We left our home in Byron Bay on the 15th of January 2010 and we are still travelling 22 month later.

“Allow yourself to dream big and than set out to turn your dream into reality”

This is our family’s blog;
Richard ( IT Specialist) and Nici ( Production Manager/designer) and Ayesha and Orlando.Here we document the high and the lows as we backpack round the world with our 2 children.

In 2009 we came to a crossroad in our life, we had to ask asked ourselves the question, “ with the money we had, shall we put a deposit on a house (mind you a house we have been wanting for a long time) and settle down to a life of school, work, weekend friends and a huge mortgage, or instead use the money to travel for at least the next two years as a family??”.

The answer was easy for us,( reckless to others), but we chose TRAVEL! I (Nici) had travelled a lot as a child and loved the freedom of the road and as a family we have not had the luck to travel much together. Yes of course we went camping a lot and travelled to festivals as well as flights to Tasmania to see family, but a real overseas trips had not happened for us for many different reasons. The other reason was also that our kids were growing up so fast, that one had already left the nest so to speak. Jasmine ( Richards oldest daughter) had moved to Melbourne to live with her Mum, so we only had 2kids left in the house.
So we made January the 15th 2010(our 15th anniversary) the day we would leave to head off on our adventure.
Our first year was spent travelling around Australia in a 4wd and a camper trailer, we went everywhere from the North to the South, East to the West, from the center of cities, to the remotest of outback regions. Australia is a beautiful country that more Australians should explore and not wait until there’re grey nomads.
In our second year 2011, we flew from Australia to Singapore then journeyed overland through South East Asia, into China, then Mongolia, Russia and into Europe. We currently plan to travel Europe for a couple of months and then travel to Africa, and then back to Europe for a white Christmas.

We’re traveling on a budget, so we stay in hostels, guesthouses and we do as much Couch Surfing with locals as we can. Couch surfing is awesome and is the best way to see and understand the people and country we are visiting.
Our blog documents our journey, our adventures, our fun times and hard times, the people we meet along the way and the places we have visited. We try to see the major city’s as well as the small towns and the countryside of every country we visit. We always try and get a locals perspective of the area and learn as much as we can in the country we are living in. The world is like a big interactive classroom for our children, everyday something new and something different.
So read on,and follow our travels. We try and update our blog at least every couple of weeks.
love and light
Richard, Nici, Ayesha & Orlando