On the road again….

Back to the roots: we transferred our wondervan to the new owners today and found ourselves with a bag on the side of the street! Funny feeling….silly as it is we’d grown attached to our van and it was sad to say goodbye to it. Although we were happy the emptying out, cleaning and preparing was over. Since 10 days went by between showing the car and transferring it we ended up doing a lot of cleaning twice. But now it’s all over, we’re basically spending time in Perth (8-10 hours) before catching the first flight for this journey.

Australia has been great. Traveling in the van for these 5 months was definitely not boring! I wouldn’t have thought we’d stay so long, but somehow once you have the van and are on the road you just get used to this way of life and always find something else you’d like to visit, and it so happens that things are often thousands of kilometers away in Australia! If we were to do this trip again we’d probably schedule it differently, flying some sections instead of driving the whole way. But then again, afterwards one is always smarter, and these long drives were part of the adventure.

So in about 24 hours we’ll be landing in Port Vila. After 3 flights and I forget how many waiting hours at airports we’ll be bagged for sure, but we already reserved a room (the 1st time we made a reservation since we left Zurich!) at a cute little guest house where a real bed is awaiting us. What a treat!

I wonder how we will find it to land in a country like Vanuatu after being here for so long, but to be honest I’m not too worried. From what we’ve heard and read, it looks like paradise.