We’ve stopped. I think we’re stuck here. This is probably the only time I’ve ever been happy about being stuck at the railway station! This blog post covers 21st to 27th August, in Ravenshoe, QLD. This whole week has been spent at the Ravenshoe Railway Caravan Park. At just $10 per night for an unpowered …
Michelle
Update: Unfortunately this caravan is no longer being manufactured. 🙁 I’m constantly on the hunt for the best caravan or motorhome or camper trailer for us. Constantly. When a new sponsored post comes up on my facebook feed I think I’ve found the perfect one, or when a man stops to help us with our …
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 …
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 … …
We left New Zealand less than three weeks ago… and it’s kinda overwhelming thinking about how much we’ve learnt in three short, but jam-packed weeks. Our plan for this blog has always been for it to be helpful to others that want to do a similar type of trip. Well, we’ve got plenty of learnings …