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Port Augusta SA · 23 MIN · JUN 2026
I Didn't Expect Van Life to Feel Like This
“Month one. Cold nights, a laptop and a lot of thinking.”
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Videos
New ones land on YouTube (pretty) regularly, and here once I've written a note. Start with these three. They explain the rest.
On the road
Start with these.
Same three as the homepage. When there's a fourth, it joins them. Play here, or open the note.
02Mt Dare SA · 46 MIN · AUG 2026
I Wasn't Ready to Leave
“I came for a night or two. Stayed a week. Blame the pub dogs.”
03Alice Springs NT · 35 MIN · AUG 2026
I Knew Something Wasn't Right
“The honest side of solo travel.”
Road to 100
The 56 km
The Yurrebilla ultra, in the Adelaide Hills. Training films will join this one.
Yurrebilla SA · 34 MIN · OCT 2026
I Went From the Couch to a 56KM Ultra in 6 Weeks
“Six weeks from the couch to a 56 km ultra.”
The story so far · 9 places
Where the films happened.
The first big trip, north from Adelaide. A place gets a file of its own. Some of them have a video. Some are just a stop on the way.
Port Augusta SA
Month one. Head of the gulf, cold nights, a lot of thinking.
First stop that felt like van life rather than a long drive out of Adelaide. Cold, a laptop open, and more thinking than filming.
Quorn SA
A hike at Dutchmans Stern, near Quorn, on the way north from Port Augusta.
Left Port Augusta for a hike at Dutchmans Stern, near Quorn. A pasty from a bakery in town, then north towards Pimba.
Pimba SA
A week sleeping in the roadhouse car park at the Woomera turnoff, wondering if I'd go crazy.
A week sleeping in the car park at Spuds Roadhouse, where the Stuart Highway turns off for Woomera. I was wondering if I’d go crazy.
Coober Pedy SA
About a week in the opal town. A campfire, and it started to make sense.
Coober Pedy is the opal town on the Stuart Highway, north of Pimba. About a week from 3 July. A campfire here is where van life started to make sense.
Kulgera NT
The Stuart Highway at the SA–NT border, after Coober Pedy.
Kulgera sits on the Stuart Highway at the border, on the way to Mt Dare. It’s in the Mt Dare film and the Alice Springs film.
Finke (Aputula) NT
The sign says Finke. The community is Aputula.
Aputula, still signed as Finke, on the road out to Mt Dare. It belongs to the week at the pub, in the Mt Dare film.
Mt Dare SA
Australia's most remote pub, a week of pub dogs and the Dalhousie hot springs down the track.
Booked a night or two at the Mt Dare Hotel. Stayed a week. The pub, the dogs, the people passing through. Dalhousie Springs is further down the track.
Dalhousie Springs SA
Hot springs down the track from the pub.
The springs are why a lot of people drive the last rough bit past Mt Dare. It is a long way, and the road lets you know. The visit is in the Mt Dare film.
Alice Springs NT
Where the trip stopped going to plan, and I turned the van around.
This is where the lap of Australia stopped being the plan. I turned the van around. The exact camp is in the video, not written up here yet.