Hi y’all

So we have decided that the expedition / camper is off the list. The girls are a couple of years older now from when I first posted this in 2019 and will be three or a bit more by the time covid lets us start.

As turbo suggests, teenage girls need space and that would not be likely in such a vehicle unless its one of those giant six wheel things that are too heavy for my liking.

So it is down to a vehicle that is primarily for transport or just backpacking. Either way we intend to use airbnb style places for much of the time, using monthly bookings to force me into staying in one spot and experiencing as much as we can. I have a habit of pushing on and I know that we miss a lot of good stuff.

Staying in airbnb’s will also give the girls some space to retreat to, as well as us. Due to covid we have homeschooled the girls on and off over the past two years, as well as a German international student who was with us for six months at the beginning of the pandemic, and coped with it well. The older girls were finished their school work over about 3-4hrs which left the afternoon for other activities.

I think we will try and replicate this as we go.

I have another 12 months before we can go I think, I have a major surgery to attend to so I am kinda thinking that I might start preparing a 4wd over the next months so that it is set up. Can use it in the meantime now that our country is opening up a bit and as a shakedown. I can always leave it here and head off backpacking first, we do want to visit asia / Japan / S Korea, and then head back and grab it if we want it.

Anyways, thanks for your input.