A few months ago we decided to sell the Patriot Campers X3 and upgrade to a Track TVAN – this left us without a camper trailer for a while which saw us camping win swags for a while. Traditional camping was a great change and helped us to simplify our camping kit, but we still looked forward to arrival of the new trailer and the benefit of some mod cons to make camping more sustainable.
Tag: COVID19
Cape York on hold – COVID19 Lockdown puts the brakes on our trip
So close… 4 days from our planned departure to Cape York and Brisbane was locked down due to a COVID19 outbreak! Today we planned to have been trucking up the Bruce Highway with plans to reach St Lawrence tonight, the first of several long driving days to reach end of the bitumen and start of the Cape’s dirt roads and tracks.
Left with 1/2 a rig… the Patriot X3 is gone
Well the sad day arrived – we sold the X3 and delivered it today.
That leaves us with a space in the garage until the TVAN arrives – I’m using that to start getting organised for our Cape York trip in August and wrap up a few other projects.
Back in the Sunshine, but still in the dust
An early start and a few short miles had us crossing the border out of the NT and into the Sunshine State, welcome home for the Travelling Two. Our 630km run southward today took us along the Donohue Highway to Boulia, then down a series of development roads through the channel country to Birdsville.
A new decade – a new outlook
March 2020 shook the world. The COVID19 outbreak was no longer confined to China, Italy and UK COVID deaths sky rocketed and the disease truly became a global pandemic. We had just arrived back from an epic trip to Norway and Scotland, barely beating the disease back to Australia as country borders began to slam…