Friday, May 2, 2008

In the Begining

In the begining there was just a thought of a thought of an adventure. That was about two years ago now.
After many viewing and design changes Stephen and I selected the Trailcraft 640 Dirtroad caravan. This process took about a year , then the van took another 7 months.

We collected the van, named Turtle in November 2007 and the picture here is of our first trip to Dwellingup on a shake down trip. Fabulous time except that the shake down also shook off Stephen's bike of the back!

Anyway, this blog is being set up so that the trip around  Australia will be documented for all the see. I will put up some more pictures and details before we head off. I might even try to do a video!  The learning curve is getting bigger and bigger!!

8 comments:

Barb said...

Your first comment - as far as I can tel!!! Hope your adventure is great, interesting, fun and safe. Cheers, Barb

Alison and Stephen in Toby and Turtle said...

You are the first .... fantastic!!!

Derek said...

Well Floss you are on your way at last. Stay well and remember not to reverse to close to a wall otherwise those bikes will be gone again ! xx

Russ and Margy said...

Can we claim third place in the race to respond?
We have got you loud and clear. Just a bit disappointed you have not updated since we saw you last night. This trip needs to get going a bit faster!!!!
Hope Toby enjoys tugging the Turtle...and vice-versa!!!

Alison and Stephen in Toby and Turtle said...

Smutty Marg... Smutty!!!

Kristian said...

Well... I will be the first of your children to leave a comment! I'm very excited for you. Can't wait for Toby&Turtle to trundle down inner city Sydney streets on your way to visit me... Try not to hold up too much traffic :-)
Love!
K

Alison and Stephen in Toby and Turtle said...

Thanks Kristian, Neither can we!!!!!!!!

Jen Wren and the Hungarian said...

We'll be there to see you off with balloons and champers.
Cant wait to follow your adventures on the blog..now we have got on the ...thing!
and meet up with you at some amazing location.