Due to a number of reasons I am now living on the road. A brief job plumbing on a remote station in the North West of Australia has given me an insight into a new way of life. I have loaded up my family and tools and set of in search of work and goodtimes throughout our vast country.
Before I left home their was a noticeable slow down in the building game, particularly in the housing sector. So with not much work on, I headed to Wallal Station 400km south of Broome for a few weeks work. I earn't the best money I had in a long time, and gained a valuable insight also. I had wanted to set off and travel the country for a long time, but had always thought you needed to save a very large amount of money to pay for the round trip. It never occurred to me that my trade was all I needed. You can earn good money whilst travelling and you can save by living simply in a caravan, but the best part about working on the road is the people you meet, and contacts you make. This makes for a much more enriched travelling experience than that of the normal tourist type, sight seeing holiday. Not to mention the fact that I'm writing this while sitting under a palm tree in sunny Broome, Western Australia.
