Brit couple packs up old life to travel around Australia in van with no bathroom

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COVID was happening around the globe but not really in Australia, I said we should just buy a van and go around Australia.“We figured if COVID worsened, each state is so big that we’d still have a lot to explore and that we could find a home somewhere rural while we waited for COVID to ease.“But that never happened, our trip was never really impacted by COVID though, we are super blessed and lucky.”The borders into Western Australia closed right after they entered the state in late 2021.They see this as a blessing though, as there has been a lot for them to explore.

They’ve been in Western Australia for five months now but still have so much more to discover.Michael and Charlie have already seen a lot of the country, so far having travelled from Sydney up through Queensland, the Northern Territory as well as most of Western Australia.They’ve been fortunate enough to visit Byron Bay, Fraser Island, the Whitsundays, Fitzroy Island and the Great Barrier reef.The pair have crossed off Darwin, Kakadu National Park, The Ningaloo Reef, Broome, Karijini National Park and Perth of the list, and they’re now in the Margaret River region.Michael added: “Basically, there’s so much to see and we plan to see it all because we are writing the first first-hand LGBTQIA+ focused travel guide of Australia.”They still have to go through South Australia, southern Northern Territory, Victoria and Tasmania before returning to Sydney.If you are wanting to follow in their footsteps, you’ll be happy to know it didn’t cost them an arm and a leg to make their dream a reality.“We didn’t really plan how much we had to save to start and do the trip,” they revealed.“We basically just wanted enough money to buy the van and we knew we’d work along the way.