Road trippin

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I've found my new favourite way to travel. Especially for Australia, which has big open roads, plenty of public toilets and even free showers on the beach, and lots of free camping sites and rest areas as long as you know where to look.
It's made for road tripping.

Plus, I struggled with anxiety on my first East Coast trip back in March before the rona, and I was constantly trying to overplan everything to the minute. But living in a van forces you to be more spontaneous. Many nights we don't know where we'll sleep that night until we get there, and with the rest areas it's just a matter of if there's a space when we turn up. You can't plan where you'll get food all the time, where you get petrol, or even what you'll do at a location.
We'll often stay somewhere longer if we are enjoying it, or move on quicker from somewhere if we aren't too bothered. (Like staying in Bundaberg for not one, not two, but three nights to drink with Ryley's farm friends... oops..).
But that really is the beauty of it. We've got full freedom to be wherever we want to be, and we only really needed to be at Fraser for a certain date and then the Whitsundays (which we are doing today!!). So everything else is completely made up as we go along.

I'm really getting everything out of this that I wanted to get from travelling. Ryley and I have been absolutely ecstatic the whole time to be living our dreams. We keep saying "Look at us!" *insert Paul Rudd meme here*

The past two days have been a lot of driving, because we stayed in Bundy so long and we needed to get to Airlie beach for last night. Even still, they have been fun days, and it's been such an adventure figuring out what's the best way to do things and where we can sleep for the night. The van is so fun to drive, and we relish in our mornings cooking breakfast and looking out onto the beautiful Australian morning wherever we might have woken up that day.


And we aren't even halfway yet. Whitsundays this arvo, we are both beyond excited!!

Shepp x

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