It’s a Goa!

The challenge was set, to find jobs and save up $6000 (£2600) in six weeks so we could carry on North before the rainy season got into full swing and hopefully make it all the way to Melbourne in time for Christmas without having to work again.

To achieve this financial goal, we’d have to live very basically and work a lot of hours. Caravan parks would be a bit expensive so we’d have to try a combination of parking up in lay-bys and asking our employers if they’d kindly let us camp on their land (which would have the double benefit of saving us fuel from commuting). We’d only have to put up with these living conditions for six weeks so we reckoned it’d be difficult but achievable.

This is a little out of date now, as I wrote it many months ago back in Perth and never had the chance to put it on the blog! So apologies for the delay and hopefully we’ll be able to bring you up to date with all our more recent travel adventures shortly!
 
I sit writing […]

Meet Bessie, our 1973 VW campervan! We both hankered after one of these since before we met each other but in Britain they are so expensive and often rusty. We had to be satisfied with peering around beautiful VWs during our annual visits to Bug Jam festival.

Ha ha, perhaps you thought we were back in the UK. No, but we’re back on the net, and back in Western uncivilisation. A couple of paragraphs on what we’ve been up to since our last report back in April…
We headed back up to Malaysia, via the small colonial town of Melaka, which has a […]

We spent a very stressful week preparing Bessie and ourselves for our epic roadtrip. Just before I left work, Frank, my boss at the garage and I had given Bessie a full service and fixed a few little niggly faults. Tace and I also had to make some improvements to the interior so we’d be […]