The Journey is soon to begin!

Denise and I are soon to embark on the biggest journey of our lives to date - travelling around this country of ours in a caravan. The idea was born last year about the time we spent a few days in Albany last October. In January we bought ourselves a 17 1/2 foot Coromal caravan (below):

Denise and I have always loved travelling together which started when we first met in August 2005. I was on my way to Margaret River for some chill out time and as circumstance would have it, she ended up coming with me having only having known each other on MSN for 2 weeks! Not soon after that we went on our first bushwalk on the Bibbulmun Track here in Perth. This gave a taste of things to come which mainly involved the track, but more than anything being transported away from our day-to-day existence. There's something special being alone with nature

People have been asking us why we are doing this trip now? The reason is that we want to enjoy a trip of this nature while we are still in reasonably good health There is a misconception that this is something for the oldies to do when they retire - not so. Since researching caravanning via various web sites and forums, I have discovered there are people of all ages who have upped stakes and headed off.

At this point in time, we are slowly getting things together and organized. I'm not going to bore you with the details but this week I organized storage for all the stuff we won't be taking with us. Today we packed some stuff from a couple of our bedrooms and put it into storage. Denise said it was cleansing to sort this stuff out and it's a nice feeling to get the ball rolling. Apart from booking us into the caravan parks we want to stay in in WA, I bought us a laptop. It is a HP Pavilion DV63202TU with all the goodies we want. Is is running Windows Vista which is a a bit of a learning curve for me, but it's a nice PC.

I've created this blog thanks to the recommendation of our friend Sharon whose space here can be found here. Good luck with your trip Sharon!

Excuse the waffling, but I wanted to set the foundation for this blog so you can see how our journey is progressing. When I get this hang of this site, I'll have a map on here!

Phil and Denise