Pack the snacks, organise your playlists, and don’t forget to bring a jumper – today is the first day of Spring and the start of our Springtime Road Trip! And guess what – you’re invited along on our adventure! So, welcome! Join us over the next three weeks as we head to where I hear…

Mount Coot-tha, Queensland Wake up Willow, there’s no time for cat naps this morning. Today we are going on a real adventure. No, you can snooze later. Yes, Steph is coming. Get ready, we are leaving now! Cat and Carry This is Willow’s ‘Adventure Bag’. Okay, it’s actually a baby bag I found at Target…

It’s Saturday afternoon and the old orchard has been freshly mown. Willow jumps out of the van having awoken from her nap, surveys the scene, then walks up with tail high. By an old lemon tree that once formed a row, she sits. Across the old orchard, the even older blue gums stand. Their branches…

There’s one thing I didn’t expect to find when I left Tasmania back in 2015 with my cat Willow on the road trip of a life time. But in 2016 in Perth, Western Australia, I found Stephanie. She was quick to embrace my unusual living situation, and of course little Willow. Since then, the three…

Listen to the full podcast here! We are so very proud to be this week’s guest on the Catexplorer podcast. Join us as I chat to Hasara and Daniel about how Willow went from house cat to catexplorer, travelling Australia with me in our van. We talk about how I made preparations for a life…

On a mild winter’s afternoon we were all settled in at our old orchard campsite near Brisbane. Once a lemon grove, now the perfect location to give Willow some outdoor time on the days Steph is busy studying in Brisbane. [vcm_short_ad] I grabbed my camera and walked around the van to find Willow lying in…

On our way up to the Dorrigo Plateau, Steph, Willow, and I found ourselves at a park by the Nymboida River. The mowed lawns of Cartmill Park offered many places to pull up the van and enjoy the scenery. We parked next to the bridge in the shade of some Oak trees. [vcm_short_ad] The best…

Our plan of escaping the Brisbane heat had brought us to Northern NSW and its magnificent beaches – but the days were still scorching. So, from Grafton, Steph, Willow, and I headed up the Great Dividing Range on our way to a little campsite by a river that I just knew would give us the…

A narrow strip of land connects the Tasman peninsular to the rest of Tasmania. In the 1800s, it was once guarded by a chain of dogs thwarting the escape of any convict who dared abscond from the hellish conditions of the Port Arthur penal settlement. [vcm_short_ad] These days, the area is a shack community known…