Albany To Nannup: The Search for Trees (Van around Australia Part Four)

These photos cover the part of our trip from Albany up to Nannup. Associated Youtube Video

Stokes, Fitzgerald River, Stirling Ranges and Porongurups (Van around Australia Part Three)

After Cape La Grand, we headed west along the coast for a national park bonanza. First stop was Quagi beach which was a nice campsite attached to a beach. Then next we headed for Stokes National park which was full of wildlife. After Stokes we headed for Fitzgerald River National Park which had a heap…

Nullarbor to Esperance: The Search for Western Australia (Van around Australia Part Two)

Ceduna SA – Esperance WA (28th April – 30th April) We set off from Ceduna across the Nullarbor. It was a bit repetitive but it wasn’t as bad as we expected. There wasn’t much in the way of official campsites (outside the expensive and depressing roadhouse caravan parks) but we found an amazing cliffside campsite/place…

Eyre Peninsula: The Search for Emu (Van around Australia Part One)

Torquay VIC to Ceduna SA (20th April – 27th April) Introduction We’ve decided to resurrect this blog to use as a diary of our big trip that we can look back on, and to let people know what we’re up to if they’re interested. This post will be a bit brief but we’ve decided to…

Santiago to Reykjavik: 126 Days, 126 Seconds

  We tried to take one second of video footage for every day of the Santiago to Reykjavik leg of our journey. Sometimes we forgot, and sometimes we took more than one video on a day so the amount of seconds at a particular place can be slightly off but each country is timed properly….

Iceland: The only thing to fear is the new letters

Iceland at last! The land of the Vikings. No other place interested people more when we mentioned it was part of our trip. The isolated, misty isle where Journey to the Centre of the Earth begins through a volcanic passageway in Mount Snæfellsjökull. [Guess who wrote that bit.] Iceland feels very much like many other Scandinavian countries and…

USA: Heading East

We arrived in Nashville, Tennessee on Independence Day only half through planning. As it turned out, Nashville hosts one of the biggest Independence Day festivals and fireworks displays in the country with 280,000 people attending. The whole centre of the town is closed to traffic and there is live music and food stalls lining the…

USA: Colorado

After being in a desert for a while we were aching to head north to greener pastures, but before that there was one stop that we needed to visit in the south, a national park called Mesa Verde. Mesa Verde Mesa Verde is centered around the remains of a civilization that existed about a thousand years ago. They…

USA: Arizona and Utah

Grand Canyon The road into Arizona from Las Vegas and to the the main town outside of the Grand Canyon called Williams was pretty desolate. It is mostly desert and rocky shrubland but as you get closer to the Grand Canyon it starts to get greener. We camped just outside of the Grand Canyon just…

USA: Death Valley and Nevada

Death Valley We forgot to mention Death Valley when we did our California post as we grouped it in with the more deserty Nevada but we looked it up and it is actually in California. Death Valley holds the record for the hottest recorded temperature on Earth which was given to us in Fahrenheit which…

USA: California

Los Angeles We got to Los Angeles, stayed at the cheapest hostel we could possibly find and then headed to the campervan depot to pick up our baby first thing next morning. All the vans were named and the guy working there was thrilled to be handing the campervan named Icarus to a women named…

Cuba Part 1: Havana, Varadero and Trinidad de Cuba

Havana We were not off to a good start when we arrived in Cuba and were immediately singled out from the crowd at customs and interrogated. After getting through customs we were interrogated again by another woman who checked the answers with what we said at the first interrogation. The type of camera we were…