By Road & Track

A story from our time on the road in 2019.

Artist, writer, traveller, explorer. Everett Ruess was all of these. He was also an inspiration to other writers who tried to make sense…

Some journeys are memorable because of good weather, good company or because something unanticipated happens. The journey I made in the…

EVENING is coming. The sea takes on the colour of the sky. There’s no wind to ruffle its surface. Emma is with her family. We gather on…

It stands by the kerb as testament to the durability of its engineering. It stands, too, as testament to how a vehicle becomes a symbol of…

Paul

The track goes on and up. It is rough and steep, rocky. It’s one of those tracks where you step on a rock and your foot slides out from…

DRIVE THE HIGHWAYS and you pass them. Stop at van parks and you encounter them. Grey nomads. The long distance voyagers of the motorways.

In his sixties, probably. Slim of build. Not tall. Married once.

It’s autumn, and we were still on the road…

I’ve mixed emotions when I look at this photo. It’s an image of becoming and going, the loss of the old and the hope of the new.

The long swells of a small shore break crash into foam as we walk the beach to the shop. The summery weather and clear sky have brought…

The situation regarding the spread of coronavirus in Australia continues to complicate life for vanlifers, grey nomads and others for whom…

It is ironic for us, who prefer foods produced in the region we are travelling through, that the only source of fruit and veges in many…

For fulltime vanlifers, do we travel or do we stay in one place for the duration of the coronavirus crisis? For those whose vanlife…

Before the east wind came, before the onshore turned the swell to chop, children and adults were out on the long, consistent waves of…

Three and a half kilometres. A short walk. Should be back in an hour and a half at most. Will the rain hold off long enough?

Would you stay in a tent in an old suburban orchard?

A modest station wagon, I noted. A white Toyota, and not a new model. A medium size vehicle of the type that carts people around the…

“That’s interesting”, I thought as the bike and trailer stopped at the start of the track to the beach. Then another whizzed by and pulled…

FOR Kate and Lewis, it’s the seasons which set direction and destination.

On the road we meet people. Those encounters might last only a few minutes, yet in that time people reveal things about themselves and…

“IT’S like this all the way”, said the man.

WHEN our goals are simple enough we have a better chance of making them real. That’s the message I took away from this couple living near…