3 years on

Today marks 3 years since we hit the road on our adventure to travel Australia for what was meant to be 12 months. 
 

  
 

I never know whether we can actually say we are gypsies or not. As the first 3 months we spend Travelling then the next 18 months we spend in the most beautiful city exploring and working and saving. Then we returned to Victoria for what should’ve been 6 months but after our hiccup with our van turned into 12 months with 6 months of that in a house. Then the last 6 months we moved to Darwin in our new van.

Not sure that we can say we have travelled Australia just yet but we have lived in a van now for 2.5 years with 6 months in a house. And I can’t see us moving into a house in the near future either we love this style of living. 

 

 
In 3 years we have had 3 vans 😂😂 And for now we are happy with our home on wheels. It is the perfect house for 4 people living permanently in it. 

 

 
I still love our old homes and they served their purpose but I am so grateful for the upgrade. 
In 3 years we have towed caravan’s 15,890kms that includes our couple of trips around Perth and sight seeing while out on those trips. And our trips to and from Perth then our trip up centre to Darwin. 

  
However this doesn’t include any of our adventures while back in Victoria nor our trips to Sydney nor our monthly trips to Melbourne airport. It is just our travelling kms. 
I have kept a budget majority of time except our time in Victoria which I now regret.

Whilst travelling for the 3 months we averaged $750 per week and that includes everything new tyres for caravan, new battery, major service, accommodation, food, petrol, entertainment and treats like ice cream, coffees, takeaway.

We stayed the majority of the time at free or low cost camps. We mainly did free entertainment things with a few paid activities.

Once we moved into caravan park in Perth our budget went up to $1000 that included suspension upgrade, new tyres for car, another service.

Once we started fifo lifestyle this went up to $1100 as we started doing things on RnR that cost money and having a lot more extra treats.

Since being in Darwin our budget is sitting round $1200 again making most of good income so have been doing a lot of paid entertainment and treats. But in general groceries are costing an extra $100 a week as nothing seems to last long in this humidity.
We love this lifestyle obviously after living like this for 3 years. We are now getting prepared to head off on a actual trip around Australia and we could stop again and work somewhere for 6 months or we may just travel who knows we change our minds like we change our jocks. And that is one good thing about this lifestyle is that we can change our minds when we want.

But a trip of some sort is getting closer to starting as our boys are getting older so we will need to be some what settled for high school years. 

Who knows what 2018 will hold for us. 
Take care xo