Losing things sucks, but when you live inside a box that is lucky to be 10 metres square you wouldn't think it could be possible. We have had a few items misplaced or lost recently including the lid to our washing bucket (pretty annoying), a table, stool and picnic blanket (fell out of the caravan side hatch on a bumpy road leaving Tasman Peninsula - very annoying), and to top it off the CAR KEYS (painfully annoying). I'm expecting these to pop up in one of the ...

It is a funny life living in a caravan. Some days you feel like you are free to explore the world and answer to no one, sometimes it is closer to living in a retirement village, and other days you are only one step up from sleeping on the street. We are trying to stay in Situation No.1 as much as possible, but we opted to slide into Situation No.2 for a few days in Longford Caravan Park, near Launceston. Our sheets were wet, towels filthy and not a clean sock in...

So the cold mornings in Tasmania have really started to give our car some strife. The reliable 'keep on going' Prado has started to rattle, and thump, and blow a bit of smoke. A quick search on Dr Google gave me the diagnosis that our car was about to blow up and we would be stranded on the Apple Isle forever..... A sleepless night resulted in a morning of phone calls to Toyota to get it checked out. A few to and fro's from Richmond to Kingston resulted in nee...

The mandatory chore day seems to follow each stint of free camping. We had washing to do, supplies to buy, and organising to be done, but we managed to book end the day with a massive play for Theo with a family we have run into a few time along the way, a run into town over the oldest bridge in Australia (still in use), and finished off with meeting up with Willow and Matt. The kids enjoyed feeding the ducks down by the banks of the Coal River. Being in the hea...

Just a 5 hour drive she said, it's just 500kms she said.... After taking advantage of the local cafe at Strahan for a few days, we packed up and were off again to see the southern most tip of Australia. Apparently, standing in Cockle Creek, you are closer to Antartica then you are to Cairns... The driving day was yet another long driving day. Kids were pretty good, but the 5pm witching hour was getting close and we were nowhere near our destination. We made a ...