A bit of a different question, but how does everyone else manage intimacy while they’re away?
We have triple bunks at the rear and a master bed at the front. No curtains or anything.
Three kids aged 7,8 and 10.
For my husband a week or two off is not an option. He insists the kids have iPad time in the car while we hang out in the caravan.
Interested in others thoughts or routines?
So hey everyone, due to some shitty circumstances I'm currently looking to get a cheapish caravan and live in it full time on my future MIL's property.
I'm not going to be travelling in it, I'm blind and can't legally drive so it wouldn't end well if I tried lol.
Would it be ethical to live in it with my cat? I know it's not much space so I'm also looking into outdoor enclosure options. She's never really been outside before and is generally a pretty clingy cat.
Would I need to make any modifications to make it more suitable for her? Could I attach some floating shelf type things to the walls for her to climb/lay on?
My wife & I are about to head off for our first extended holiday (2 & half) months.
I will be turning off house electricity/ hot water system etc.
Just wondering what people do about their NBN, do you cancel account & on return fine another provider?
Thanks S.
Looking to buy a van, I’ve found a pretty good deal & I have the capacity/capability to modify it myself in just about all aspects.
We have a camper trailer currently but due to young family hasn’t been used much. I feel a caravan would be an easier setup & help us get back out more often. Partner isn’t entirely sold on the idea
Anyone regret buying a van too early in life with a young family (6month old)??
Plan is to start small with weekend trips, leading into longer trips & eventually I would like to do a lap in a Few years before kid(s) start school
Long post, sorry, but I wanted to actually explain where this came from rather than just drop a link and ask for feedback.
A few months ago we went away to Canowindra with some friends. Good trip, but the planning was a bit of a circus. We had Wikicamps and Airbnb open in different tabs trying to find somewhere to stay, Splitwise for who paid for what, a WhatsApp group that was 90% logistics and 10% someone sending a meme, TripAdvisor for food, and then Instagram afterwards to actually show everyone what we got up to. At one point two different people rang the same winery to book without realising, and our "bring food and drinks" plan turned into enough alcohol for a wedding because everyone made their own list and nobody compared notes. It was fine in the end, it always is, but it was way more work than it should have been for a few days away.
That trip is honestly the reason Ready to Roam exists. Not because I sat down and thought "I'm going to build an app," more because I got home and thought there has to be a less chaotic way to do this with other people.
Since then we've started planning our own Big Lap, leaving in October, and that's brought a whole different set of problems. What car do we even need for this. Which caravan, and what accessories are actually worth the money versus stuff that just sits unused. Where can we actually take the dog, because she's coming with us and a lot of the info on that is just scattered across old forum posts or whatever someone mentioned once in a Facebook group.
So that's what I'm trying to build, somewhere a group of friends, a family, or even just one person travelling solo, can plan a trip, sort out costs without anyone having to chase anyone else for money, find places to stay including dog friendly ones, and keep some kind of record of the trip that isn't just buried in someone's camera roll.
I want to be upfront, it's early and rough around the edges, I'm not pretending otherwise. I'm not trying to make money off anyone here either, I just want travelling around this country to be a bit less of a logistical headache for whoever's doing it, solo or in a group.
So genuinely, not as a sales pitch, I'd love to hear from people who actually do this:
What's the part of planning a trip with other people that always turns into a mess for you
If you've done a Big Lap or something similar, is there anything about the car or caravan or gear you wish someone had told you before you started
How do you actually find dog friendly spots at the moment
Has anything actually worked well for you, app or spreadsheet or otherwise, that I should just steal the idea from instead of reinventing it
However blunt, I'd rather hear it now than after we've built more on top of the wrong assumptions. Happy to share what we've built so far if anyone's curious, just ask.