I am a relative new member and like most, was a lurker for a long time before I actually joined. Because I wasn't "out there" travelling I felt that I wasn't eligible to join in. After reading a lot of posts and blogs, in particular Yeoeleven, I decided that I wanted to document not only my actual travels, but my commitment to travel. We don't just wake up one morning and decide to hit the road indefinitely. There is a lot of thought that goes into getting to that stage and that is what I wanted to include in "my story". Once I put an actual date on my intended travel, I felt I had a legitimate sense of belonging in the Grey Nomad world. Whilst to many I might be seen as still in the "dreaming" stage, to me, my dreams are my reality and come 4th July 2020, I WILL be out there living the dream.
I am now counting down until D Day (Departure Day). 1389 days to go.
It's not about the Destination. It's not even about the Journey. It's about having the guts to go in the first place.
rayaroundoz - enjoyed your blog. My husband did post office relief for 10 years back in the 70's. Enjoy your planning and Rhonda. Cheers.
newhorizons said
11:08 AM Sep 15, 2016
Ray, Neil & Raine
Thanks for sharing your blogs. I also enjoy reading about people' travels and seeing the photos. It's an inspiration to plan for the next trip.
Dave+Addy said
11:22 AM Sep 15, 2016
We're a British couple who retired early, sold up and are currently travelling around Asia. In a couple of weeks we'll be picking up our camper in Queensland and beginning our exploration of Australia - Can't wait
Our blog is: adrienne4dave.wordpress.com
Chris61 said
08:44 PM Sep 15, 2016
Hi all, Chris here, I have been blogging using Wordpress since March 2015. I have backdated my blog back to approx 17th June 2011 when Dianne and I took delivery of an Evergreen Ultima 5th Wheeler, 3 days after my 50th birthday. Some people buy a sportscar when they go a mid life crisis, I bought a 5th wheeler. Anyway I thought I should document my travels, while I can still remember them.
Feel free to have a look at some of our travels, don't be afraid to leave a comment or even explore some of the extra pages that I dabble with when the mood motivates me.
Another blog that I post in is for the Devil Wheelers Tasmania, a chapter of the CMCA for 5th wheelers but welcomes everyone with an interest in the Grey Nomad lifestyle (you don't even have to be grey). The link is below. devilwheelerstasmania.wordpress.com/
-- Edited by Chris61 on Thursday 15th of September 2016 08:45:19 PM
Bushpie said
06:04 PM Sep 21, 2016
Great idea Cindy........
I have read some of Niel and Raines but like how it is now easy to access
Looking forward to reading Rays adventures now and like he I am in countdown mode with a similar time frame......probably depart in May 2020.............cant wait.......
Hmmmmmm but blogging ........yeah maybe I will get one going
Looking forward to a few more members to put up their links
rayjudesmith said
08:32 PM Sep 25, 2016
Hi, Ray and Jude here. We are originally from Western Australia but have sold up and now live permanently in our Avida Sapphire caravan and are currently touring Tasmania.
We love reading about other people's travels or plans for travel so feel free to check out our blog here at smiffstraveloz.wordpress.com
Cheers
Dunmowin said
09:29 PM Sep 25, 2016
rayjudesmith wrote:
Hi, Ray and Jude here. We are originally from Western Australia but have sold up and now live permanently in our Avida Sapphire caravan and are currently touring Tasmania.
We love reading about other people's travels or plans for travel so feel free to check out our blog here at smiffstraveloz.wordpress.com
Cheers
Thanks Ray and Jude, interesting reading. Your stories about Tasmania took me back to our visit 12 months ago.
Daveo85 said
07:02 PM Oct 4, 2016
As we don't start our travel till Jan 2017 our don't hold much but am working on getting up and running so
don't have worry about doing it later.
The link is in our Signature web address
Dave & Ellen
lizard said
01:16 PM Nov 29, 2016
Haven't added to this , even thugh still travelling !!
http://boucautsonpatrol.blogspot.com.au/
Daveo85 said
09:56 AM Nov 30, 2016
Well, have retired now so the blog will start to get up a head of steam now, will have the boring info about
what it takes to get it all done and dusted before we leave. I am glad I started doing this some time ago as its a big task
and to say it can get to you if you don't keep a stable head and just keep going, and see what will be at the end of all the
issues that will get in the way.
Only have 5 weeks till I hook up the van and move along the road so not much time left.
