Kim: I was paddling with all my strength. I had pushed myself to the end of the rolling red cliffs and although my wind navigation was not that of a fine sailor, I could feel from the current that if I didn’t turn my board soon my next stop may be South Africa. The foamy […]
Dave: I am mindful from the gracious feedback that Kim has received about the blog that many who are digitally dropping in on our adventure do so primarily to read the sage and honest mothering and life advice that my dearly beloved offers in her every post. This probably means that I will be at […]
Kim: Fifteen years ago, when we were both shy of twenty years old, Dave and I made a sweet but maybe somewhat naive list of things we valued most in our relationship. We came across the random piece of paper in a cardboard box of ‘treasure junk’ a few months ago when cleaning out one […]
Kim: It is pouring with rain. We are on Day 2 of an 800+ kilometre drive from Exmouth to Monkey Mia. We have stopped for the night at the small port-town of Carnarvon because Alice has been screaming for hours in the car. Dave and I have just gotten into our first argument of […]
Dave: In seeking to persuade me to write a trip blog (not that she has ever had much difficulty in persuading me of anything), Kim showed me a surprising number of perpetually footloose young Australian families who have amassed extraordinary coverage in the social media universe. However, one thing that immediately struck me, in some […]
Kim: Dave and I have tried to not let ‘traditional’ roles define our relationship. During our first year of marriage as twenty-two year olds living in Southern California, I would often drive home from work late in the evening only to find Dave, having spotlessly cleaned the house and made the meals, reclining in the […]
Kim: I think that I relaxed more today than I have over the past thirty-four years combined. I mean relax in the restorative way that I have only heard people describe but not ever experienced (not even at the day spa). While it may be possible that such a deep sense of restoration and peace […]
Dave: I have always been a bit of a softy when it comes to crying. At an early stage of our courtship, Kim chose to give me the benefit of the doubt (‘he must just be sensitive’) when she spotted a few glistening streaks rolling down my cheeks at the climactic crescendo of the family […]
Kim: Excitrified…a continually swinging emotional pendulum between excited and terrified. Excitrified is a verb used to describe an emotion often felt by those experiencing change or something new. Excitrification is often caused by fear of the unknown. I first heard this word used some years ago to describe a major life change, and its impact […]
Dave: I am writing this at the end of the third day of the drive from Sydney, across Australia, to our ‘starting’ point at Exmouth (Ningaloo). The trip meter is now reading in excess of 3,000km. I am at Balladonia Roadhouse, on the western edge of the Nullarbor, which I crossed in one hit today. […]
