We struggled with how to start this blog and what would be an exciting first post, and in the end we decided we would introduce you to who we are, why we are here and to use this post to serve as our ‘About us’.
So who are we…
We are a couple from Newcastle, Australia. We are childhood sweethearts who after many years apart have reunited for an exciting journey together.
I am Claire, who along with my day job as a Customer Service Representative, am an artist at www.facebook.com/claireedwardsart. My partner Shane has a day job as a IT Operations Analyst and is a photographer at www.shanepatmorephotography.com.au. We are busy people who just don’t have the time to do all the things we love.
After spending two weeks in Japan in 2017, we decided that working 9-5 wasn’t enough for us, that the world has so much to offer, and we wanted to do everything we could to experience it. Within a week of returning home we had booked two more trips away, one to Bali and one to China, but this still wasn’t enough.
After wondering how/where to start we concluded that there was so much to see and do right here in Australia and that we should start here and try to see it all.
To do this, we have decided to buy and do a school bus conversion and take our lives on the road. This is so that we have the best chance to go where we want and not be restricted by time or work. We are going to document our process along the way for the many like minded people out there hoping to escape the daily grind as well. By no means are we experts… in fact we have little to no experience in this kind of field at all. However, we are excellent at researching and are more than willing just to give things a go.
We forgot to mention as well that it is not just us…. it is also our beautiful fur friends and a bird. Things will get very interesting!
We wanted to start a bus conversion blog to be able to track our progress towards our goal of location independence and to chronicle all our adventures with our bus conversion. We hope that in doing this, we may be able to make things just a little easier for anyone hoping to embark on a similar adventure. This is a huge personal journey for both of us, and we want to be able to share it with you.
In saying that, I will leave it there.
