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Stress-Free Recovery Time in Sydney

Just a quick check-in today. We arrived in Sydney yesterday after a flight from Vancouver to Auckland, a short layover in New Zealand, and then on to Sydney. And joy of joys, ALL of the luggage arrived!

My body might be here, but my brain and consciousness are not fully believing it quite yet. I think they’re still hanging out in the ether somewhere over the Pacific Ocean. Long haul flights are simply a dreadful way to travel once you are older than 20 or 30-something!

We’re staying with friends out at the beach and beginning to do online searches for the essentials beginning with a vehicle.

I’ll try to be back relatively soon with new posts — but no promises.

Time for another nap for this jet-lagged little body!

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Bookish Brainstorming

Ahhhh, it sounds so glamourous ‘in theory’ doesn’t it — the mid-life adventures of 2 rambling nomads who cast aside their safe and secure life in Australia to live out of a suitcase for long-term travel.
 

Normandy Guidebook


 
The reality occasionally lives up to the expectations and some of our destinations have been brilliant, scenic, and memory-making in a good way. We’ve also met so many interesting people along the way. But rather often we’ve had a gritty master class in the concept of ‘living in flow’ just so we could stay happy and sane.

Do we have any second thoughts about our intentionally chosen lifestyle? 99.9% of the time the answer is a firm no!

A small, tight, not-too-rambling book might be on the horizon — perhaps in e-book only format — perhaps also in print.

I did actually format a few pages today and I have a title. But that’s going to be a secret for awhile!

I’ll keep you posted.

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Dreaming and Planning

Two years ago? Has it really been two years ago since I registered this domain name and began to prepare for an around the world trip?

We had a plan — sell our small acreage instead of building a house on it, put all of our household goods in storage, and go around the world whilst working in a variety of jobs and countries along the way. Then we’d come home to Australia and buy another house. Sounds pretty good, eh — pretty straightforward?

Life didn’t cooperate with our plans and the real estate listing expired with no sale. All of our ideas went on hold for awhile and we went back to our day to day life. But we never stopped dreaming of that big overseas trip — all the while enjoying several smaller ones around Australia.

Kangaroo Warning Sign in Tasmania

The village where we live in Central Victoria in Australia is a gorgeous and historical gold mining site from the 1800s and I’ll include pictures of some of our local sites in a future post. We’ve loved living here and we are currently in the final stages of construction, an addition actually, onto the little eco-cottage that we built on our wee farm. But as we come closer to completion, those plans and dreams have percolated to the surface again and we are back to planning the around the world trip.

We love Australia and our life and friends here — but it’s time for a change. There are lots of reasons including health issues — but the bottom line is that serious change is afoot and 2010 will be the year for the REALLY BIG TRIP!

I will update this site during the coming year as things progress towards departure.

But in the meantime, I will begin by posting stories from our travels around Australia — a beautiful and varied country that everyone should visit at least once during their lifetime. We have been very blessed to live here!