New Zealand - Bay of Plenty We are now one month into work and is going really well, Dave is planning on doing lots of white water trips and I'm brushing up on my rolling technique before i head down any rapids. I have started work in the office of the adventure park purely for my experience, learning lots about the admin side of running an adventure park. We have found a place of our own to live which is only minutes from work, so a nice short commute p...

Von Chav Family Road Trip - Grampians and Great Ocean Road It was a pleasant surprise coming back to Melbourne, because unlike this time last year the sun was out and the temperature was soaring, which gave us some well earned beach time in Victoria. Unfortunately we couldn't spend to much time on the beach and we only had one week in Melbourne to get ourselves sorted for travelling on to New Zealand, see friends, and do a four day road trip through the Gra...

Im sure your all itching to know why exactly we were pulled over by the police... we were happily cruising through South Australia (2 hours from the Victoria Border) when a cop pulled us over for have an "obscured numberplate" (which is only illegal in SA), we have our bikes on the back and have done since we had the van but this cop was obviously having a bad day and fined us $359 on the spot, we later discovered that this is a dollar for everyday we w...

The Red Centre So after some ummming and agghhhinng we decide to go for it, we would take Froanne to the outback and visit the Australian Red Centre. The good news is we made it, and had an absolute blast doing it. We started our road trip in Cairns where we picked up a friend shell, she was in our group for Fraser Island and it seemed a good idea to have someone else in the for the company on the long drive as well as split the fuel cost with. We d...

Atherton Tablelands and Fitzroy Island Well Atherton Tablelands were a breath of fresh air coming form Cairns and so much better than Cape Tribulation which was a surprise, we only found out about by a friends who's uncle had said it was a must see. It was a long slow getting there, 20km of solid up hill driving on stupidly winding roads, 30-40km/h in 3rd gear, but t was well worth it in the end. So the Atherton Tableland are where Peter Andre filmed the...