When someone from another country that you've only briefly met once asks you to go camping in the outback of Australia for a month, just say yes. That's how I spent my summer avoiding the sweltering city heat of Los Angeles. In late July, a ticket was booked for me to go "Down Under," for a wild camping trip shooting photos with the creative collective, The Adventure Handbook.
![null](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0030/2661/6355/files/mollyoutback_hwl7_2x_2948825b-af46-4733-bb5d-fd2a40100e41.jpg?69247)
![null](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0030/2661/6355/files/mollyoutback_hwl_2x_3a1bfab6-2244-43cc-b9b7-60004c66ef05.jpg?69248)
![null](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0030/2661/6355/files/mollyoutback_hwl8_2x_015dc777-912c-45e5-b579-55800bc1e322.jpg?69249)
![null](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0030/2661/6355/files/mollyoutback_hwl11_2x_16e75b76-03fb-4be1-9bcb-db0299eed264.jpg?69250)
![null](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0030/2661/6355/files/mollyoutback_hwl3_2x_39138e00-8701-4454-acb8-b7b2b5dbb6a2.jpg?69251)
![null](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0030/2661/6355/files/mollyoutback_hwl4_2x_3e0f7649-1913-476e-84ad-5846a3b663a5.jpg?69252)
![null](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0030/2661/6355/files/mollyoutback_hwl10_2x_98b00e0b-a264-47f0-8970-9f5e00aaddca.jpg?69253)
![null](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0030/2661/6355/files/mollyoutback_hwl6_2x_1.jpg)
Two weeks later, I was in South Australia in the dead of winter (which is basically the same as the "winter" in L.A.), with 4 guys I didn't know, about to spend 17 days and nights traveling and camping throughout the center of the country. South Australia is more or less like Joshua Tree but dyed with a red hue and minus basically everything. Showers were nearly impossible to come by, we camped wherever we could manage, I saw probably 200 kangaroos, fell in love, washed my clothes in the river and cried looking at the most vivid view of the Milky Way I could have ever have imagined. Like I said, if anyone ever asks you to go camping in the outback of Australia, just say YES.
![null](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0030/2661/6355/files/mollyoutback_hwp_2x_561676ea-dcf2-4ebe-b981-874984e2f26c.jpg?69254)
![null](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0030/2661/6355/files/mollyoutback_hwp2_2x_d78ef630-9cfd-4d72-91e7-55aa909975ba.jpg?69255)
![null](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0030/2661/6355/files/mollyoutback_hwl2_2x_414f63db-f6ee-41f5-ac57-69601ad5ae00.jpg?69256)
![null](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0030/2661/6355/files/mollyoutback_hwl5_2x_674cda3f-5510-46de-aa3d-6fbaa1b4bbd5.jpg?69257)
![null](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0030/2661/6355/files/mollyoutback_fwl2_2x_f1dda8fe-54f1-4966-a8e1-35612d5bbf6f.jpg?69258)