On Purpose & Off Track

05/11/2025

03/11/2025

Doesn't matter how excited you are to see something or how long it takes to drag your family & your whole house (literally) to get there to see it, if it doesn't wanna play the game, it doesn't wanna play the game.

Unfortunately this pretty pink lake just wasn't feeling pink today.

So much of travelling full time can be a bit this way. Reality just doesn't always love up to expectations. But it doesn't have to make it any less magical, if you always look for a miracle, and always try to find something to be grateful for.

This will forever be a funny memory of the time we drove alllllll the way to see the most beautiful pink lake ever, and just got a fairly ordinary lake, on a fairly ordinary day 😂

03/11/2025

4 months on the road and so far we've averaged $8895. We have done a LOT of vehicle maintenance that we just didn't get around to in the mad rush before we left, and we've also paid for flights for our baby girl to go home to Brisbane. October was one of our smaller months where we didn't do a heap of driving, we were mostly in and around Adelaide.

29/10/2025

WHERE WE STAYED

Lochiel Footy Field FREE - Check out Bumbunga Pink Lake.

Port Augusta RV park $10/night - last big supermarkets for a while - stock up! Other than that we keen to leave Port Augusta as it had a bit of a weird vibe.

Nooltana Creek FREE - Absolutely lovely little free camp on the side of the highway.

Mt Little Station $50/night - Planned to stay 2 but ended up staying 4 as we were all having a ball! Feeding the baby animals daily was an absolute highlight.

Parachilna Gorge FREE- this place was dusty as hell and had sooooooo many flies, but it was still one of my absolute favorites. It just felt really amazing and watching the full moon rise over the gorge really took my breath away. It was a beautiful drive all through this area.

Leigh Creek Caravan Park $20/night - strange but interesting experience in this once booming, now abandoned mining town. The IGA here was well priced and had a good range so another good spot to stock up on some groceries. We saw at the local tavern that Zac Effron stayed there while filming Gold, so we decided to watch it. Don't. It was an awful movie and we deeply regret letting our 8yo watch it as he wouldn't sleep in his own bed for 3 days. Bad parenting choice.

Curdimurka Siding FREE - this was our first camp on the Oodnadatta and it was Dan's favourite. The sunset was pretty special, but boy were the prickles and flies intense! It was behind a gate on private property but was easy to access, just follow the signs.

Box Creek Camp FREE - just a little free camp on the side of the road, very peaceful.

Algebuckina Bridge FREE - this place was lovely, lots of people stop in for a visit.

Oodnadatta Pink Roadhouse $20/night - look it was dusty as hell but we needed water, and it was just as cheap to pay for a night here and fill up, as it was to pay for just the water.

THINGS TO KNOW:
It's hard to get water, Oodnadatta was the only place we could get it!

The flies suck. You will have to buy flynets. Get used to it.

CONTINUED IN COMMENTS

27/10/2025

Most of them weren’t anti-anything.
They were parents who did what they were told.
They lined up, trusted the experts, and followed the rules — until their child got sick.

That’s when they started digging.
Reading ingredient lists.
Looking for the double-blind placebo studies.
Exploring the actual risks of diseases like measles and polio.
Asking why a newborn needed protection from a sexually transmitted infection.

And what they found… didn’t add up.

Then came the harder part — the backlash.
They asked questions and were shut down.
They were called names, ridiculed, dismissed as crazy.
All while caring for a sick child and trying to process the grief of realizing that what they once believed was “science” might have been marketing.

I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve been told my child’s symptoms were “normal” or “just coincidence.”
Even with tests showing aluminum levels four times higher than what’s considered safe for an adult — in an infant.

Maybe my baby just wore a tin foil hat for too long? 🤷‍♀️

21/10/2025

We asked chatgpt to give us a list of "which partner" questions and it was so much damn fun!