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. […]
“In order to write about life first you must live it.” Ernst Hemmingway The words jumped out at me as I turned the first page of my new book. Perhaps the timing was serendipitous given it was the first day back in the van at the beginning of our summer adventure. It had taken us […]
Dave: Dear Alice Grace, My darling daughter, as this special trip has drawn to an end, here are some thoughts to share with you about this incredible experience that you have been on with us as a baby. You will, it seems, grow up in strange times. Proof of that might be that a letter […]
Kim: ‘What do you mean, there’s no electricity?’ I asked. I was desperate for a hot shower. The girls and I had just arrived home after our flight from Broome. Even in the most remote areas on our trip our faithful generator had provided enough energy for me to take a hot shower each day. […]
Kim: “I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity.” Oliver Wendell Holmes “This is what I imagined the whole trip to be like,” Dave commented. It was 3pm. We were all crunching on salt and […]
Kim: We have begun the final stretch of our trip. In less than two weeks, the girls and I will be preparing to board our flight back to Sydney and Dave, the six or seven day drive home. To say that the trip has gone too quickly is an understatement. Dave and I have caught […]
Dave: Of the books I’ve enjoyed so far on this trip, including the audiobook marathon on the sixty-odd hour drive over to our start point, a clear frontrunner has emerged: Closer to the Ground by Dylan Tomine. This personal account, published by Patagonia Books, reveals on each page a new and beautiful aspect of a […]
Olivia: Western Wanders in Exmouth again. Surfing it up. wandring around from beaches to whale sharks and snorkelling around. Shells Dunes Fish what ever we Find. Family Stargazers in the night we Explore the star’s, planets, and more. We just can’t wait to Explore. one two three or four we have Adventures Any Where! […]
Kim: ‘Harder…faster…don’t stop!’ I encouraged Dave with great enthusiasm as he rhythmically… rocked Alice’s bassinet back and forth, desperately trying to get her to resettle so that this would not be just another 20 minute power-nap. ‘Waaaaaaaa! Baahhhh! Waaaaaaa’, our smallest team member howled in response. I stepped outside. ‘Girls,’ I began to raise my […]
Kim: “I hate this!” I hissed at Dave as we drove over yet another patch of particularly corrugated dirt road. We had about another forty-five kilometres to go on the road and the last vehicle we had passed gave us the courtesy of winding down his window to forewarn us just what a “#$%* of […]
