byron bay – Bay City Lola

Tarting Terry

[Ed’s note: I am recapping the journey pre the waylay, back to the first days of my escape from Melbourne’s corona virus lockdown in July 2020 arriving in Byron Bay, buying Terry the VW Transporter (a small stealth campervan) and my attempted conversion into a vanlifer.] After my vigorous, impulsive and excited gender reassignment effortsContinueContinue reading “Tarting Terry”

Pre-Op Terry

I wake on my first day of Vanlife in Terry the Transporter in the post-hippy Vanland that is Byron Bay, pre-dawn per usual, snug, safe, and surprising comfortable in my baby bus. Underestimating the dimensions of my new home with a decent headwhack (novice van mistake no. 2), the jwoojsh-jwoojsh open and close of theContinueContinue reading “Pre-Op Terry”

The Great Escape

There was no time. Borders were rapidly shuttered to pandemic-ravaged Melbournians when I caught the last quarantine-free flight to Sydney and onward to Ballina, headed further north on the first leg of my epic adventure, to Byron Bay at the heart of Van Land to buy a campervan. Shedding decades of the same-sameness of everyContinueContinue reading “The Great Escape”