The way Dickie's face lights up whenever he smiles is magical

As an American I have been fortunate to meet Australians who have become my dear friends. Down to earth people with a good laugh to boot. What more could anyone want? GOD Bless Australia!

"I never miss a sunrise or a sunset". That's living life to the full.

Coming from an old long haul trucker in the United States of America I can tell you we would live for great places to stop like that. And the owner adds more color to the place and makes the stay nicer and it harder to leave.

I love my country, especially the people of the outback, they're real genuine 🌞🦘👣

Just Beautiful old school AUSSIES. I feel at home just hearing the love for their country in their voice. BEAUTY.

Canadian here. I watched just this one then subscribed and thumbied and so on. I'd have loved to visit Aus but not this lifetime, being almost 75. Maybe next time round I'll just be born there, save me a trip from the other side of the Pacific.

I was lucky to meet Dickie last week on my way from Alice up north, such a lovely guy 😊😊

Brought back some great memories. Blessed to have gone throughout the Outback. Great times. Great people. Thanks a lot. From Vancouver Island BC Canada.

Gotta love these old timers, great generation

I'm from northern California and I just watched 3-4 of these land line videos for the first time. I must say that I really enjoyed them. Getting to OZ has always been on my bucket list. Who knows? Maybe one day I'll make it.

My wife & I spent 7 years on the road pulling our caravan with our Toyota 4WD, around & around & up & down this great land and still didn't see everything. Just the right type of rehabilitation after having open heart surgery & having been spurred on by my doctor who said I should get out there and enjoy life. Pulled into so many of those roadhouses & still remember the friendly atmosphere. Nothing quite like touring the outback. I can no longer travel because of my health and really miss those times.

These people are what made the Australian outback so good to visit.

I lived in Kununurra WA and I traveled the Stuart Highway and went to all these road houses, The people there are great and just so easy going. Seriously, every City person should do an Outback tour of Australia, they will learn what a beautiful country Australia is.

It's not the life i would want, but it makes me happy to see people so fulfilled with what they are doing with theirs.

When I was a child in India, I read about the Australian outback in a National Geographic magazine in our school library. Since then, any time I see a video or an article about the Australian outback I somehow have to see/read it...and it still fills me with wonder and fascination....

These people are a part of what make's the Australia outback so beautiful.

What an asset to this country that lady and guy are. Salt of the earth. ❤️❤️👏👏

I lived in Kununurra back in the early 90's and went to all these road houses in my travels around the Outback. Just so brilliant the people, and the country was just so harsh but beautiful at the same time. All Aussies should do it and experience what the Outback has to offer. I now live in Suburbia and I still miss the Outback

Who else wants landline to start their own KZfaq channel so that we can just watch landline and not have to scroll forever on the ABC Channel

The REAL Australia👍🏼 Honest & direct. I’m a Victorian, but my sister & family lived in Alice Springs for over 30 years. My nephew still lives there. I loved visiting & our late father’s second home was The Alice. I’d head north just for one of those feeds!🤤

How many sunrises and sunsets do we miss? An appreciation of beauty. A sense of purpose. Meaning. A reason to get up in the morning. A sense of humour. Resilience. And big beautiful statues.

what wonderful people! Australia is definitely a special place!

That’s the secret “Never miss a sunrise or a sunset”

"Dickie" is a gem, as is the lady down the road. Top people... I'm moving there, NOW..! I've wanted to move to Auz, from the UK, since watching The Flying Doctor in the 1960's, and Chips Rafferty in The Overlanders (1946).

I just love the Australian people that I have met. Smart hard working honorable people.Beautyful woman and men tougher then leather all with a heart of gold.

Beautiful land, beautiful people. 💖

I live in Sydney and I could not be any unhappier. Alot of people here would not know about being a proper Aussie.

Came here in 85. Worked across Australia in the mining and minerals area. Mount Isa, Kalgoorlie, Weipa, Port Hedland, Olympic Dam, Argyle. Fantastic times. Real people, real sunrises, real life. It really is like that.

It never ceases to amaze me how different people's lives can be.

That push bike is 33 yrs. Old. Bought in 1988. The bike never let me down. As of june 2021 I still ride that bike everyday. The outback is a beautiful place.

A lifetime of service is the secret to life. The sunrises and sunsets are gifts from the divine.

Love them indegenious people they are the spirit of the land ♥️

I stopped there on my push bike coming from the top end heading to Sydney via the great ocean road. Sometimes I get tears in my eyes when I look at my push bike in my lounge room. At the end about all we have left are memories.

