Upon our return, a year and a bit later, back in Western Australia’s Kimberly region meant that the countdown of the Australian part of our trip had started and was now heading towards its completion. An oxymoron really but there…
Every long overland trip has what is considered to be its turning point and so did ours. With New South Wales out of limits because of Covid, Victoria under lockdown and the coast of Queensland completed, we had reached our…
This month’s diary takes us further south along the coast with primary destination Fraser Island, the largest sand island in the world and the only place where rainforest grows on sand. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ADuXyWc6Ws&t=27s Prior to that though, we had the Covid…
In our previous diary, it was all about the adrenaline pumping while undertaking Cape York. Well, after all that intense off road driving, it was time to regroup and so this diary will be all about chilling and our sophisticated…
Living full time on the road is not always as ideal and beautiful as it looks in the pictures you see in the social media. This lifestyle is not very different from a normal life and therefore it comes with…
While driving through the red center of Australia, we were certainly astonished with the beautiful locations that this part of the country has to offer, something that didn’t stop in Alice Springs but it continued and got even more impressive…
Life on the road would be boring without the unexpected happening all the time. This time it was floods! Big floods that hit NSW! After taking a river cruise on board one of the old paddle-steamer in Echuca, we retreated…
With our second lockdown in place in Australia, our trip to Tasmania had to be postponed. No sweat for us overlanders though, we moved our dates months ahead and replanned our route. Something that has become quite often these strange…
In our original plan, after departing Port Lincoln, was to head straight for Adelaide but in overlanding world, the original plan is never the plan that you follow and that is what makes overlanding so unique. This time, and after…
In our last post we stopped our story telling at building our Aussie HQ as well as celebrating Christmas and Rochelle’s birthday at the farm. As the above is not overlanding related, I won’t get into further details other than…
There was one special reason that we made our way back to Perth this time, and that was my application for a new visa. After taking into consideration the world’s current situation and the Covid-19 lockdowns around the globe, we…
Although we didn’t want to admit it, our Australian loop had been Covid-19 affected and although in theory still on the road, our route from here onwards was a way back in reality. With mixed emotions and still not sure…
In our last post, our adventure’s story telling stopped as we entered into Karratha, that for most travelers is significant to use for the bank, restock, repair stuff and get out of town before their wallet ignites. For us it…
It was ten days into traveling “the Loop”, when we found out that Voukefalas had not been registered and therefore not insured. Here in Australia this should be done through registering in the department of transportation. We were under the…
Being on a Covid-19 lockdown in “the farm” most definitely had its pro’s and con’s. Measures in different forms are taken all around the world in order to stop the pandemic. It’s the same case here in Australia as the…
