Category: The big lap
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Three months on the road
December saw us enjoying more of the SA coastline before heading into Victoria and then our first trip to Tasmania in four years! Looking back a key part of December was making new, life-long friends and spending quality time with old friends. As usual – let’s look at the numbers for this month (and total…
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Two months on the road!
This month was all about the magic of the Flinders Ranges and the aqua blue shores of South Australia. Oh, and selfie frames! The SA Coast know how to do a selfie frame or two. Let’s look at the numbers for this month (trip total in brackets): Most heard phrases: Things we should have left…
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Four weeks on the road!
It’s hard to believe but we’ve been on the road for four weeks! The girls were keen to do a wrap up of our past four weeks so we thought why not look at the numbers: Things we should have left at home: Scooters and helmets (although we hope they redeem themselves in the southern…
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Potatoes and tomcats
Once the windscreen was fixed, we hit the road for Spud’s Roadhouse at Pimba. We don’t like leaving so late in the day, but we weren’t going far and it was a good trip. Spuds is another great low-cost camp – a donation box is there for the night ($5 is suggested), and hot showers…
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Rain, what a surprise.
We rolled on into Port Augusta to yet more rain – no surprises there! First stop was Whiteway Laundromat – it was a great little laundry complete with toilets, fast machines, helpful staff and a cracking loo sign that’s on the top of our signs list for the trip so far. I don’t know why…
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Cobar and arriving in The Hill
After breakfast in the camp kitchen, we packed up (in the rain, again) and hit the road for Cobar. The trip wasn’t the most pleasant. When it’s wet and windy towing the van has it’s challenges, but I think we were lucky to get out when we did – the river was high! We had…
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And…. we’re off!
After a wonderful long weekend in Lithgow, we finally hit the road in our long awaited, planned and replanned trip. After an emotional morning (goodbyes are hard even when it’s been coming forever!) we hit the road – first “official” stop: Dubbo. After a quick stop in Bathurst to grab some repair supplies (because it…
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The great preparation
I am sure other travelling families can relate, but we can’t begin a blog series about the great Australian Dream – the big lap – without at least addressing what happens beforehand: the great preparation. Hooley dooly it doesn’t matter how mentally prepared you are for the task, you really can’t imagine how much work…
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