Gary at Dunmarra is an absolute legend of a bloke. Nothing he wont do for you. best roadhouse in Australia by far. Miss running up to Darwin each week but soon enough i'LL return, its a way of life

I'm extremely fortunate to have driven from Canberra to Perth, and from Uluru to Darwin, and also Uluru to Adelaide. I love Australia, and especially the big sky landscapes. I've overnighted in many roadhouses there. Great country, fun people. ( I'm a born and bred Kiwi, and live in southern South island, NZ, btw )

Amazing country with amazing people. So looking forward to visit

Wow…Love that. When I was a kid, we regularly ran Hedland to Perth, and later travelled Australia over the top and down the centre. Now I live outside Melbourne and have travelled ‘home’ to Perth eight times over the Nullarbor. Very special to do that. Something everybody should do is experience Australia by road outside of the cities. Fantastic. Can relate having grown up in these more remote regions of this great country..

I miss Australia and her inhabitants and their ways. Good memories.

Lucky people. Thank you for sharing your beautiful homeland.

This is what it makes outback beautiful! Real Aussie mate!🍻

Cold beer is all I think about when I see this landscape.

Wonderful Down to Earth People who represent an age that may one day disappear for ever. I for one truly hope that True Australians never let that happen. From Chris in Derbyshire, England

What a character.... it’s what makes this country great.

Proud of us Aussies.

What magnificent people.

Gregory looks really bloody good for his age!

Hard land and hard (but good) people! Respect from New Zealand!

Love this man. He is so cool.

I was born in the Alice and boy do I miss that beautiful country.

Can't beat that Aussie humour,,pass it down please,,, generation,to generation.......

hope his still there in a few years. seems like he would have plenty of good stories! can't wait to hit the road full time in this awesome country of ours 🇦🇺

Australia would not work without people like them total diamonds in the rough people like them will always have your back

As NZers , we have done several Outback trips including a 2 year wander all the way round, " the big lap". All have been different and the roadhouses and campgrounds are unique and overflowing with interesting characters. Small towns are great, big ones - no. Love the outback.

4:57 - Birds in background: 'Oi, fellas, some nice roadkill 'ere!'

And that's just the way it is! Genuine,caring, decent people!

"that my coffin over there" that man has his coffin sitting there in his shop, I hope he doent need it till 2045

That's true Australia to me. Best times of my life were working hard and visiting the local roadhouse for some beers.

I am a Californian, but lived in Australia 1970-1973. I once drove from Melbourne through the outback of NSW to Queensland. I will never forget that trip. The huge distances, very few small outposts to refuel and the country pubs.

This is exactly why I Love Australian so much . ❤

It's beautiful with 20% of the Australian population spread across remote and regional Australia coastal towns, semi rural, outback towns, remote communities, small bush towns, desserts, wild scrub big rolling plains, cattle stations the size of European nations. It is a smorgosboard of nationalities, rugged individuals with the world's oldest First Nations People over 1=2 million who speak over 340 different languages an incredibly robust nation within a nation. Australia is so vast it enjoys 3 different temperate zones, vast and wild all the way to the tropical Zones of the Top End. The world's largest reef marine Park and a truly remarkable country, enjoy it's awesome.

Love the Aussies !! Back in the 90s I was with a security crew on assignment in the Kalgoorlie area, and my sidekick and I stopped at a roadhouse in the outback. Had a good steak !

Loved watching this awesome video. What a real Aussie ledgend. Way it used to be when i was a kid in the 60's. Miss those times. Feel like I've known old fella for years. Cheers to old timer, hope you go past 100 mark mate. 👍🏻👌🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻.

I love you "Dicky" for your passion of your outback life and your humor 1945 - 2045. Please change the label to 1945 - 2065.

King & Queens of the Outback. Bless them all.

Special kinda people out there. True Aussie Spirit lives out there. City folk could learn a lot from the People of the Bush. Generally speaking real people are in the bush and out back area's. Unlike Canberra etc.

Big shout out to Old Lorrie at the innamincka roadhouse. He looks after us drivers that go bush. Cheers bud.

I went through this road last week. I loved everything there.

Aileron is a great spot to stop. It’s well off the road and you can have a decent sleep. Get up in the morning and walk up the hill to the sculpture and take in the view, then go down and have breakfast. Perfect! It’s true about Dunmarra as well, it’s a popular stop for truck drivers. I’m sure I know that bloke Prickles who was at Dunmarra. If it’s him he worked at the Warrego Mine near Tennant Creek back in the late ‘70s. It would be interesting to find out.

