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Walkabout Straya #0: What did I get myself into?

Walkabout Straya #0: What did I get myself into?

October 2018 · 3 min read

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Screenshot from my Polarsteps app

I think that I qualify as "a spontaneous traveller". This means that when I get a travel urge and I have the time and the money to do it, I book it straight away. Travelling solo gives me that freedom. No need to plan with my friends, I just do what I like! And after many years, that became a bit of a habit.

But now, I feel that I went even further. Australia was never on my list to visit. This wasn't part of any plan at all! But right after I quit my job, I booked a flight to Australia for later that same week. All I knew was that I was taking 2 trains and had to drive a motorhome from Sydney to Cairns. The rest, I assumed, I would figure out along the way.

The plan kinda failed... You may have noticed that there haven't been the normal @r00sj3 travel updates lately. I just didn't have the time! I had to organise the rest of my trip along the way and to be honest, I had no clue what I wanted to see or do!

Often I thought about a friend of mine that spend a full year planning their trip around Australia. "If only I had done that, I would know what to visit!". My advance planning didn't go any further than buying a lonely planet to read on the train to figure out my trip... Can you guess how that worked out?

And so it happened that I spend 53 days in Australia where I often didn't know what my next few days would look like. I asked people on Facebook to help with a list of must-visits while I was already with one foot in my motorhome. The result? I threw away my initial "plan" and had to rethink everything. I drove to stay the night at @bearone, not knowing if I'd head north or south the next day. This was the ultimate "mindfulness". No time to worry about tomorrow, if you haven't figured out today yet!

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Nevertheless... it all worked out! While travelling, I was able to slowly come up with a plan and this made the second half of my trip a lot more laid back.

The coming weeks I'll be sharing parts of my chaotic trip with you. And as a bit of a teaser, I made an overview of some of the means of transportation that I used during my trip.

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