Day: 322 Towns / Cities Visited: 218 Countries Visited: 31 Steps Taken Today: 13,733 Steps Taken Around the World: 5,094,553 I’d love to start this blog with a comment about how great a sleep we had, or even how dry and still the night had been. Alas, you guessed it…

Day: 321 Towns / Cities Visited: 217 Countries Visited: 31 Steps Taken Today: 14,621 Steps Taken Around the World: 5,080,820 Packing up a full tent set up when you haven’t had enough sleep is hard. Doing it when said tent is wet and the sky is threatening to dump more…

Day: 320 Towns / Cities Visited: 215 Countries Visited: 31 Steps Taken Today: 33,317 Steps Taken Around the World: 5,066,199 Waking up to rain in a tent is never a good omen, but even less so when your main plan for the day is to go on a 14km hike…

Day: 319 Towns / Cities Visited: 214 Countries Visited: 31 Steps Taken Today: 11,943 Steps Taken Around the World: 5,032,882 Another sleep interrupted by the wind flapping the fly on the tent, followed by another morning woken by the ear-piercing screech of cockatoos, left us less than enthused about having…

Day: 318 Towns / Cities Visited: 213 Countries Visited: 31 Steps Taken Today: 20,279 Steps Taken Around the World: 5,020,939 The soft patter of rain stirred me back into the world, my partner having slipped out earlier to brave the laundromat scene of Colac to get our washing dry. As…

Day: 317 Towns / Cities Visited: 212 Countries Visited: 31 Steps Taken Today: 21,991 Steps Taken Around the World: 5,000,660 Dawn broke, and we were drawn back into the waking world to the soothing sound of trucks rumbling along the highway. All right, so it wasn’t the most pleasant wake…

Day: 316 Towns / Cities Visited: 212 Countries Visited: 31 Steps Taken Today: 25,713 Steps Taken Around the World: 4,978,669 Given that I sleep to a soundtrack of thunderstorms and rain, you would think that the gentle patter that stirred me from my sleep would be welcome. Today though, given…

Day: 315 Towns / Cities Visited: 211 Countries Visited: 31 Steps Taken Today: 14,950 Steps Taken Around the World: 4,952,956 Another sunny morning awaited us, and we emerged to a bright new day, neither bright-eyed nor bushy-tailed, but eager to explore the world, nonetheless. First up on the agenda for…

Day: 314 Towns / Cities Visited: 211 Countries Visited: 31 Steps Taken Today: 20,692 Steps Taken Around the World: 4,938,006 For the first day since out travels had begun, we awoke to perfectly clear skies, the sun shining down to warm the front room of our tent, much to our…