Happy New Year to all our readers, we hope 2015 brings you health, happiness and travel. New Years Day, and time for me and Andy to break camp and start our journey back to Perth. Andy, Karen and Naomi are staying another night and will do their journey in one day, I was happy for us to take a nice and easy trip home so we allowed ourselves a couple of days and a rough idea of what route we wanted to take. So as soon as we were out of bed we started to pack up, we have been here for a while so packing up takes slightly longer than an overnighter. We popped around to Andy and Karen's and ate jaffles for breakfast, then got back to it. We were ready for the off ... read more

Boxing Day 26thDecember 2014 (Chicken Tracks) Boxing Day arrived and we awoke to a beautiful morning, if only a little on the windy side. Our plans for the day were to pack some lunch and head out to Israelites Bay, it is a 4 wheel drive track taking us further into the Cape Arid National Park, more remote and so far across Western Australia that it sits just below and beyond Balladonia on the Nullarbor. We left camp at about 10.00am with Andy, Karen and Naomi in their 100 Series and Caroline and I in ours, even though using two vehicles was not the most economical way of travelling we figured if one vehicle became bogged then the other vehicle could tow it out if required. The first 30 k’s were just gravel roads, to the ... read more

Do Only Bears Eat Honey? 22nd & 23rd December The morning dawned, the birds were singing in abundance, the light was streaming through the window along with the cool breeze, the sun was up. I was awake early again, it seems that my body clock has not altered yet, it will, but of course it will make it harder to get back into work routine once our holiday is over. I finally slid out of bed at 6.30 to put the kettle on, a hand signal from Andy indicated that he too wanted a morning cup of tea. It looked like there was no way he would move from the bed too early this morning, but that was ok, I wanted him to do as little as possible and rest up. He still needs to rest, ... read more

I woke up early this morning, my head was pounding, nothing to do with sleeping in the new trailer, we were both dog tired as it had been a busy week getting Roobie prepared for her inaugural journey, ideally we would have preferred to have had a short weekend trip to help shake things down but time was not on our side, so we loaded the best way we could and the shake down will happen, one way or another. Andy had the day off from work as he finished up on Thursday night and dropped me off at a colleagues house at 06.30 in the morning, she was taking me to work early so that I could leave early and thus she could drop me at home so I did not have to worry about ... read more

Caroline sent me an e-mail to my work account advising me that one of our friends from the ACT 4wheel drive club had contacted her and said that he was in Perth for the week on business and would like to catch up with us and possibly have some dinner if we were available. Of course we could find time to see someone who had made such an effort to make contact with us and of course it is always great to catch up with our old friends and 4wheel drive buddies. The last time we had journeying friends in Perth was about 12 months ago, when Richard and Elaine Wdowik flew over from Canberra for a holiday, hired a motor home and dropped in to say hi and have a catch up over coffee. It ... read more