EP56: The Final Road Home | Lap of Australia in a Caravan
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2023
- It's been 365 days, we've covered more than 27,000Km across the country and our amazing lap of Australia is unfortunately coming to an end. We cross the border, back into Victoria for the first time in a year and visit beautiful Lakes Entrance for a few days.
Our last stop before home is a quiet little spot called Lake Narracan where we spend some time chilling out and getting a bit of life admin done before the arrival home to Mornington.
We are Hannah, Chris and dog Archie, setting off on a 12(ish) month trip around Australia - our BIG Staycation, with the whole of Australia as our backyard! We've quit our jobs, rented the house and gone from never towing a caravan, to touring the country full time with one! We're learning as we go! / staycationoz
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• EP54: Australia's Capi...
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EP52: Stunning North Coast NSW | Byron Bay, Coffs Harbour, Port Macquarie
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EP51: Gorgeous Gold Coast and Springbrook NP | Surfers Paradise, Coolangatta
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looking forward to any reflections, learnings you may have. Enjoy the new normal!
Thanks Cath - will get the next video up in the next few weeks x
All good things come to an end but it's all been fun, with lots of education thrown in. Well done on your achievement and thanks for showing us an insight over the turn of the year !
Yes it’s been a fantastic experience!!
Awww lovely episode. Thanks for sharing your trip with us
Thanks Laura, so glad you enjoyed it! Hannah and Chris 😊
Pretty much followed you guys from the beginning, thank you so much for the entertainment and for sharing with us your adventures from "newbies" to "seasoned veterans"!
Hey Tony - thanks so much for sharing our adventure with us! I think we proved that you can set off on your travels with minimal knowledge (outside a fair bit of RUclips research!)
Take care, Hannah and Chris ☺️
👏🏻👏🏻 Congratulations on your lap , I am sure we will have a breakdown vid from Hannah the spreadsheet Queen 😊😂 again well done. Good luck with your future adventures 🍻can’t waste those droning skills now Chris
Thanks Stewie! You know I do love a good spreadsheet 🤓 - appreciate your support! Hannah & Chris
Well done, I have really enjoyed all the videos, from the very first video of you planning the trip and picking up the car and van.
Good luck in your next adventure.
Thanks Stuart, and thanks for sticking with us from the start!! ☺️
hey guys thanks for sharing, I found your content informative and down to earth...enjoyed. We are in the mind boggling process of trying to settle on new van. 😵💫😄
Hey Russ. Glad you found our content useful and enjoyable. Feel free to get in touch if you want to bounce any new van ideas/options of anyone ☺️
@@StaycationOz thanks.. I think we have settled on single axle approx 17' this will suit our weight requirements (under 3t) and we would like to have weight room and tow around 2.5t. we are not planning the lap just yet, just getting out there!! (work 🙃)
I look forward to your wrap up and thought process for what comes next in your travel adventures.
The Crusader full composite is in the mix for us. I know you had some issues to begin with and would be grateful to hear your thoughts after living full time for a year in one. (no pressure only share if you want) 😉
all the best guys
We only had very minor issues and nothing with the actual caravan build (had to get the washing machine fixed and the skylights replaced) - I think the Excalibur range are great vans to travel long term in!
Awesome trip!
Thanks for sharing 😊
Thanks Jenny!
Enjoyed watching your journey and adventures around Australia. Cheers to more travels in the near future.
Will you be able to dedicate a video on towing a caravan and reverse to park. Like tips and advice on what not to do.. thank you
Hey Afaf! Thanks for watching. That’s a great idea to do a video on that. Leave it with us and we’ll come up with something!! Thanks, Hannah and Chris ☺️
So sad it is over....
We like to think it’s just the end of one chapter, and there’s something new and exciting just round the corner 😜
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I sincerely wish you this! And I hope there will be more videos :) I have watched some of the films in the series many times, but now I am going to watch the whole series again, all episodes, one by one. In November I will travel to Australia and NZ so finally I will also see some of these places (so excited). All the best to you guys and hugs to Archie!
Thanks Katarzyna! X
Thanks - we loved all your videos. Sad to be home. Hope Archie got better. Best wishes with the new jobs. Well done. Cheers Graham and Kath
Hey Graham and Kath! Hope you’re both well. All good things must come to an end. I actually got a little teary pulling together the photo montage at the end of this video. Am so grateful that we got the opportunity to have this fantastic adventure. ☺️ All the best, Hannah and Chris
Thank you so much for your tips and ideas we have so enjoyed following your adventures all the best for what ever you have planned for once you are home 🤗🤗😢❤️
Thanks so much Jo - so glad you’ve enjoyed watching. 🤗 Hannah & Chris
Thanks for all the memories i really enjoyed your trip
Hi Susan. Thanks so much for supporting us and watching our videos. Take care, Hannah & Chris 😁
Well done guys, great videos of your lap, we have followed your amazing journey and have learnt so much. We have just bought our Caravan and will shortly sample holidays in our van, can’t wait. Thanks so much for sharing your amazing journey. Good luck with your new jobs
Thanks Stuart! Congratulations on your new caravan. The videos aren’t over - we have lots more to learn and share, just on some smaller trips for the time being. Who knows?!
Thanks for sharing your trip. How have you gone settling back into life not on the road?
Hi Charlotte. I’ve got to say it was lovely moving back into our house, and all that space!! We’re pretty well settled now (and even managed a couple of trips back to England since being back), but we are getting itchy feet again so we are planning on getting a new caravan/camper trailer/camper in the very near future to do some shorter trips (and explore the wonders Victoria to start)…… ☺️
Hey guys, loved seeing the video, with your final run home. We also watched you guys from the get go. Thanks so much for sharing your journey and providing so much information each week. You inspired us, and we were able to emulate some of your journey on our recent 5 month trip.
The finale with your photos was very touching, we can imagine how many photos you've got, haha 😄
Have you still got the Ranger & Crusader?
Hope the 'new' jobs have been good the past year.
Take care, Lyn & Corrie, Crusader buddies 🙂
Hey Lyn, great to hear from you again! So glad you’ve taken inspiration and been on your own exciting adventures! We still have the Ranger but have sold the Crusader. We’re looking for something smaller for shorter trips now and heading to the Melbourne Camping & Caravanning Show in a couple of weeks so hopefully we’ll have some more exciting news to come…..which we will of course share on RUclips. We love doing this channel so much (as long as we have interesting and relevant content to share!) Thanks again for all your support, Hannah and Chris 😊
Thanks Chris & Hannah.
WOW, you would have been sad to part with that awesome Crusader! You guys & Archie made such fantastic memories on your trip. We loved how you collected all those magnets & displayed them, you got to see so many great places.
Will be exciting looking for a new van, good luck 🙂
Thanks Lyn 😊
After travelling in your 20+ ft van, what would you get next, would you go O/R van, small van?
That is a very good question and a discussion that we are just starting to have at home. I think we may share our thought process on buying something new in a video, now that we have a much better idea of how to identify our requirements and make a good decision. Watch this space!