Our Ultimate Travel Companion Our Sur-Ron is a fully electric off-road dirt bike, made up as a mix between a mountain bike and an off road dirt/trail bike. I’ve ridden about 700km on mine now over 6 months on the road, so I feel fairly well qualified to review it for Overlanders in particular. Watch […]
We have been on the road for 6 months at the time of writing, and have moved every 3 days on average, so that’s a total of about 61 different campsites! I thought it would be a good time to stop and write a post about our favourites so far. We haven’t gone that far
Our 3 most Beautiful Campsites in 6 months on the road. Read More »
Just thought we’d let everyone know what GPS we use! We’ve tried a few GPS apps for our phones and tablets, but I (Daniel) as the main driver, really wanted something that just stayed in the truck, was always on when we were driving, was easy to read and to use. So I started researching GPS
A lot of people ask about what it is like travelling with dogs full-time. In short, it is harder with than without them but all it takes is more organisation, and they are no harder than travelling with a 3yr old! First Things First… What I mean by more organisation is that we try to
Where do we even start? What even is a caravan? GVM? Amp Hours? Sway control? What Tow vehicle will we be getting? What caravan? Should we even get a caravan or do some sort of truck camper? Or back of the Ute camper? A bus? Wow. To say it is all overwhelming is an understatement. Daniel is
Caravan, Motorhome, Bus, Expedition Truck, Camper trailer? WHICH ONE WE CHOSE AND WHY! Read More »
After 4 weeks on the road…How are we feeling and what have we learnt… Well, what a whirlwind of time. We are doing things a little differently to many others in that our first 6 weeks are our real shakedown trip weeks and our first 2 weeks were a bit intense as we headed from
Firstly, we sat down for many nights and wrote a very detailed to-do list. We use an app called ‘Trello’, which has Boards that you create, then Lists and Cards. You can also have multiple people share access to the Board and can add, delete, move Cards around. We both have our “Big Lap” Board
Now that we have narrowed down our field of options, we are only left with the mammoth task of finding the perfect caravan for us, which probably doesn’t even exist! We aren’t experts, and we have never owned a caravan, so here is how we decided which to get! The really offroad vans – Kedron
Engels cheapest reasonably sized fridge has served our family really well over the last 7 years. The Eclipse was meant to be the new, affordable model for Engel, who had seen fridge retail prices increase and a lot of the market start to get priced out of their products, at the same time as competitors
If you are ever in the Newcastle region and fancy an amazing day or few days out, the Stockton Sand Dunes are one of the best places to do it. Known as the beach playground of the East Coast, we are lucky enough to live near it, and have ventured out a few times, most
