A silo detour

Before Christmas, we had to stop in at our caravan manufacturer's factory and get a few things fixed on our van.  Unfortunately, there were some things that couldn't be done in this trip and so we had to make another time to take the van back to Melbourne so we could get some bigger things repaired - …

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Ski race weekend in Robinvale

Ok, so we were leaving Mildura, but really, we were still around having just headed down the road to Robinvale to camp by the river for the Robinvale Ski Race.  Corey's dad camps in a great spot every year and generally we head down to the river on Ski Race weekend. This year we had the …

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Surprise! We’re home… for a short visit anyway

The idea for making a quick dash home to surprise the in-laws had been fermenting for some time. Given that we still needed to pick up our tent and camping gear at some stage in preparation for our trip to Tasmania (or arrange for a friend to bring it to Melbourne, which was the original …

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A month of stats – first month in

Ok, so this is a few days late, but we've always found it fascinating when people post up the stats of their trips and so we've been keeping a few of our own... Every month we'll post up the stats of our trip. 29 August - 29 September 2016 Total kms – 5594km Amount of kms …

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Hightailing it to Longreach

After we left Gemtree, the mission was on to make it to the coast in time for my 20 year high school reunion on the 1st October. This meant some big days of travelling simply to make the miles, but we also wanted to make sure we saw a few of the things we wanted to …

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A gem of a place

When undertaking research and sussing out where other families had gone and recommended on their trips around the country, time and time again Gemtree came up in my research and so I had said to Corey we had to go there. Orginally planning 4 or 5 days there, unfortunately we were only able to stay …

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A town like Alice

Now, you can't write a blog post about Alice Springs and not use the title above now, can you?! Originally we’d planned to spend a couple of days in Alice, but of course our clutch issues and subsequent loss of time meant that we had to cut a few things. Unfortunately Alice was one of …

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Kings Canyon – or at least the bottom of it!

One of the things we reconciled in the research phase of this trip was that there were some things that we wouldn't be able to see and do with two small young humans and the Kings Canyon Rim Walk which everyone raves about ended up being one of those things. Unfortunately, the reality is that …

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Uluru awakenings

We posted quite a few pics of our short time spent at Uluru and Kata Tjuta on social media so we won’t rehash it all, but here are a few things that you may not have known about this iconic Aussie tourism destination and that we discovered as we explored the region. 1. It’s not …

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The Uluru that wasn’t…

We’d done a fair bit of research in preparation for this trip. And in particular we’d sussed out what there was to see at Uluru. But in all my reading and research, not once did I come across this little surprise: See it in the distance?? We saw the rock peaking over the horizon and …

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