coast city of Brisbane. Distance wise, it would be like driving from New York to San Francisco.
• Photos: Australia Outback