The adventure begins...sort of.

Welcome to the inaugural post of the Rapp family's blog! We aim to keep in touch with our family and friends through the wonders of the blogosphere, as we travel across and around this great country of ours over the next 5 months (here's hoping we can last that long!).

It has been a very busy few weeks preparing to embark on our adventure. I think if we understood how much preparation a trip like this required we may never have undertaken it! Surely it was just a matter of buying a caravan, hooking it up and heading off? HA! Many, many late nights of research (yes, of course by John) and many trips to car shops, caravan shops, camping shops, mechanics, GPS shops, phone shops, shoe shops, tyre shops, adventure shops and we were FINALLY... nearly ready to leave. We then had the not insignificant task of moving out of our house, and putting everything into storage. All except our gorgeous Henry, who is being fostered by his long suffering Grandma and Grandpa. (Don't fret, he's the dog).

So at last on Thursday this week (only two days behind schedule) John was ready to head off. Our plan is for him to drive the van and meet me and the kids in Uluru this Monday. A sage decision methinks. We are racing to beat the wet season in the top end, and knew that driving to Uluru with the kids would otherwise take weeks, not days (those wee stops really add up).


 So here we are next to the rig prior to John's eventual departure. Note the shiny, pristine condition of the new Land Cruiser? Let see how she looks in a month or two....

See you in Uluru!

xoxo