I've stayed there a number of times. Great place, great people.

Good to see a very different statue.. magnificent art work..👍🤟👏👌🏆👊🤛

Just Beautiful . Great country amazing people what more do you want out of life.

God Bless em , they are the salt of the earth and what Australia is all about.

Getting to few and city people don't know enough about the struggles of the bush . These are the modern pioneers and their words should hold true for most of the bush .

I love that old bastard Dickie, what a wonderful character.

Good on you cobber. Hope that there are more like you in the Outback .

Enjoying the simple things in life. 👍✌️

What a great story. Beautiful

great story abc, dicky, may you make it to 100, salt of the earth.

I love this places... every time I am in this lands I am bewitched..

Love this place I was only there last Sept2019.

I never miss a sunrise, best therapy you'll ever get, just you and dawn...and a few bird calls to stop you dreaming.

I stopped by that roadhouse on an epic day trip from Alice to wurrutunga and back. I just bought a coffee and dickie told me to "piss off" and didn't charge me for it. I felt so bad that after 12 hrs of hectic wet dirt roads and an endless highway I stopped in on the way back and spent 50$ wish I had 500$ to spend.

What a cool guy, I'd love to sit with a beer and listen to some of his stories.

It is when you meet such people you realise how impatient and materialistic you've become

Bloody great story, special people out there!

These sorts of people and life are not just found up north or other desert outback places. You also see them in rural Victoria and NSW where these old run down Roadhouses, general stores etc often double up performing a variety of unexpected functions. They play a very important role for the locals as well as all the long distance haulage trucks passing through. In one such place I lived in as a teen, we knew when certain big trucks would passing through the locality, with very tired, hungry, cold, thirsty drivers, often around 3am. So we made sure there were lights on to greet them (little Christmas lights, would you believe???). And there would be bacon and eggs, chops, steaks, sausages etc and a huge old dirty big black pot of hot tea ready for them and we just waited for the trucks to arrive. We were keen to see them because the brought news from further up the line we needed to know, being so isolated... But,although there are a few such places still left, they are dying out. Partly due to local councils passing laws etc they cannot afford to comply with, as they make very little money, as much tourists want to visit such run down old places surrounded by old junk machinenery,old BOMB cars, rusted out old trucks etc, with torn curtains and fly blown walls, fly strip full of dead flies hanging at the entrance etc. They are probably not the safest or most hygienic of places and it's probably necessary to make these places at least cleaner and safer. However, without forcing them to be removed because they look so old and run down and uniquely Australian. They serve an important factor action for a forgotten section of the community and are hurting nobody, apart from annoying the prejudiced new age types. I know of two such places in my general locality. One also offers "quality modern accommodation with all mod cons". Some musician friends want to stay there and entertain the rough outdoorsy type workers who stayed there or are there and invited me. But, after going past such places and having been forced in youth to live in them on occasion,I had to say a polite no, thanks... I'll pass. I know what they are like inside.... But it doesn't bother the patrons or those who work in such places. You need to be pretty adaptaptable, make do with whatever conditions you find there and be grateful, not whinge about everything not being to your liking and, above all, have a sense of humour and don't judge others trying to do the best they can in difficult circumstances and conditions. In such places you can find some interesting "exhibitions" eg of art work, inventions, ingenuity etc and hear more incredible (and sometimes also highly improbable) stories, hear obscure musical performers, poets and such creative types all the locals believe ought to be famous. In a sense, they are, even if nobody else has ever heard of them. The locals love them. They don't get paid but consider being among good people who buy them a drink or a meal etc is pretty good "free entertainment", for performers and patrons alike. No need to buy fancy latest style ultra cool fashions and pay a fortune to go to some Melbourne night club for entertainment and risk being arrested, raped bashed,murdered on the he mean city streets. They are not the most glamorous of ritzy glitzy social scenes to be seen in but these old run down joints out middle of nowhere play a very important social connection role for rural communities. It's not always possible for all to have friends in high places eg Melbourne or Sydney. But,sometimes, friends in low places can be more important to have. Especially if you run out of good, water etc out middle of nowhere and need help from one of these Roadhouses. They seem to cater for all emergencies and to anything. Rough country outdoors working men knew how to deliver a baby on the side of a road with just work tools as "surgical instruments" long before it became trendy for this era's males to be involved in the child birthing process and these men were not scared to do it, though sometimes they might argue about best way to go about the birthing, depending on whether the baby had decided to come head first or feet first,which might be a bit more dignified, but such births were often a bit riskier and needed an older more experienced man to take charge, like the road workers gang leader boss man who gave instructions to the mother in labour and to his men helping her birth. OK, luv,you keep pushing hard. You boys,on the count of three, all pull... Mind the head, though... It's my best mate's baby... He'll get here as fast as he can... On horseback... Despite these men not being related to the pregnant mother and doing such an intimate thing to help her, when her husband or father or brothers etc couldn't be there, because they often had to be away working hundreds of miles away, for weeks on end, these women depending on men for help with birthing were never sexually abused by them. They had to depend on men to help them because men outnumbered women in remote rural Australian places and there was no communications or easy access to medical help. Just the bush nurse who can versed hundreds of miles daily to visit new mothers and show them what to do. She did a good job but could only usually help after the birth, not during pregnancy or at the birth. Nobody bothered with monthly pregnancy check ups or even getting a pregnancy confirmation. The women figured you'd soon know it if you were. Morning sickness, rapidly increasing baby bulge etc. So who needs a doctor to tell them what they could tell for themselves, or ask an older mother who knew?