Dave
the rocket said
03:41 PM Feb 6, 2017
I'm in
Gregnsue said
10:14 PM Jul 19, 2017
We've been travelling now for almost five years and started this blog not just for family and friends to keep up with us but also as a diary for ourselves.
notsogreynomads.wordpress.com
Gregnsue said
02:02 PM Jan 17, 2018
Hi there, this is our blog that we've been writing for 5 years of travelling now. We started this as an update for family and friends as well as a diary for ourselves on where we've been. Cheers Gregnsue https://notsogreynomads.wordpress.com
MargaretYork said
09:16 AM Nov 27, 2018
Hello
We're having a break whilst we stay with our son and daughter in law in Queensland
Our blog can be found here :-
YorksinAustralia.wordpress.com
soundadventurer said
05:28 PM Dec 1, 2019
My husband and I have been cruising around this amazing country for 14 months with a camper trailer. We kind-of cheat, as I am working as we go, with accommodation provided We have managed to see an amazing amount of country, from Mt Isa to Tasmania. I have light-heartedly documented our travels and tribulations from the start in my blog, A Sound Adventure.
Hi, I have been posting links to our blog on this forum for a while now, but have realised that I'd never posted an introduction in this thread.
Time to make amends.
We are Cuppa & MrsTea, both now in our mid 60's & travelling full-time since mid 2017.
We also travelled around Australia in 2008/9 , completing a 45,000km figure 8 over 18 months in a 7 metre bus I converted to a motorhome
I began blogging way back in around 2001 to document the bus build & then the subsequent 'Big Trip'
A blogging hiatus followed during the years when we did what we had to do to make our dream of 'travelling without time limit' come to fruition.
Dedication to our dream finally paid off & we 'got back on the road' in 2017 which we accompanied with the beginning of a new blog & have been regularly adding to it ever since as we travel around this wonderful country slowly.
Access to the older blog can still be found via links in the early posts of our current blog 'A Nomadic Life'.
The older one may be of interest, but I think my writing & photographic skills have improved a bit since then making it look a little dated. It is what it is - our record of the best thing we had ever done & an ongoing repository of experiences of places that many still visit or aspire to visit on their 'Big Laps'.
Today our current blog also serves as our personal record, but I hope too that it manages to put our readers alongside us & to experience, at least in some small way, what we experience. Feedback suggests we often succeed in doing this - but judge for yourself.
A word of warning, our blog is unlike many where dramatic or glitzy headlines designed to attract are followed up with superficial 2 minute reads. That's for the commercialised blogs where the primary aim is to earn money per click, or to satisfy sponsors - the realm of the 'influencers'. That is a different world of blogging which is of no interest to us & will always remain so.
We hope you might give us a look, but more, we hope you will enjoy what you find & perhaps continue to be a part of the modest sized community who 'travel with us'.
Regards
Cuppa.
-- Edited by Cuppa on Tuesday 6th of September 2022 09:17:09 AM
-- Edited by Cuppa on Tuesday 6th of September 2022 09:24:59 AM
Do you have a blog you'd like to share? Please include links to your blogs (or new posts) in this string.
Disclaimer: please note that the Grey Nomads forum does not have any input or control over the content of remotely hosted blogs.
I try to update my web page every month.
www.mechanisedswaggies.com
I am a relative new member and like most, was a lurker for a long time before I actually joined. Because I wasn't "out there" travelling I felt that I wasn't eligible to join in. After reading a lot of posts and blogs, in particular Yeoeleven, I decided that I wanted to document not only my actual travels, but my commitment to travel. We don't just wake up one morning and decide to hit the road indefinitely. There is a lot of thought that goes into getting to that stage and that is what I wanted to include in "my story". Once I put an actual date on my intended travel, I felt I had a legitimate sense of belonging in the Grey Nomad world. Whilst to many I might be seen as still in the "dreaming" stage, to me, my dreams are my reality and come 4th July 2020, I WILL be out there living the dream.
I am now counting down until D Day (Departure Day). 1389 days to go.
It's not about the Destination. It's not even about the Journey. It's about having the guts to go in the first place.
My site is rayaroundoz.wordpress.com
Safe Travels.
Thanks for sharing your blogs. I also enjoy reading about people' travels and seeing the photos. It's an inspiration to plan for the next trip.
We're a British couple who retired early, sold up and are currently travelling around Asia. In a couple of weeks we'll be picking up our camper in Queensland and beginning our exploration of Australia - Can't wait
Our blog is: adrienne4dave.wordpress.com
Hi all, Chris here, I have been blogging using Wordpress since March 2015. I have backdated my blog back to approx 17th June 2011 when Dianne and I took delivery of an Evergreen Ultima 5th Wheeler, 3 days after my 50th birthday. Some people buy a sportscar when they go a mid life crisis, I bought a 5th wheeler. Anyway I thought I should document my travels, while I can still remember them.
