The Journey So Far
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Australia : Our First Weeks On The Road
One could be excused, having waited so long for our van, for wondering where to start now that the whole country was finally open to us. Funnily enough, there was still lots to do right here in and around Melbourne before we went anywhere else. Darryn ( my nephew) and...
Shipping A Vehicle To Australia – Review
Disclosure: This week’s blog is specifically written in order to share details, costs and the relevant processes of shipping a personally owned vehicle ( “POV” in shipping slang ) from another country to Australia.. I’ve thus split this blog into two parts: PART ONE -...
Reunited – And It Feels So Good !
Forgive me borrowing this week’s banner from the classic Peaches and Herb song, but after 84 days apart ( we last saw our rig on December 14 in Savannah), over a month of which the Talisman sat just waiting in Bass Strait, and an at times traumatic...
Return to Forbes
While we have patiently continued the waiting game in Temora, there has been some progress with our ship - read Postscript: Shipping Update ( at the end of the blog ) for the gripping details. Other than that, a pretty short blog along with a very slight change of...
Port of Melbourne: Update
Given the extraordinary delays in unloading the Talisman I decided to research what was happening in the nation’s ports - I came across an online article that pretty well spelled it all out ( see the link to it in the Postscript: Shipping Update section at the end of...
Melbourne – The Mornington Peninsula
To be honest, we’d been more than just a little disheartened this past week after the ongoing unloading delay outlined in the last blog ( I dare not even mention the “s” word - we just call it a “transportation delay” now, it’s so depressing ). It’s typical when...
