Blogs from Box Hill North, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Oceania - page 2

Day 12 - Eyes open, wide awake! Waking up in the beach house is just that little bit more relaxed than waking up at Harrison Street. There is no early morning walk, there is no school to get the girls organised for and there is nobody up!! We are off to look at the Nissan Terrano this morning which means a trip back towards the city so on the way we’re also going to collect a coffee table which Anna lay-byed at ‘The Mellow Canary’ in Mt Eliza We’re using Anna’s car today as the coffee table is probably too big for the Statesman! It takes about an hour to get back to Moorabin as we go via Frankston to look at a couple of caravan places. We actually find a couple that are really good ... read more

Day 10 - Wednesday 6th May Another day spent hot on the trail of our adventure vehicle. We had some good leads today from Grant who spent a gruelling hour on the phone to various car yards in the Victoria state! What we had begun to realise, that there were very few diesel cars in a 100km radius was becoming a reality! We followed up leads in Heidelburg, Preston and then Thomastown looking out for other possibilities on the way. Heidelberg was a 3lt Prado - the right vehicle but the wrong price and the sellers wouldn’t budge. Preston was a full on leather interior within a Landcruiser - that was a big no from me! Thomastown, our final yard of the morning was on a recommendation (friend of a friend) and the guy we met ... read more

Day 7 was all about recovery! At one stage only I (Sarah) and Amy were awake mid afternoon!! There were 'nana naps' going on all over the place! We were up reasonably early but there was no morning walk! Grant and Darryl went for shopping supplies; bacon, eggs, crunchy nut cornflakes etc etc. There's nothing like bacon and eggs to wipe away the heavy eyes of the night before! After breakfast, which to be honest was more like lunch, the household crashed! Charlotte & Amy had been playing in the tent and building a new cubby house under the family room table, things had gone quiet and we realised Charlotte was fast asleep in the tent! That left Amy at liberty to start a new game of 'poofee racing' up at down the solid wood floors! ... read more

Day 5 - Early morning walks are a great way to start the day! It's so funny taking Henry out, he just loves winding up all the other dogs on the route that are behind fences and gates! Naughty boy!! We spent more time this morning scouring the internet for cars and dealers and then planning the route to view them! This turned out to be a good idea and our journey today was much better with less time sitting in traffic! We hope we've found a vehicle and possibly a caravan - a Holden Jackaroo 3lt TDI (2002 with 111,000 on the clock) and a weeny caravan with double bed, microwave, seating area & pull out awning. We've looked at so many vehicles now and we were heading down the Nissan Patrol / Toyota Landcruiser ... read more

Day 3 - Now what you have to remember is that this is the calm before the storm, so to speak! Hence the 'quiet publish' approach to the blogs over the next couple of days! Today has been a chill-ax day of unpacking! Not very exciting to you guys I wouldn't have thought but it's been amusing for us as the realisation sneaks home in terms of 'why the heck did I pack that' and 'where are all my T-shirts'?! All of Darryl's clothing seems to be here but shock, horror Sarah might have to go shopping as she doesn't seem to have brought much! Well, well, how did that happen?! It's been quite a laugh untangling all the electrical stuff we've brought! Charger for this, charger for that, mouse for this, mouse for that, batteries ... read more