Just two years ago…
- By Denise
- August 2, 2015
- 3 Comments
we decided to extend our planned trip to the 2015 Rugby World Cup from a short six weeks to a long one year family adventure. It was a major decision for our family as this meant resigning from work, selling our lifestyle property which we had grown from bare land well over a decade prior, and taking our ten year old son Carter, from his beloved country school…
A bank account was opened for the compulsory savings and we made sure that every spare dollar was deposited into this account. Applications for Rugby World Cup tickets were made and thankfully we were successful and allocated tickets to six games including a quarter final which the All Blacks should be in!!! Research into travel blogs, trip advisor, lonely planet and much more all but consumed our lives over this time.
However, it didn’t take long for the time to fly and all of a sudden our trip was “just around the corner”.
This is us – the travelling trio on the first flight of many to come. (Carter, Denise, Dave)
PERTH – Western Australia
This is “Lisa” our campervan – named by Carter because he believes Dave is Homer, me Marge and he is Bart!! Not too sure how long this will last though…
Our first night was in Perth and all is well in the world although internet access is a bit sporadic. We have been working our way south and have finally found a great little camping place in Busselton – its part of Big 4 and we have free wi-fi and the speed seems to be really good, hence the reason I’m trying to make my first real post. Excuse me if it doesn’t work out. Tomorrow we are going to try out some of the wineries, breweries, cheese factories and chocolate factories that the Margaret River area is famous for. More info on that later.
Just testing out,hope I’m first,camper looks cool,for carters,is your one bigger? Anyway just had catch up with Olivia,she asked after you all,Eve still very sad about putty tat,being put to sleep,did my first Po box pick up,and yes did spay crc all good,6 letters,,one for carter ,from the elation people,must want to sigh him up early,will drop them all of at folks ,with cloths,let us know when they back ,jan
Hey Jan – thanks for your post and update but sorry you were not first as one of Carter’s friends beat you to it!! Very sorry to hear about putty tat – tell Eve we are thinking about her… Say hi to Olivia – we are heading to Bali tomorrow and keen for some R&R. You and Eve would love the Margaret River area in South West Aussie – full of wineries, breweries, cheese, chocolate, nut factories and many more!! More later – cheers
Hi carter it is tom i was just wonting to catch up and ask how the trip is going and how bali is going. You are probably glade that you guys are not here because their is a virus going around Cust and rangiora it is pretty bad i have had a week of and the hole family are sick at home.
So i will keep in touch with you guys.
From Tom