Feeling Fabulous Forever

For many years my husband and I have talked about the idea of packing up all our belongings and travelling around Australia with our two children. But, like many people it was just something that we only talked about and dreamt of.

How the Universe Works

In August 2010 we received a letter from our land lord stating that we needed to vacate the property that we were renting. As this is the third time this has happened to us in as many years we decided that the universe was trying to tell us something. It was time to follow our dream. 

First we thought that we would travel for 3 months. 

Then we decided 6 months would be better.

‘What the heck, it’s a big country and who wants to rush? - Let’s just go for 12 months’.

Just did it!

We had no clue about how we were going to do it, we just knew that we were going to make it happen. We researched websites, we spoke to other people who had done it and we did lots of reading. Thankfully we were able to borrow a caravan from a friend and we already had a 4WD.

We enrolled our children in distant education, packed up our furniture into storage and gave notice at our J.O.B.’s.

So here we are, 3 weeks into our trip (we left from Melbourne) and we have only made it as far as Pambula. We are so excited about our journey and the fabulous things we are going to do and see together as a family.

Making it happen

Did we have thousands of dollars in the bank? – Definately not!

Are we a little scared about how we are going to get by? – Of course!

But we were not going to let fear hold us back.

One of the main commens we get from people is – ‘We’re so jealous. That’s something we’ve always wanted to do, but we just can’t’. My question is can’t or won’t. Because as I tell my children there is no can’t in life. If you want to do something bad enough you will just make it happen.

What are you not doing that you would really like to?

Are you going to say in a few years time ‘I wish I had done that’?

Follow our Journey

I will be posting about our adventures as well as about Health, Fitness, Lifestyle and Wellbeing on this site as we travel.

You can also keep up to date with our trip at www.2kidsandacaravan.com.au where Maddi and Riley will be posting blogs weekly. They will also be writing about different things they did and places from a teenagers point of view at www.throughteenageeyes.com

Tomorrow I will share my goals for 2011 and you can keep up to date with them throughout the year.

I would love for you to share yours also.

Have a fabulous day because that is what you choose.

Dee