Our life has changed a lot this year, work, school, extra curricular activities for the boys, a boat and swags. But we are still adventurers/explorers. We love getting out exploring this wonderful part of the country. 
  
But it just doesn’t feel like a place for us to put down roots. Matt and I often talk about it. Is it our nomadic lifestyle that we have lived for so long that is stopping us? Or is it just not quite the place for us? 
This kinda puts an uncertainty in our mind. What if there is no place that we want to put our roots down? 

Our old stomping ground (Echuca) we still refer to as “home” as our family and some of our great friends are there. It’s where the boys were born. It’s where we got married. It’s where our journey began. I’m not sure that’s where our journey is meant to end though. We do still love it there and we get so excited every time we go back “home”. But once again we aren’t sure it’s for us anymore. 

  
Then we contemplate buying another van and that excites me. I love the idea of adventuring again. But the boys … should they know what it’s like to put down roots? Do they really need to? So many defence and police families don’t. They have to move on every couple of years and their kids seem fine. Well adapted. So is it really any different if we do the same? Stay a couple of years in each place then move on. 
  
Then their is the emotional pull to be near our families. Our parents are getting older, the boys are getting older. While they have great memories of the time they have had with their grandparents, are we minimising the amount of memories they could have? Even with their cousins, aunties and uncles. Another couple of years and the boys will be doing their own thing and they won’t have that great connection with cousins like I did with a few of mine. 
  
  
All these thoughts and feelings run threw my head everyday. Then the weekend comes and I love my Friday night drinks with the mums I’ve become friends with. And I love Saturday and sundays exploring with my little family. 
We have made so many friends here that are so similar to us. They love exploring, fishing, boating and having a great time.

   
The community here is amazing too. Everyone is super friendly.We are loving our time here in the Pilbara. 

 Is there a place like this for us on the East Coast? Or is it the remoteness that has made this place like it is? 

Am I ever going to stop having these feelings? Am I ever going to make these type of friends again? 
Why are we so apprehensive about making the next change/leap? I find it so funny that we are toing and froing on this decision, the next journey. We just leaped when we decided to leave on the trip. Within a month we had the house on the market and had made plans. This time we can’t decide where to next, there is so many places we want to live. Whether to rent or buy. Whether we go country or city living. Whether we go cold weather or warm weather. 
I kinda wish some one would say you should go here. There is a job for Matt and good school for boys and it’s a great community. 

Some days I wish we hadn’t sold our house so we had somewhere to go. But even then I have doubts going back. Would we even fit in there now. We feel so different to the people that we were when were there. 

Any advice or if you want to offer us a job. Anything at this stage would be great appreciated😊