Anything Can Happen When You Decide To Go On An Adventure...

"Where are they?" "What are they doing?" "Where are they going next?"

You'd think by now, we have been so busy driving & travelling that the reason this blog hadn't been updated was because we were simply having too much fun...

Well, unfortunately, no. It has been interesting. Frustrating. Sad. Exhausting. And just when we think "that's it!" something else has cropped up.

First and saddest, we lost my Dad, Jeffrey Rasmussen, to his fight with Cancer last month. This changed everything. Suddenly, we were floating in a strange no-mans land of grief, where for a while there, it seemed we would never get going anywhere. Helping my mother and sister cope, as well as my own feelings and emotions, we took a month off, to just do, well, nothing.

We were carting between Gosford and Taree, arranging affairs, the funeral, afterward, etc. Until we started to feel a new type of normal emerge... and although we knew we would embark on this adventure eventually, it has felt like forever that we have stood still.

But today, we are making preparations for the next phase of our lives... Phillip is busy with the water tanks and gas bottle fittings, repacking the van and our car (a 2004 Turbo-Diesel Dual-Cab Navara)... and tomorrow, we hit the road!!!

Let the craziness begin!!!

Our route has changed... at this stage, we will head North to Coffs Harbour tomorrow, then onto Brisbane. Our dog had been staying with a family member, however he can't help us with that anymore, so we will collect Charlie (our beagle) and have him moved to his Doggy-Motel for the next 5 months.

I look at tomorrow with a surreal "I can't believe it's going to happen" feeling - having been on hiatus for so long, and having so many life-changing events in such a short period, it's hard to comprehend what is happening and when.

But I know, once we hit that open road, we will all begin to live again, and I will start to finally find myself. I'm just so blessed I get to do that with the company of my silly husband and crazy children!!!