Blogs from Sunbury (Australia), Victoria, Australia, Oceania

Well we are off again. Preparing now for our trip to the Top end. This trip will take us to Katherine, Darwin and our ultimate destination Jabiru found in the Kakadu National Park. Now this sounds simple. Well maybe on paper but we have 3,774 kilometres (2,140 miles) to go just to get to Katherine. Our first three days will be on the road stopping at places like Port Augusta, Erldunda and Tennant Creek. Big drives in between each of those. Once in Katherine we will start the real holiday. In this entry i have included the maps showing where we are going.... read more

Hi everyone, we here we go again. Tonina and I are going on another 4X4 driving trip to the Red Centre of Australia. We will be taking our trusty Troop Carrier (Troopy), which by the way sleeps two comfortably in its expandable roof. We will be travelling with our son Paul, his wife Lisa and our three grandchildren. Also on this trip will be my sister and Tonina's brother and for those who don't know they are married to each other (in other words brother and sister married brother and sister). Anyhow with these three four wheel drives leaving on this trip we will be away from home for 16 days and in that time we will be travelling over 5,500 kilometers round trip. We will be travelling to the centre of Australia through mining country ... read more

Hi everyone, at the end of this week I will be doing something I have never ever done before. I am joining 300 other people on an unknown adventure in unknown cars. We are all joined in our efforts to raise money for the Cancer Council and to date these 145 teams (teams of two in each car) have raised over $580,000 for the Cancer Council. I will be on this trip with my brother in law Xavier. He will be driving and I will be navigating and hopefully having the odd nap.. The cars we will get will be old bombs worth no more than $1,000. We are bringing some tools with us to the rally just in case our wheels fall off. Subject to internet availability I will blog everyday for 6 days starting ... read more

Hi, everyone. It has been nearly a year since I lasted blogged on our Cape York trip. It is now time to take another trip with the Troopy and now this time to FraserIsland. I didn't blog our recent trip to New Zealand. We had such a full itinerary I just ran out of time. Well we are leaving for Fraser tomorrow morning at 5 am. Yes that is right 5 am. We need to get to a town called Narrabri by the end of the day. It is a 1,100km trip. A big day. We are in three cars. My eldest son Paul and his family ( this includes 3 grandchildren) and one of Paul's neighbours, Steve and his family including another 3 children. 12 of us all up. We are spending 13 days on ... read more

Well everyone, it has been a hectic build up to the big day. A wedding and also a trip, my head is spinning. My son Michael is getting married on Saturday 9th May and we are leaving for the Cape at 5am on Tuesday 12th. A lot has happened since the last post The biggest of which I got new tyres (I have nearly spent as much money as one would spend on an expensive guitar (Joseph)). The Troopy is now done. I have turned the two fridges on today and also put on the solar panels to test everything. Also had to change the windscreen. Good thing I had RACV glass insurance. I got sprayed with rocks from a passing truck last week. Now have a brand new windscreen. Also no rust under screen and ... read more