I never thought that we had a lot of gear, but when you are changing your life style in such a monumental way you find it difficult to rationalise your stuff. Where do you begin? It is a little different than just going touring as a holliday because when you are working you need to take all sorts of different clothing eg. bussiness, site, casual & formal, for both winter & summer. We will have to cull our gear as we work out what is truly needed. Pat le...

As usual once a decision like selling the house and travelling has been made, we act on it fast. Everything just fell into place. Pat has acccepted a position as Carpentaria Road Foreman at Normanton on a casual contract. Minimum 6 months or as the contract states "till the rains come in" . It is ten days on in camp and 4 days off. Quality away time for both of us as we will be living in an 18.6ft caravan for the next few years. Pat leaves tomorrow while I finis...