Our Bucket List Travels

Hello Fam & Friends, One bit of excitement I forgot to mention at Kalgoolie, whilst in the supermarket, I experienced an earthquake.  Everything jumped on the shelves and customers all stood still for a moment trying to decide if it was a blast at the mine or not….but No, a 3.4 on the scale earthquake...so that was a first. Myth #3— Victorian roads are good—compared to WA our roads are appalling!  What more can I say, even their dirt roads a better than Chapel Hill Road out to the farm. Leaving Leinster, May 9, we headed west towards Sandstone and FC the night at Dennys Lookout.  A beautiful spot, had a campfire and watched the sun set.  We never seem to grow tired of the colours in this country.  Although the red dust penetrates just about everything, the Respa dust pressuriser that Noel installed into the van has worked perfectly and we have not had to seal up any vents, although I do cover the larger one in the door, more for keeping the cold out at...

Hello Fam & Friends, to date, car and van running very smoothly and so is our marriage. The speedo reads 6040km since leaving Mansfield and we are now into our 6 th week and feel like time of day and day are slowly becoming less relevant. We have really started to get into the ‘freecamping’ (FC) since I last wrote….as long as we can get water, we can FC just about any where. Myth #2 – the Nullabour is boring – we don’t think so!!   People must be driving with their eyes closed or at night.   We have found crossing The Nullabour an amazing experience and another item ticked off from my list of adventures.   So many trucks crossing our nation 24/7, keeping our economy ticking over.   After we left Cocklebiddy, which holds the record for the worst coffee in the world, we travelled through Caiguna and Balladonia (roadhouses).   These roadhouses were built in the early 1960’s by the Federal Govt for the Commonweatth Games in Perth 1962, providing travel stop...

Dear Fam & Friends, here goes my first attempt at 'blogging'.  I hope this is the best way to let you know of our travels - you can jump in and out whenever you have a spare minute for updates. My first confession is that I was secretly worried I would be a bit bored in stretches and not have a lot to do - myth No.1 dispelled!  We have been on the road for 3 weeks now and today have made the conscious effort to sit for the afternoon and bring you up to date, and a lot has happened in this time.  Have your map of South and Western Australia out ready if you so choose! Noel is the main driver and I the navigator/trip planner.  To quote Noel "All places are new and interesting, so I'm happy to go anywhere"; that makes for easy planning.  The van, an 18' New Age Manta Ray is well kitted out with most things we think we will need/want to make our travel comfortable and practical, I suppose not a cheap exercise but after a few weeks on the road, well worth every...