As most people reading this would already know our year long odyssey around Oz has ended and we are firmly planted back home in Mackay sweltering through a very humid time up north and possibly all of us wishing we were still free to travel this remarkable country as we please. But alas we have been bought back to earth by the big stick of reality, and let me tell you, it hurts! Between living in our van and shed while our house was painted and then moving ba...

We arrived safely at our next stop Bombala just in time for lunch on another warm sunny day in the NSW south east corner. I say "safely" because it was my first time driving with the big girl in tow. It wasn't as bad as I thought, but will say it was a bit daunting. As we pulled into Cooma tom had taken us up a street and there was roadworks and a detour! It is a brain hurt, you are always concentrating and you have to be that much more aware of your surrou...

On the morning of pack up day it was rather cold and we had decided on an early mark as all campers had to be out of the camp grounds by lunch time because the whole Exhibition grounds were hired out for the Annual Canberra Folk Festival.This is said to be a fantastic event running for 5 days over the Easter break. It is a shame that we missed out on this festival but would be something we would like to come and see in the future.We were on the road by about 8:...

After enjoying the quiet days and reasonably nice, moderate south coast weather in Nelligen for a couple of days it was time to make our way to the ACT, Canberra in particular.Packing up and heading off I whispered a little prayer to the Nissan gods to be kind to our little silver rocket, as in our path lay the Clyde Mountains.Now we had been made aware of this very steep and winding range by none other than Sunrise sports reporter Mark Beretta.Being avid Sunri...

The drive from Sydney to Kiama was absolutely beautiful some of the best coastal scenery yet.We actually missed a fantastic photo opportunity at Bulli, by the time we had spotted the lookout it was to hard to pull the big girl in! The view was amazing, what I could see of it.We had arrived at Kendalls on the Beach Holiday Park, what a top spot.You could see the water glistening through the cabins just in front of us.Once we got the van set up we were straight o...