Travels of Shepp

Instagram always sugar coats everything- a highlight reel won't show the bad parts. When I'm having fun I'm having the time of my life, but when it rains it pours. (A very fitting analogy for the recent climate here.) If I'm honest, life is pretty tough at the moment. I'm 26 days away from completing my 88 on the farm, and it's never felt further away. Bad weather and huge storms recently mean that my work has been rained off for days on end and it's very difficult to find other work. This in turn means that the more work gets cancelled, the later I'll be able to finish my days. It's really disheartening when we're so desperate to get out of here and get back to what we really came for- travelling and spending quality time in this beautiful country. The frustration just seems like make the time go even slower. It has been, and will continue to be, such a huge test in perserverance and being optimistic. Work itself can be quite...

It feels like I haven't written in so long even though it's only been a couple of weeks, just because of the intensity of life here, it seems like so much has happened in the past few weeks. I'm now living in the caravan park in Gatton, a few minutes down the road from where I was previously. Most people moved from there as the rules were getting far too strict and we needed a better place to live. It's always a beautiful sunset I've been much happier at the caravan park. The atmosphere is soo much nicer, with a big communal outdoor kitchen in the middle and everyone's cabins facing it. It means we can sit outside having a beer and chatting after work, which we couldn't dream of before. It's taken me such a long time, but I do feel like I've finally settled into life in farm country. I've struggled so much with social anxiety, feeling like I don't belong here, and of course the farm work itself. Anyone that knows me knows ...