Category: Travel Journal
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A Central North Island Road Trip
As we spend some time in Michelle’s home country, we’ve been doing a few road trips. This one involved starting in Wellington, driving up to Taumarunui, across to Ōpōtiki, around the East Cape to Gisborne, down to Napier, and then back to Wellington. Driving north from Wellington, the first big-ish city we come across is…
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Still in Dubbo
We are WELL overdue for an update. So read on to find out why we’ve been absent from this blog for the last three months. Spoiler Alert: there’s nothing exciting, it’s just life (and laziness, maybe) got in the way. Still in Dubbo Yeah, ahhmm… when we arrived here in Dubbo we thought we’d just…
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Four of the Best in Dubbo NSW
We’ve made Dubbo our home-for-now as we save for a caravan and work on our online businesses. Situated just 5½ hours drive from Sydney, in the central west NSW, it’s the largest town in the Orana region and I love it, cos it’s got everything I need. (Oh, except a beach :-/) We’ve been here…
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Slowing Down
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…
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The Big Week … incl Big Car Trouble
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…
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The Great Escape – Running Away from Darwin
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…
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Undara Lava Tubes and Cobbold Gorge
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…
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Ravenshoe Railway Caravan Park
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…
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Getting Into The Groove
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…