Great story , there is good people still out there folks doing their best for everyone , and a pub in the middle of nowhere is a welcome relief to a tired traveller up that direction 😅 , good on yah guys 😊

The Northern Territory and Crocodile Dundee is what I think of when I think of Australia ! The US once had a mystic like that , it’s gone with the lefties !

What FANTASTIC PEOPLE 👏

I visited Australia in 2015/16, but wasn't in that part. However, I ignored the cross country advice I got from a couple of people, and drove across to Perth anyway on the Eyre Highway and back. "There isn't anything out there", they would say. Nonsense, there's always something there, the roadhouses for instance. You can't really see a country if your 7,620 meters high in a plane.

not long enough, iv visited a number of roadhouses when driving through auss. had a great time,

WOW... just WOW ........ respect !

Gregory Dick is a man I'd like to sit down with , enjoy a drink , and just absorb what he has to say ....Hope you see 100 sir !

JUST AWESOME GOOD AUSTRALIA OUTBACK LUV IT ... BIG THUMBS UP

Reminds me of the way ranch country use to be in the Western US. Everyone was friendly and then city people showed up with their know it all attitude. Wish it was the way it use to be. Either way, great video. One day I’ll make it the Outback!

June 1988 Norforce meetup Point, for K Troop Tennant Creek. Weekend patrol and OP. And. Sunday Range shoot at Alice Springs rang.

"oh, give me a home, where the kangaroos roam, where the wombats and wallabies play, where always is heard, a loud cackling bird, and the weather is sunny all day"

I first stopped in at Aileron Roadhouse 10 years ago. I walked into the bar section and sat down to order a soft drink. Looking at the wonderful selection of Wiskey's, including Bushmills ( an Irish whiskey, not easy to find anywhere, let alone where it was). I made a comment to the barman. "Wow, we are in the middle of bum fart, (nowhere, for those not Australian), and that was a serious collection of spirits", i was impressed. "Whomever curated it must be a connoisseur ?!?". The reply that came was as filled with as much wit and warmth as the place is, he said.... "That person is my father, and we refer to him as an alcoholic" 😆😆. Mr Dick is one of those memorable outback's characters that you love to meet, usually en route to somewhere else. He had his coffin propped up at the end of the bar, a giant grounded wedgetailed eagle that had been hit by a truck many years before, some amazing sculptures above the roadhouse, a bar full of Namatjira paintings, good quality top shelf spirits,cold beer, and an anecdote and yarn for everyday of the week.. At the time he told me about fighting with the NT motor registry over his right to bear personalised car plates with his name on it 🤣. He thought by birthright, he had every right to use his surname, DICK. I do concur, but they didn't see it that way. 🤷🏼‍♀️😆 Honestly, I drove an extra 80 km to avoid his competition further North up the Highway. The most central roadhouse in Australia 👈 Don't go there. These people are the antithesis of everything Aileron, and make you feel, unwelcome and treated with contempt. If that's your Jam, then they are your people, otherwise time your fuel stop for Aileron if possible. It's not a Highway many people travel, but if you do, you should definitely stop in for a cool or warm drink, and a chat with Mr Dick, his sons or his wonderful staff.

As a Kiwi, this man is clearly a legend. Much respect