Freedom
is too small a word for what is happening, I like to think of something along
the likes of Epic to describe where we are now. After 3 years back in NSW it is
time to start adventure again and to put our dreams into reality.
During the latest outbreak of Covid19, I was stood down without pay from a company I have worked for, for the last 19 years. This made me really start to question “what the hell I was doing with my life." It was so easy to be discarded in the name of an pandemic and it made we wonder why I had worked so hard to make success for others only to be dumped at the first sign of
distress in the economy. Taking the option of redundancy, I decided to
take an early retirement and plan for the trips that both Sharon and I have been
dreaming of for years but never took the courage to step out and start the
process. This incident was the perfect opportunity for us to seize the moment
and take the first step.
Our
first escape is called the Broken Hill trip which is a round trip in our newly
acquired second-hand caravan and we will be taking our much-loved female
Labrador Gemma Rose along for the ride.
This is a three-week journey and will be a “Toe in the water” for our much longer twelve-month trip next year where we plan to rent out our home and take off around Australia to forget about life for a while.
We are both getting
very excited now as the packing has commenced and we have planned out all our
stays including an endless list of things to see and do starting with a visit
to Sharon’s brother in Port Macquarie, then Tamworth, Gilgandra, Cobar, the
breathtaking Mendinie Lakes now in flood, historic Broken Hill, Hermidale, Mudgee and then
home to the Blue Mountains.
We leave on the 24th of November and even though the weather stinks right now the thought of getting away is too strong. I will be posting updates along with photographs and videos of our adventure so stay tuned.👀
