DRAWN & QUARTERED

IF YOU’RE IN THE MOOD FOR REGULAR CHANGES OF SCENERY WHILE KEEPING ALL THE COMFORTS OF HOME, THEN YOU BETTER DREAM BIG ... REAL BIG

- BRAD MISKIEWICZ

SOME people’s idea of living is having the comfort of the same neighbourhood day-in-day-out, and recent government-imposed restrictions have assisted in this scenario nicely. It has, however, left a huge dent in the aspirations of those who like to travel. However, as that great 20th Century poet Bob Dylan once objectified: “The times they are a changin’.”

With that considered, many travellers are heading out past their own backyard or, even better, dedicating solid chunks of their time and money to a multi-state lap of our awesome Australian outback.

The owners of the colossal 2016 200 Series LandCruiser Sahara before you are most definitely of the later demographic, and currently doing the lockdown twostep all over Australia. However, Jon and Nikki Mees conceived their travel plans well before the world turned to mush: “We were pretty fortunate as we had the trip planned pre-COVID. So we had the caravan and everything else ordered beforehand.”