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fI vowed silently to myself (vowing out loud may have meant I would have had to do it) that I would do ‘my bit’ when living in the caravan. I decided internally that I would learn how this caravan operated as much as my husband. I talked sternly to myself about taking an interest in […]

‘Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink!’ This line from the ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ is sometimes how it seemed when we were in the caravan at first. There were taps in the camp to fill the barrel and plenty of water to top up the water tank under our bed but

As landings go it was exactly like a hard landing that Soviet and American space rockets experienced in many of their moon landings. In early flights these two countries had deliberately crash landed on the moon for experimental reasons. On our first relocation to another camp Peter crash landed the caravan but not by design,

Minimising the pressures of life does not come without some concessions on our part and some honing of skills by us both. For instance both of us realise some new points of reference are needed as we approach a new town. We both have honed our perception skills and are now able to identify a

We have been living in a caravan for over two years now. We have unshackled ourselves from the mortgage, the house, rates and suburbia, but are we free. Friends tell us we are living the dream. Surely this must mean we are free. Free from what though. We sometimes still have cranky neighbours. We still

I thought we were just showing our age. I thought we were just following the ‘grey nomad’ trend and trying to beat the empty nest syndrome. I thought we were just selling our house and moving into a caravan because we wanted a bit of an adventure. Actually we were becoming ‘new age’ and embracing