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Friends for 20 years, the Melbourne bassist of Jet and Intrepid\u2019s senior designer got the band back together on a family trip to China \u2013 children in tow.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pat O\u2019Neill first clocked Mark Wilson at some point at a house party in Melbourne\u2019s southside. Memories are hazy exactly where this was but Pat recognised Mark as the bassist from Jet, whose single Are You Gonna Be My Girl had topped charts around the world only a few years earlier. It was 2005, a life stage Pat now refers to lovingly as their \u2018early-20s ratbag era\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pat was staying with a high-school friend of Mark\u2019s he’d met at Melbourne institution nightclub, Revolver Upstairs. Amid the music and drinking, the pair fell into conversation. Pat asked Mark about the tour he\u2019d just returned from and without missing a beat, conversation shifted to Aussie Rules football. Turned out, they both supported the Geelong Cats, and silently the roots of a new friendship formed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

They had also, they discovered, both lost their dads (Pat\u2019s in 2005 and Mark\u2019s a few years earlier in 1998) and their friendship deepened with the shared sense of loss. In 2015, Pat was in Mark\u2019s wedding party and in 2017, Mark returned the favour to be best man at Pat\u2019s as they morphed out of their ratbag era into something quieter. Today, they\u2019re husbands and dads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What happens when ratbags go through life\u2019s ups and downs together and then settle down? Naturally, roles\u202fchange,\u202frelationships shift. But to survive, a\u202ffriendship\u202fhas\u202fto\u202ffind new ways to thrive \u2013 something they discovered when an opportunity arose to go on an Intrepid family trip to China<\/a>, with their kids (Louis, aged six and Goldie, seven) now part of the entourage.\u202f<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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New kinds of kicks<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u2018We\u2019re\u202fboth into food, both into music, we like wine and cooking, too\u2026\u2019\u202fMark tells me when I catch him for a chat, fresh off a Jet show in Chile to a crowd of 100,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He and Pat still live close to each other in Melbourne and each now has two kids. They make an effort to bring their families<\/a> together as much as they can, but when the pair of dads found themselves with a school holiday in the calendar for their eldest kids, Pat, now a senior graphic designer with Intrepid, sparked the idea of hitting the road on a new kind of tour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018It\u202fwas my son’s first year of school,\u2019 says Pat,\u202fwho\u2019s\u202fworked for Intrepid for\u202f13\u202fyears.\u202f\u2018I thought\u202fover the school\u202fholidays, rather than try and find childcare for him, while my wife was working and my daughter was still going to kindergarten, I would\u202fpick an Intrepid\u202ftrip.\u202fSo,\u202fI floated the idea of China<\/a> to Mark.’<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Everyone goes to the same places with their children,\u2019 says Mark, who has toured more than 40 countries as a musician \u202f\u2013 and many more\u202funder his own steam. \u2018But\u202fI’d\u202fnever been to China, so the idea of going with your kid to a place that none of us had been before was pretty appealing.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that\u2019s how they found themselves, 20 years after they met in that house party, sitting in a Beijing restaurant, negotiating with a seven year old who didn\u2019t want to eat anything but rice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more: Intrepid’s new Premium Family trips<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dads on tour<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u2018It\u2019s obviously a very different dynamic travelling with young children,\u2019 Mark laughs about his daughter’s aversion to trying the food.\u202f\u2018Goldie\u202fdidn\u2019t\u202feat a lot.\u202fBut\u202fthen\u202fshe\u202fdoesn\u2019t\u202feat a lot at home either. She only ate the rice\u202fpart\u202fof her dinner tonight, and\u202fthat’s\u202fpretty much what\u202fshe existed on the whole time there.\u2019\u202f<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile,\u202fPat\u202fhad no worries on that front and\u202fwas keen to get his son involved in the food scene across China.\u202f\u2018Louis has always been a really good eater, so I enjoyed him wanting to try all the different foods,’ says Pat. \u2018The only thing he\u202fdidn’t<\/em>\u202feat was the roast goose in Hong Kong, because he thought it looked scary. Which was fair\u202fenough, because\u202fit was\u202fliterally the\u202fwhole goose head.\u2019\u202f\u202f<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But despite the\u202finitial\u202fcultural differences,\u202fthe\u202fmen embraced the\u202fshared experience of exploring a new place together,\u202fas they\u202fgradually\u202fassimilated\u202ftheir\u202fpast and present lives.\u202f\u2018When we had spare time we would explore, says Pat. \u2018In Xi\u2019an,\u202fwe went out to look at the street food and even managed to find a couple of pubs, where the kids were happy and we could all watch daily life unfold in this cool\u202fcity,\u2019 revealing that even in a new place, old rituals stayed strong.\u202f<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more: How to make your next family trip a hit<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bonding on the road in China\u202f<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Gradually, the men found their footing. Mark and Pat found the adults were able to relax and enjoy themselves while the\u202fgroup\u2019s combined\u202fkids\u202f\u2013\u202faged between\u202fsix\u202fand\u202f15\u202f\u2013\u202frevelled in their own independence. ‘There was a lot of distance covered\u202fon high-speed\u202ftrains, and the kids would all be sitting\u202ftogether\u202fand\u202fplaying\u202fwith each other.\u202fThey loved making new friends from different countries, including a German family whose youngest kid barely spoke any English before the trip but was conversational by the end.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Witnessing your kids stumble into those kinds of connections in a new place is exhilarating,\u202fbut this trip was unique in the way it\u202fdovetailed man-thrills with\u202ffamily-thrills.\u202f\u202f\u202f<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Yangshuo, there was a bike ride planned: \u2018They\u202fdidn’t\u202fhave bikes small enough for the little kids, so we got these (very pink) motorbikes with sidecars. Pat and I\u202frode around the\u202frice paddies\u202fof the\u202fYulong River with the kids in the sidecars,\u202fwhich was\u202fjust\u202famazing.\u2019\u202fFrom riding the world in tour vans to riding\u202fthrough China\u202fwith kids in sidecars, the men had\u202fcome\u202fa long way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Seeing the world through their eyes\u202f<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Mark says the opportunity to bond with his daughter was priceless: \u2018Getting away\u202fas just\u202fa dad-and-daughter duo was\u202freally cool,\u202fbecause\u202fwe’d\u202fjust had a son, and the focus had been on him a lot.\u202fIt\u202fwas sweet watching her experience it all. She had\u202fno\u202fpreconceived ideas, so you see the magic of travel through their eyes.\u202fI\u202fdidn’t\u202fget to leave Australia until I started making albums!\u2019.\u202f<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both men are keen to do it again\u202fwith their youngest children when they are old enough, with Mark insisting\u202fhe\u2019s\u202flearnt from this experience that\u202f\u2018travel is as important as school.\u2019\u202fBut it wasn’t only educational for the kids, the pair say. The trip also gave them\u202fthe\u202fchance to get to grips with their new\u202fidentities as fathers,\u202ftoo,\u202fnot just\u202fas\u202frock\u202f\u2018n\u2019\u202froll\u202fbuddies.\u202f\u202f<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Mark and I have been through life\u2019s highs and lows together, we\u202fhave shared experiences,’ considers Pat about their long friendship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now back home in Melbourne, what stays with Mark and Pat isn\u2019t any one stop on their adventure, but the feeling of moving through it together that resonates \u2013 two men adjusting to new rhythms; two dads watching their kids grow, out there in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pat and Mark travelled on Intrepid\u2019s China Family Holiday<\/a>. Intrepid\u2019s family trips are designed for people travelling with a child aged between 5 (or 10 for some trips) and 17.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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