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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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”
Bay City Lola 