(This title is a homage to the frustratingly catchy John Williamson song from our childhood years.) Despite border restrictions, our options for the school holidays felt limitless. We had found a clear week off work. Our beloved caravan, which had been sitting unoccupied for months, was calling us forth on another adventure. Alice is […]
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Moving North
The one thing that all of our adventures seem to have in common is that, in the midst of them, decisions have had to be made. Some have been less consequential than others but all of them have resulted in an outcome that had an alternative been chosen we certainly wouldn’t be who or where […]
Put on Your brave
Put on Your Brave: Part One “You can do it”, “Put your brave on Mummy,” “Just think you can”, Olivia and Mia coaxed me gently. I was frozen with fear. Stopped in my tracks, knees wobbling and unable to take another step. For as long as I could remember I had been petrified of heights. […]
Confirming our travel style
The sound was grating – like the scratching of nails on a blackboard. It was the hissing of air being let out of tyres of the armada of 4WD’s packed around us. Then there was the intermittent melody of the girls whining, “M-uuuuuu-mmmm. Alice’s newly found mobility climbing all over me was not helping my […]
The Beginning: Smuggling Kombucha Across the Nullarbor
Kim: “What do you mean, there was an issue with my Kombucha at the South Australian border?” I asked Dave worriedly. He left more than forty-eight hours ago with the van in tow and I knew he would soon be deep in the bowels of the Nullarbor, losing phone signal rapidly. “I mean, Kim, drinks […]
