Category: Movement
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Homemade Wanderlust.
Jessica ‘Dixie’ Mills is an avid hiker/backpacker living in the USA. In 2015 she successfully completed a thru hike of the Appalachian Trail that runs a total of 3,500 kms up the east side of the U.S. from Georgia in the South to Maine in the north. During that hike she began documenting her journey…
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Why Ripley?
Why do we call our camper van Ripley? Well, its simple really. I have been avidly following the YouTube travels of Jorge and Jessica in their 1986 Volkswagen Vanagon Syncro for a while now. They named their kick-butt beast Ripley, and although this serious 4WD adventure machine is on a totally different foodchain to our…
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Sunshine Beach trip.
Up early for a shakedown trip to stay a few nights at Sunshine Bay. One thing about driving a camper van, is that it teaches you to slow down a little and enjoy the journey. As you climb and descend and wind your way along the lesser roads you inevitably collect a tail of cars…
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Lesson on the Clyde.
Yes. I think I can make this. Astride a small wooden seat beside the Clyde river, I sat squinting into the weather radar app on my iPhone. Performing a complex mental trajectory plotting of exactly where my own route would be transected by the rather intimidating lava-lamp of red and yellow pixels moving from left…
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