Sometimes we forget that this country could quite easily have been claimed by another nation and perhaps it was a quirk of fate that the English desperate for land and riches chose to stake a claim. We know that of … Continue reading Saw your light on, thought we’d drop in
Australia is a land of Greats and maybe we overdo the word a little but with The Great Barrier Reef being approximately one third the length of the country and about the size of Italy, then great it is. The … Continue reading A Land of Greats and Wows!
A long time ago I got into a habit of naming our ‘long’ trips and somehow, they took on a musical theme. First there was “It’s a long way to the top” (AC/DC or Acca Dacca to most Aussies) on … Continue reading Naming trips? It’s a song
May or is it June? 2018, Western Queensland After nearly three weeks inland we seem to be noticing the things that we should get when we get to the coast. We’ll get the new latch for the door when we … Continue reading The land of plenty
Our mate Crafty Colleen really takes the cake, she invited us to share a delicious trout that she not only cooked but she’d caught herself in Lake Eucumbene. Continue reading And while we’re on the subject of caravan entertaining
Caravanning is the perfect way of entertaining. You don’t have to clean the house to the point of gleaming, you don’t have to sweat over the outcome of a new recipe that probably won’t look anything like it did in … Continue reading Caravan Entertaining
Some of us are nesters and others are born to roam. We like to look over that next hill, just to see what is there. Sometimes it’s more of the same. Sometimes it’s red dirt and mulga to the horizon but other times …well there’s a vista to make your heart swell. Continue reading Travel – It should be classed as an addiction
A summary of our Up the Guts and Follow the Sun adventures (with apologies to William Shakespeare). Overall Summary for our miniscule part of the Up the Guts trip: 3 days and 3 nights 792kms, Fuel cost $271.68 Accommodation $10.00*, or $3.33 per night (*RACV Total Care paid for our accommodation after the car broke down while we waited for it to be assessed, provided a car for our return journey and one nights accommodation on the way home). Overall Summary for our Follow the Sun trip: 65 days and 64 nights. 8220kms, Fuel cost $1586. That works out at … Continue reading Our Winter of Discount Tents
Day 65, 16/9/2019 Monday, Merton to Home, rain 7- Oops, I forgot to look It rained most of the night. We wake to puddles all around us. It’ll be nice to get home to our other life, but we lie in bed listening to the rain and wonder which one is our normal life. The usually brown hills are a bright emerald green. We fuel up with coffee in Yea and thread our way home through the lush Yarra Valley and that folks, is the end of our winter sojourn. Summary 168kms and now to unpack and succumb to a … Continue reading Follow the Sun – Merton to Home
Day 64, 15/9/2019 Sunday Jugiong to Merton, icy to cloudy then wet -1.6 to 18 3 months since we set off on our fateful trip to Darwin and what a crazy 3 months it’s been. We wake at 5:30 it’s … Continue reading Follow the Sun – Jugiong to Merton
itchingforhitching 