About Us

THIS TRAVEL LIFE is a site by Rob and Clare Wood, documenting our travels around Australia and around the world with our kids Olive, Jetson and Casper.

We Travel

As a couple, we began our travel adventures with a month-long trip to Vietnam in 2001, and not long afterward started to save and plan for a year travelling around the world. In 2005-6 we spent a year travelling through Central America, USA, UK, Europe, India and South-East Asia. In 2008 we hit the road again, this time travelling around Australia, completing a year-long road trip in a campervan with our one-year-old.

Since then, we have not really stopped. There have been short trips to Malaysia in 2010 and Japan in 2011 with our two kids Olive and Jetson. In 2012 Casper joined us when we stayed in Bali for a month. In 2013 we spent two weeks in China.

Instead of these short trips overseas, we decided it was time to live in another country. In 2014-2015 we moved the family to Bali in Indonesia. You can read all about it on our Bali blog posts. It was a busy 2014 – as well as exploring Bali and nearby islands, we also made a side trip to Singapore and spent a couple of weeks visiting the Philippines, USA and Canada. See more of our journey timeline, and photos of us in every country we have visited.

See more of our journeys and future travel plans, which include where we have been, what we did and what we thought of those places, and where else we would like to go one day. There are also some of our travel photos and we have made some fun top-10s from our travel adventures.

We currently living in Perth Australia while planning our next adventures. Where to next? Well, we have some travel plans, but right now our overseas travel is on hold like the rest of the world while we wait out this virus thing. We now need to plan how we can continue our recently aborted trip taking the kids exploring the outback of Australia.

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You should also check out our other travel website: The Travel Almanac

Who Are We

Rob – the planner, web designer, and tour guide

Other interests: geocaching, volunteering

Countries visited: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Cambodia, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Costa Rica, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Swaziland, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, UK, USA, Vatican City, Vietnam (total=45).

Clare – the foodie

Countries visited: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Cambodia, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Costa Rica, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Swaziland, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, UK, USA, Vatican City, Vietnam (total=44).

Olive – the historian and photographer

Countries visited: Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, France, Greece, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Philippines, Portugal, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Thailand, UK, USA, Vatican City, Vietnam (total=25).

Jetson – the joker

Countries visited: Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, France, Greece, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Philippines, Portugal, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Thailand, USA, Vatican City, Vietnam (total=24).

Casper – the creative

Countries visited: Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, France, Greece, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Philippines, Portugal, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Thailand, UK, USA, Vatican City, Vietnam (total=24).