I saw a picture once, of a 4WD on one of the long, straight dusty back roads of Australia. The road was red and dusty and stretched out into an impossibly blue sky. You could imagine the heat radiating off that road, the flies annoying your every breath and the slight breeze that did nothing …
Did I tell you that Ben and I have stopped in Dubbo for a while? We’ve decided that we’ll stay here for a couple of months, find some work, some accomodation and buffer up the kitty a little bit. Speaking of work… we’ve just bought a drone! Ben’s learning to fly it, and with the …
In my last post about our budget blow out, I mentioned how we could have saved so much money if we’d gone free camping (or at least cheap camping) a lot more than we did. So why didn’t we free camp Australia sooner? Well, there are a few reasons, some of which are valid and …
‘How to Blow Your Budget on a Road Trip Around Australia’… now there’s a title I didn’t ever want to be writing. I really would rather write a post on ‘How to Spend the Millions Left to You as an Inheritance by a Long Lost Great Uncle’. But alas, my knowledge base is firmly in the …
We’ve sloooowed right down. Just one move this week, from Port Augusta to Adelaide. That was after we got our car back, of course. This blog post covers 25th September to 1st October, from Port Augusta to Adelaide, SA. The Car is Fixed! Man, were we ever happy when we got the call from the …
We were really enjoying Alice Springs and being able to stay in a cheap, powered campsite ($25 per night). There were lots of things that we were going to do in Alice Springs, like go out to Desert Park and the MacDonnell ranges. But as the weather app forecast a bit of a heat wave …
Escaping the heat is proving to be a little bit trickier than we had anticipated. Even though we drove for hours and hours (and hours), over hundreds and hundreds of kilometres, 1,501kms to be exact … it’s still so hot! This blog post covers 11th to 17th September, from Darwin to Alice Springs, NT. Darwin …
We’ve been on the road for nine weeks now and travelled from Port Macquarie NSW all the way up the east coast to Cairns, across the Savanah Way to Darwin, and then down the Stuart to Alice Springs. In all that time and over those thousands of kilometres, I would say that about 90% of …
We’re on the move again. This time we’re heading in a steady westward direction, oh wait… except first we need to go north back to Atherton… This blog post covers 28th August to 3rd September, from Ravenshoe to Normanton, QLD. We realised that we really needed to get to a SuperCheap Auto to pick up …