Three days to go. Thank goodness my edits are up to date. Packing is scattered throughout the house

 So the packing has begun in earnest. How many clothes does one need when going to the warm tropics, the winter outback (for more astrophotography), a tropical wedding and a writer's festival in June?

I am going to have to be ruthless, methinks!

I'm looking forward to the clear skies of the outback to practice my astrophotogaphy.

However before we get there, back to the packing problem. The boy raised his eyebrows at the boxes of books but when there is advertising on the  back of the caravan spare tyre, and the side of the ute, it's like travelling with a mobile book store!

So clothes or books? A problem to solve. Stay posted!

For those of you who have followed our travels over the past eight years of research and writing, you've seen us in a few different mobile homes.

One:  the trusty (basic and sort of functional) camper trailer, that took us to Kakadu, Daintree, the Kimberleys and Undara for researching four books

Two: The first caravan fell to bits around us and we didn't even take it off road! Traded in very quickly!

Three: we upgraded to our first FABULOUS Titanium caravan and this van took us did take us off the road and off the grid east of Alice Springs (for my 2022 book research) She passed with flying colours but we decided for future trips, we would go semi-off road so ... see number 4 below

Four: Our home for the next four months... a comfortable home away from home. Who knows where we'll end up!

Stay posted as the next three days fly past, the excitement builds and we leave on our adventure north.