After our 3,000km trip from Darwin to Broome in August 2018 we’re so transfixed by the Australian landscape we decide to do what thousands of Australian retirees do: buy a caravan and tour Australia.
The official, and rather pejorative, term for road trippers is “grey nomads” and as more baby boomers retire and enjoy cashed up superannuation there are more and more on the road. Some have sold up everything and live permanently on the road. Others, particularly those in the southern states, just head north over the winter.
It is difficult to find accurate data, but combined camper-van and caravan registrations in the year ending 2016 were 615,301. Yet not all of these travellers are retirees: on our trip last year we met young families where the parents had taken the kids out of school for anything from six months to a year. There are also people who just decide to take a year out, rent their houses out and hit the road.
Us? Well, we flew over to Australia and bought a caravan in January. We’ve bought a Toyota Landcruiser sight unseen – but for the price we paid it better be good! We’ve booked flights to pick everything up on 30 March. The first few weeks we will be learning to caravan. It should be fun!
Always thought in my younger days Aussie was too close for an adventure, later in life would be better. It’s time now! Looking forward to our adventure XXX
I absolutely loathe caravans Bev but because it’s you and Scott I will follow your adventures.
Much love
“Grey nomads”. As Joy says (who should know) growing old is inevitable; going grey is a lifestyle choice….
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Yes, for anyone looking for my other blog it is agoodsetofknives.com NOT agoodsetofknoves 🤣
Ian says; I give ya two weeks 😂
Well I’ve already got a laugh out of this. When I went to subscribe, my browser prompted that someone has already subscribed as
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It wasn’t me…
It must be someone else with grey hair.
Like the road sign -remember to also watch out for camels!
Who would have believed it! You guys caravanning!! We plan to do same in a couple of years. Atm we are still busy doing our swaps with other motor homers in Europe and USA.