We’ve been officially on the road for a full five weeks now, so I thought it about time I give you an update on the money side of things. I’m hoping that this post is particularly helpful to those of you who are wanting to, or planning to, do a road trip around Australia of …
This was originally going to be a video, but for a whole buncha reasons it’s ended up being a blog post instead. One of those reasons is actually what this blog post is all about…. ie. technical difficulties. But the purpose of this post is, firstly, to explain why we’re so far behind schedule, and …
The trek north continues and I think we’re finally getting into the groove of things. Now that we’re in far north Queensland, we’re where we wanted to be at about this time. As in, we’re as far north as we wanted to be for the coldest months of winter. So there’s no internal/subconscious push to …
We’ve spent the whole week in Townsville. And I know I should tell you all about the magnificent tourist attractions. But I can’t. All I can tell you about is… well… the lookouts. This blog post covers 7th to 13th August, in Townsville QLD. Townsville Lookouts Townsville does good lookouts. I mean, they’re high up, …
In this previous post: Our Ideal Set-Up, I waxed lyrical about our ideal set-up being a 4WD towing a camper trailer, along with all the additional bits and pieces that we believed would make life more comfortable for us. Well, here we are one month into our trip and some may wonder if this is …
Things are heating up around here… literally. For the first time tonight we needed to keep some of the tent flaps open so that we could get some breeze flowing through the tent. It would be too easy to start whinging about hot it is, but I still haven’t got the cold chill of a …
Gladstone is hardly a tourist mecca, I’m not sure it’s even much of a passing through town either as it’s off the main highway. But you know what, it’s been perfect for us. After the campsite from hell, it was a joy to turn up to Gladstone and find this gem of a campground … …