Who? Why? Where?

Hello there!

Clare, Mat, Heidi and Emma here.

We are a family of four who love to travel and experience the world, as much as we can, whilst holding down jobs, running a business, attending kinder and just generally living in Melbourne, Australia.

Mat works for a construction company full time, with long service leave up his sleeve, we’re in a good position to do some extended trips. Heidi is four years old and goes to kinder, and Emma is 2 years old and doesn’t yet. I, Clare, am studying my Masters in Primary Education online and have a jewellery business, Clare Quinlan jewellery – which doesn’t really do much, but the designs are all mine and I handmake everything, and I love it when they do come in (its really more like a ‘side hustle’ as they say) and I have the kids full time when they’re not at kinder. We also have James, Mat’s 10 year old son, who is at school and will hopefully be joining us on an adventure soon.

So we currently live in Melbourne, and over the last few years have lived in Port Macquarie (where the girls were born), Sydney, Byron Bay and Coffs Harbour, Adelaide – thanks to work. I used to work in construction also with Mat, so we moved a lot together – mostly in NSW.

In 2017 and March/April 2019 we hired a motorhome and travelled around the South Island, New Zealand. And LOVED it! So easy, so fun. The perfect way to travel around with a young family in our opinion.

And since our last trip in NZ, we’ve been discussing the idea of getting a caravan and road tripping around Australia. We thought that once I qualified as a teacher I could homeschool the girls (turns out you can do that regardless of whether you’re a teacher or not). And it would be an amazing experience for them and us and something we would all enjoy and remember. And Australia is an amazing country in which we live!

Well, we decided to bring it forward a few years. The girls don’t go to school yet, Im studying online so can do it from anywhere, and Im not working, and Mat has Long Service leave that he needs to take. So all the dots are pointing to us having some adventures now.

And here we are… a woman, a man, two girls, a 4WD and a caravan… and one giant, amazing, beautiful country to explore.
Let the adventures begin….