Australia is well known for its big things, larger than life objects scattered across the country, and our home state of Western Australia has its fair share of them. Here are images of those that we have visited, and others that are on our wish list. You gotta collect them all! Also, check out our …
2020 Best of Travel Review
The This Travel Life blog has been online for many years, but this year is the first time we have chosen to write a post reviewing our year of travel. Each year we try to hit the road as much as we can. Ironically, the year we decide to create our first Best of Travel …
Starting Afresh In 2021
Like most people around the world, we are looking forward to this coming year, hoping to get back to some form of normality, and for us regular travellers, some freedom to roam more broadly again. On New Year's Eve, we went to the beach to watch the final sunset of the year, hoping that it …
2020 Travel Blogging Year in Review
Unfortunately, we cannot ignore 2020, it did happen! This is our second annual review of our travels and the performance of our travel blog for 2020. We use this review to reflect on what we are doing with this site, comparing to how we have done previously (we did a similar review for the first …
It’s Not All Bad – the Wood’s Annual Letter 2020
What a crazy year this has been, for everyone I am sure! We have had some significant challenges this year, but we're trying to take the positive out of it, and the only way is up from here. Firstly Clare lost her job at the WACA, then our big planned half loop of Australia in …
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Time To Reward Yourself, And Travel in Style
2020 has been a struggle for many people in many different and sometimes tragic ways, though here in Western Australia we have been very fortunate to be able to still travel locally for holidays, due to our low case numbers (and there are photos from each of our 25 different campsites to prove it). We, …
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Christmas Gifts for Travelling Families 2020
2020 has been a struggle for many people in many different and sometimes tragic ways. The inability to travel has been one of the minor inconveniences given that people are losing their lives to this virus, and staying at home was one way to help stop the spread. Enough of looking back on the bad …
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The Jayco Hawk has Landed
The Places We Set Up Camp in 2020 In 2020 we bought our first van, a 2008 Jayco Hawk. Unfortunately, also in 2020, travelling and camping became highly restricted for obvious reasons. Considering that, we think we have done all right, setting up camp in 25 different locations over three trips of about two weeks …
Palio: A Race To Remember
With very limited travel happening around the world, we are left to reminisce about some of the highlights of our travels over the years, and places that we would one day love to return to. One of our best memories of our around the world trip in 2005 was a visit to the medieval town …
Rediscovering the Roadtrip
We were initially disappointed after the Western Australian state borders closed due to COVID and we were instructed to stay at home. Due to a fairly stubborn politician, our geographical isolation, and some luck, Western Australia has now enjoyed over six months of no coronavirus community transmission, and we have had the freedom to roam …