“Travel is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familliar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it”
Cesare Pavese

Recent Blog Posts

Return to life on the road

Welcome…come join us on our adventures! 2019, and we are FINALLY heading back to our life of travel and adventure. Much the same as our 2016 wanderings, we’re leaving with no real plan or time-frame…only a general direction. I just want to get out…

Finding my way back to me

Armed with hand soap and sanitiser, this week we packed up the van and have tentatively returned to life on the road. Not sure how long it will last, but we’ll know when we know I guess. 🤷‍♀️ There’s always an amount of trepidation…

Unexpectedly Homeschooling?

Hi to all the parents who now, unexpectedly and suddenly, have found yourselves responsible for facilitating the education of your child/children. As many of you may know I’m a single Mum who has been homeschooling my 9 year old son Miles for 4 years…

Saying yes = adventures

We had to make an unplanned dash for home from our travels a few weeks ago. One of my adult boys needed me back home and of course family is number 1, so travel is on hold for now….but that doesn’t mean adventures have…

looking back on our week of environmental activism

It’s been a long time in the writing this one… Earlier this year when I first heard that the Bob Brown Foundation was organising a Stop Adani convoy travelling from Hobart up to the Gallilee area and back to Canberra, I thought “I HAVE…

Susan Island Expedition

Late 2018 Miles and I had the opportunity to be citizen scientists, where we got to join a group of ecologists, bird and nature enthusiasts/nerds (ie. some very, very awesome people), to help with the final two days of a week long fauna study…