Throughout our travels we've been very fortunate that nothing significant has gone wrong (knock on wood). So there was no reason to think that anything would go wrong leaving NZ to Australia.Foolishly, we had not done any research on entering Australia. We assumed it would be like entering NZ; just another modern Commonwealth nation that many Canadians travel to. Of course we needed to obtain a visa! This good news came to us while standing at the check-in counte...

Cairns, May 23 Our New Zealand campervan experience was fantastic, but before leaving NZ we had decided that it was far too expensive to rent another campervan in Australia because of the stronger currency, higher diesel prices, high-season pricing, and the higher costs to stay at campgrounds. The plan was to rent a cheap economy car for 10-12 days and drive down the eastern coast from Cairns to Sydney. Obviously the term 'was' would lead you to believe that t...