The link to the blog is,
chrisanddiannesultimaadventure.wordpress.com/
Feel free to have a look at some of our travels, don't be afraid to leave a comment or even explore some of the extra pages that I dabble with when the mood motivates me.
Another blog that I post in is for the Devil Wheelers Tasmania, a chapter of the CMCA for 5th wheelers but welcomes everyone with an interest in the Grey Nomad lifestyle (you don't even have to be grey). The link is below.
devilwheelerstasmania.wordpress.com/
-- Edited by Chris61 on Thursday 15th of September 2016 08:45:19 PM
I have read some of Niel and Raines but like how it is now easy to access
Looking forward to reading Rays adventures now and like he I am in countdown mode with a similar time frame......probably depart in May 2020.............cant wait.......
Hmmmmmm but blogging ........yeah maybe I will get one going
Looking forward to a few more members to put up their links
We love reading about other people's travels or plans for travel so feel free to check out our blog here at smiffstraveloz.wordpress.com
Cheers
Thanks Ray and Jude, interesting reading. Your stories about Tasmania took me back to our visit 12 months ago.
don't have worry about doing it later.
The link is in our Signature web address
Dave & Ellen
Haven't added to this , even thugh still travelling !!
http://boucautsonpatrol.blogspot.com.au/
Well, have retired now so the blog will start to get up a head of steam now, will have the boring info about
what it takes to get it all done and dusted before we leave. I am glad I started doing this some time ago as its a big task
and to say it can get to you if you don't keep a stable head and just keep going, and see what will be at the end of all the
issues that will get in the way.
Only have 5 weeks till I hook up the van and move along the road so not much time left.
Dave
I'm in
We've been travelling now for almost five years and started this blog not just for family and friends to keep up with us but also as a diary for ourselves.
notsogreynomads.wordpress.com
Hello
We're having a break whilst we stay with our son and daughter in law in Queensland
Our blog can be found here :-
YorksinAustralia.wordpress.com
My husband and I have been cruising around this amazing country for 14 months with a camper trailer. We kind-of cheat, as I am working as we go, with accommodation provided We have managed to see an amazing amount of country, from Mt Isa to Tasmania. I have light-heartedly documented our travels and tribulations from the start in my blog, A Sound Adventure.
https://asoundadventure.wordpress.com/
-- Edited by soundadventurer on Sunday 1st of December 2019 05:38:29 PM
-- Edited by soundadventurer on Monday 2nd of December 2019 06:53:36 AM
I'll join the list too! If anyone is interested, feel free to check out my site: Outdoor Explorer
I write about camping and everything to do with Australia's great outdoors!
Cheers
Please join me on
www.youtube.com/watch
-- Edited by Scott Chapman on Sunday 29th of August 2021 12:31:55 PM
Hi, I have been posting links to our blog on this forum for a while now, but have realised that I'd never posted an introduction in this thread.
Time to make amends.
We are Cuppa & MrsTea, both now in our mid 60's & travelling full-time since mid 2017.
We also travelled around Australia in 2008/9 , completing a 45,000km figure 8 over 18 months in a 7 metre bus I converted to a motorhome
I began blogging way back in around 2001 to document the bus build & then the subsequent 'Big Trip'
A blogging hiatus followed during the years when we did what we had to do to make our dream of 'travelling without time limit' come to fruition.
Dedication to our dream finally paid off & we 'got back on the road' in 2017 which we accompanied with the beginning of a new blog & have been regularly adding to it ever since as we travel around this wonderful country slowly.
Access to the older blog can still be found via links in the early posts of our current blog 'A Nomadic Life'.
The older one may be of interest, but I think my writing & photographic skills have improved a bit since then making it look a little dated. It is what it is - our record of the best thing we had ever done & an ongoing repository of experiences of places that many still visit or aspire to visit on their 'Big Laps'.
Today our current blog also serves as our personal record, but I hope too that it manages to put our readers alongside us & to experience, at least in some small way, what we experience. Feedback suggests we often succeed in doing this - but judge for yourself.
A word of warning, our blog is unlike many where dramatic or glitzy headlines designed to attract are followed up with superficial 2 minute reads. That's for the commercialised blogs where the primary aim is to earn money per click, or to satisfy sponsors - the realm of the 'influencers'. That is a different world of blogging which is of no interest to us & will always remain so.
We hope you might give us a look, but more, we hope you will enjoy what you find & perhaps continue to be a part of the modest sized community who 'travel with us'.
Regards
Cuppa.
-- Edited by Cuppa on Tuesday 6th of September 2022 09:17:09 AM
-- Edited by Cuppa on Tuesday 6th of September 2022 09:24:59 AM