Ramblings of an over-stressed lawyer who packed it all in…bought a camper trailer…and hit the road (and wineries…many wineries)
6 months on, and off, the road – and we are only part of the way through our figure 8 “lap” of Australia. Seems like one year definitely won’t be enough to get around this massive country. And we’re just starting to feel like we’re sort of getting the hang of it. I love reading […]
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I was all for selling the house, packing it all in and hitting the road. Nay to bricks and mortar and being shackled to the Sydney property market. Yay to the freedom of having a shelter on wheels that becomes home wherever we park it. Taking anti-establishment quite literally. But the thing about walls, and […]
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Birthdays are a good time to take stock of things. And to drink champagne. This week, out in the outback where there is not much to do other than 4WD along river beds, swim in waterholes, take long bush walks and drink in outback pubs (as in, some of my favourite things to do) – […]
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When we set out on this trip, we had the first night planned – and not much more. We meandered through NSW and Victoria, and slowed down a bit in SA while we had a decent look around. And then instead of heading around the coast to WA, we decided to take a sharp right […]
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It has taken me a while to write this one because we have been in some pretty harsh outback conditions for the last week or so. And the 46 degree heat and locust swarms have made me a bit lazy and also nearly fried the laptop. Enough excuses…on with the story. Mission to prevent spoilt, […]
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I must have displeased the gods last week with my smug self righteousness about all the sleep I was getting. Because this week they tried to blow us off a cliff in the middle of the night. Apart from that, a pretty uneventful week of beaches, oysters, prosecco, crab fishing, sand dunes, 4WDing. Same old, […]
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Six weeks in and I have just about caught up on a decade worth of sleep and discovered even more of an appreciation for wine. Turns out I wasn’t a lawyer with a drinking problem – I was a wine fan with a lawyer problem. Oh, and we saw dolphins. Up close. (And just as […]
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It has been a week of creature comforts, visiting family, a lawyer mum flashback, and looking forward to some roughing it ahead. We have been to Lancefield (near Hanging Rock – cue haunting pan pipes), Ballarat, Daylesford, the Grampians, Warrnambool – and ended up in gaol in South Australia (as a birthday treat for the […]
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Project Simplify* has been progressing well, down in the wild weather at Wilsons Promontory (with many sunset pics on instagram). We are just a twelve hour drive from Sydney but already are worlds away from our previous existence. Wilsons Promontory is the southern most point of mainland Australia, and very much on the tourist track […]
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The King Valley turned out to be a bit of a fizzer wine wise (and not like a nice spritzy prosecco). So we did things the hubby’s way. There is zero internet in the King Valley, and we had done zero advance research ahead of turning up on a Wednesday afternoon. Google-less, we drove aimlessly through […]
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