The drive back to my temporary new home in Airlie Beach, from a little suburb outside Brisbane, Moorooka, where the lovely Lola had been parked up for 6 weeks for my travel to Melbourne, was 1,200kms of heavy, heavy rain. The Bruce so overwhelmed with rain on Tuesday, near zero visibility, aqua-planning across the roadContinueContinue reading “A Tropical Home”
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Lessons on the Road
I have travelled thousands of miles, I have lived through my first wet season and I have adapted my vernacular to match the local tongue (pro tip ignore the vowels). I have become proficient in weather reading (maps not so much), coolant tank processes, deep sea fishing, cable installation, tent erection, cabinet making, frog shitContinueContinue reading “Lessons on the Road”
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”
Bay City Lola 