RVroaming

When friends and family ask me why I am heading off next month, to live and travel on the road, I refer them to this quote by G.K. Chesterton:
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign [...]

For want of a nail the shoe was lost.
For want of a shoe the horse was lost.
For want of a horse the rider was lost.
For want of a rider the battle was lost.
For want of a battle the kingdom was lost.
And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.
At times I felt like I was [...]

In April 1861, the explorers Robert Burke and William Wills — sick, starving and desperate to survive — abandoned their surveying instruments and other ‘non-essential’ items in outback Queensland and continued south on their ill-fated journey.
Almost 150 years later, in a discovery being proclaimed as the holy grail for Burke and Wills enthusiasts, a Melbourne [...]

Can’t win some days. The solar installers are still waiting for four 100Ah AGM batteries that were ordered from the “North Island’ nearly two weeks ago.
If they don’t arrive today they probably will not get here for another week thanks to the Easter break.

There’s one month exactly to go for a rather special birthday, and that’s the day I plan to hit the road.
Today was a good one in terms of getting the bus ready for the big adventure … the solar panels are finally in place. Unfortunately, Easter gets in the way and the final wiring will [...]

Next time the price of diesel goes up too high, I’m investing in one of these.

There’s something basic about cooking on a naked flame outdoors, and many years of camping has reinforced that primeval urge.
And that’s where I’ll be doing most of my cooking when I hit the road again.
Besides the sheer pleasure, there’s another valid reason — kitchen grease and grime.
Just last week, while checking out my ‘bricks [...]

Hollywood could not have scripted it better.