Farewell Gold Coast It was an amazing week spent in Main Beach with Steve and Alan. The hospitality and dwellings were 10/10. It was another teary farewell as they dropped us at the airport in Brisbane. I’ve had enough tear-jerker moments in the past couple of weeks to last me a lifetime I think. It […]
Living life on the GC – Life is Good
The Final Stages Sometimes you think that you’re never going to get there. That countdown app on your phone still shows a horrendous amount of days to go. Then suddenly ‘BOOM’, D Day is nearly here. That’s right – Departure Day is only days away. How did that happen! The final stages when everything starts […]
Finishing our Road Trip We continued on with our journey from Manapouri, ending up in the tourist mecca of Queenstown. It was bustling with tourists which gave it a party atmosphere despite the changeable and rather cooler weather. Pinot and Hiking Not both at the same time! Central Otago make some of the best […]
Visiting Family Southland bound – We heading south to visit family and to take the opportunity for a road trip around the bottom of the south and ending back up to Queenstown. Invercargill was our destination for family catch up and then we headed to ‘lands end’ before taking in the views around Lake Manapouri and […]
Is Middle Age Just a Number Okay, we’re both in our early 50’s. When we first started researching everything there is to know about long term travel, nomads, backpacking or budget journey’s, there were a whole host of YouTube videos on ‘twentysomething backpackers’ and how to make the most out of hostels, drinking and the […]
“The hardest thing in the world is to simplify your life – it’s so easy to make it complex” So Could You Do It? When did life become so complex? It could be when you buy your first property or when you have children, when you get a pet or when you get your […]
Everything you need to know about vaccinations The goal posts keep changing when it comes to finding out what vaccinations are required. That’s why it pays to go to a clinic which specialises in overseas travel. They have the up to date information on the warnings and outbreaks around the globe. It’s not cheap but […]
Waiting, waiting, waiting And so time marches on and we watch the days and weeks tick by. There has been some progress being slowly made behind the scenes to make this happen. After what seemed like an eternal holding pattern, we’re getting closer to being ‘flight ready’. Now that our one way tickets to the […]
Turning the Dream Into Reality I can’t pinpoint the moment that we sat down and said ‘buggar it, we’re outta here’. We spoke about it for so long, dreaming, researching and watching endless Youtube channels. We have been through so many scenarios in our heads that it would be easy to focus on just one of […]