That said, planning doesn’t mean we lock ourselves into itineraries and can’t be spontaneous. So whether we’re going somewhere for a weekend, a week or a month, we research it and plan it. We want to see as much as we can and we like to plan ahead. When we’re not travelling, we’re busy working and saving for the times when we are. To date, our travels have taken us to and through more than 70 countries and territories across all seven continents. Our honeymoon was a road trip up the East Coast of Australia. We got engaged during a road trip of Ireland. In the years since, we’ve split our time between London and Sydney, setting off every so often for extended travel stints. Ironically, when we did meet, I was planning to move to the UK, having been bitten by the travel bug on my own travels in France, Egypt and the US (where I also spent my early teens as a middle and high school student).ġ8 months later, we moved to London together (via a long overland trip through Vietnam) and our passion for travel kicked into the next gear. Had he not fallen in love with the place and decided to come back and, after a time, apply to stay, we’d have never met. Travel brought John to Australia as a backpacker in his late teens.
We’re not understating the matter when we say travel has had a profound influence on us and our life together. We can move quickly when time is tight, or slow right down and take the time to immerse and explore a place in depth.
Road tripping also means we can travel independently and, most importantly, at our own pace.
We’re always on the lookout for the offbeat and off-the-beaten-track.įor us, travel by road offers the very best opportunity to do just that: leave the tourist trail and the population centres behind and search out sites, places and experiences we might otherwise not get to see. For John, it’s the call of epic nature, the local football scene and craft beer. For me, wandering an ancient site, spotting a rare bird or seeking out the local vine tipple are pursuits worth going to extremes for. We’re avid scuba divers and amateur photography enthusiasts. Adventure-lovers, history buffs, foodies…our travel style is ultimately defined by the experiences we seek, whether that be pitching a tent in the mud in Uganda, diving a WWII wreck in Vanuatu, overlanding through the vast expanses of Patagonia, or cruising up the Nile aboard a luxury old-world dahabiya boat.
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