If there’s one thing I love, it’s a good road trip! Ever since I drove across the Nullarbor with a couple of friends at the ripe old age of 19, I’ve been hooked. Whether it’s motorcycling through Morocco, motorhoming around New Zealand, a driving holiday in Europe, or caravanning throughout Australia, my happy place is on the road.
And these days – with the boundaries between our work lives and our lives outside of work seeming to be more blurred than ever, I reckon I’ve just about managed to turn what could be seen as an intrusion to many, into an advantage for me and my adventuring spirit.
It began in 2020 with COVID…and a cancelled European holiday. Instead of seeing France and Spain and Italy, I managed to get out of Victoria between lockdowns, for what would have been the last 4-weeks of a 3-month trip to Europe. But with the situation deteriorating in Victoria, that 4-week road trip turned into an amazing 15-week adventure into parts of the outback I had never visited before.
Given the world was opening up to the possibilities working remotely offered, this suited me just fine, and I went from hardly knowing what zoom was, to running my training workshops online…and potentially from anywhere – all I needed was internet reception!
Now I knew I could make it work, the door opened for more regular (and longer!) annual road trips – working on the road, while nourishing my soul through amazing places to see and new things to experience.
2021 saw a 15-week road trip to Alice Springs and Broome, then down the west coast and back across the Nullarbor – getting into WA two days before their border closed to the rest of the country, then later getting stuck in WA for an extra week when South Australia closed its border to anyone coming east.
I could think of worse places to be stuck!
In 2022 and 2023 I focused on different parts of the east coast, meeting up with clients and contacts along the way, and in 2024 it was time to explore Central Australia more and visit the Top End, all while running webinars and online training sessions along the way. And one of the greatest joys of this outback travel is getting to meet up in-person with wonderful people doing amazing things in remote parts of the country – people who you otherwise would only ever see through a computer screen.
In the first half of 2025 I finally got the 3-month trip through Europe that COVID scuttled. And thanks to the wonders of modern technology I was able to keep my business ticking along, still serving my wonderful clients from the other side of the world and from a different time zone – although I must say running webinars in the middle of the night was not a highlight of the trip!
And as I write this blog I am on the road again – camped up in northern New South Wales on the way to family in Queensland. This trip I am in the middle of a ’50 Coffees’ networking challenge – so I have lots of coffee catch ups booked in – from Albury to Brisbane, and at multiple points in between.
And this shift to digital nomading truly aligns with my overall life philosophy of: Do it now – don’t wait.
Do you have the travel bug too? If you do, I hope I have given you some inspiration to hit the road. And if you fancy a coffee with me along the way – either in person or online, I’d love to catch up!
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