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Which Way ‘Round?

The shock wore off slowly. We’re actually going to take a year off! It sounds a bit crazy. There are plenty of more sensible things we could spend our money on. We started budgeting and saving our coin. Now it’s time for some of the fun planning stuff. Ems went to the National Geographic shop… Read More Which Way ‘Round?

August 28, 2014August 26, 2014 hitthetoadLeave a comment

Our Wheels

Meet ‘Paj’ Before we bought the Pajero we had a Rav 4. It was a great car and Em loved it, but its V6 petrol engine just chewed through fuel whenever we were towing our camper trailer. It was not going to be economical to drive it thirty thousand odd kilometers around Australia. We decided… Read More Our Wheels

August 7, 2014August 6, 2014 hitthetoad3 Comments

Camper Trailer – Teething Problems, Upgrades & Mods

We were very excited when we picked up Our Camper Trailer, but we already knew that we’d be doing some upgrades ourselves. Canvas We knew we needed to season the canvas so towed the trailer over to Em’s sister’s place where we’d have room to put it up. It wasn’t too bad, but was longer… Read More Camper Trailer – Teething Problems, Upgrades & Mods

July 30, 2014July 30, 2014 hitthetoadLeave a comment

Budgeting

Ahhh, budgeting. The boring but necessary thing that will help turn these dreams into plans, and plans into reality. At first the idea of how much money we would need to save was just too big to think about. As we researched and read as much as we could about living costs on the road… Read More Budgeting

July 18, 2014July 18, 2014 hitthetoad3 Comments

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