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Dubbo zoo – where complacent wild birds become lion food.
Well it’s been a while. I think this whole travel thing is wearing me down—wearing us down, actually. Travelling with kids has taken a...

brittanyaus
Dec 21, 20233 min read
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Coonabarabran – The Warrumbungles at your doorstep and Australia’s stargazing capital.
Following our 7-week asthma and pox-inducing tenure in Denman we hit the road. Sensationalism you might say. Perhaps a little. In any...

brittanyaus
Nov 27, 20233 min read
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Denman and surrounds—Sheep in red socks, and trails fit for mountain goats.
Putting aside the grossness and parking the fact that the dust never did settle, quite literally, the house-sit in Denman did give us a...

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Nov 21, 20234 min read
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Our 7 week house-sit is done, and not a splash of milk to be seen.
We’ve wrapped up a 7-week house-sit in Denman, a small, quiet, country town about 250km north of Sydney, or 100kms north-east of...

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Nov 6, 20234 min read
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Ah, Cessnock—a city overflowing with potential.
Located 150km’s or so north of Sydney, Cessnock lies at the southern end of the Hunter Valley wine region, and as such, is a town with a...

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Oct 30, 20233 min read
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Wauchope and Port Macquarie.
Another short trip and, wanting to be cheap, of course, we stayed at the Wauchope showgrounds, using that as a base for a couple of...

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Oct 22, 20233 min read
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Mylestom—Muttonbird Island—Our first travelling casualty.
With Alicia being over 20 weeks pregnant, our plan for travelling down the New South Wales coast has been to make short trips, keeping...

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Oct 15, 20233 min read
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Leaving Queensland behind—first stop, Byron Bay.
We’ve now left Queensland behind us, and as much as we can’t wait to be back, we’re not likely to cross back over its borders for quite a...

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Oct 8, 20233 min read
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We birthed our baby in our caravan.
I’ve been playing catch up on our trip to date, and am still quite a few weeks behind, but it’s time to jump to the present to announce...

brittanyaus
Oct 4, 20233 min read
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Hitting the road with everything we own and being masters of judging a book by its cover.
After a casual start to the day we pulled out of Lawnton at 11am, making our way for Yarrabilba to collect the rest of our belongings...

brittanyaus
Sep 23, 20233 min read
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Our first nights in the new van, and an ultrasound of our newest family member.
Having spent our first few nights in the van, we’re now ever-so-slightly more experienced caravanners than we were 3 days ago and, if...

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Sep 17, 20234 min read
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Handover day—we’ve picked up our new home.
15 months after we first began to think about travelling Australia in a caravan, the day finally arrived, and after making the short trip...

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Sep 9, 20233 min read
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We’re onto the final stretch, and with that, here’s an anxiety-induced whinge.
Well, we’re onto what should be our final Airbnb stint. This one is located in the Brisbane suburb of Wilston, which was perfectly...

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Sep 3, 20234 min read
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House-sits
It’s been a strange feeling, being homeless and to be living in someone else’s house. We’re not homeless if we’re living in someone’s...

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Aug 26, 20234 min read
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Well, it’s goodbye to our home.
We’re done with garage sales and marketplace selling— we had been fortunate in being able to find someone who is happy to hold off on...

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Aug 19, 20233 min read
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New car—hopefully, not a risky choice.
No cryptic messages here, or surprises for that matter—we have been quite busy and as the title suggests we have found ourselves a new...

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Aug 12, 20234 min read
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Recapping where we’re at.
When you step back and think about it, a little stress and pressure probably makes life interesting, right? You could imagine that...

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Aug 5, 20234 min read
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When all is quiet, buy a new caravan.
We’re at a stage now where we have things to be really excited and nervous about, and yet, those things are quite a way down the track,...

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Jul 11, 20234 min read
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When home selling shifts to a buyer’s market.
The roller coaster continues. And it might even be fun it wasn’t for the truckload of stress and worry that has come with it. Stress is,...

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Jul 4, 20233 min read
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Searching for our next home.
We’ve been trolling the used market for a van that ticks as many boxes as possible—a search that’s made more difficult by the fact that...

brittanyaus
Jun 29, 20234 min read
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