Epsiode 21

Driver getting married & marriage culture

• Im really good at understanding people’s broken English
• stool at dinner
• Gio obsessed with kory
• Ppl so nice high class Luxury
• Italians everywhere
• We might invest
• Met Americans at Komodo Bakery
• Anniversary
• Padar Island hike —> Pink Beach & lunch —> Komodo National Park —> Manta Point
• Met Americans again
• Romantic Beach Dinner
• Seeing snorkelers in the middle of the ocean
• Fallen trees look like Komodo’s
• Kory and I gonna give you the realness, enough with fake positivity
• Layover in Bali with perfectly timed massages - long security - no water
• Tree update
• Darwin is a fine place
• Andy sunset markets again
• Poop in shower
• Oil change & new tyres
• Sam from Triple T Cafe
• New whistlers x2
• Kakadu - so hot - avoided campers, nice pool, mozzies and flies
• Cahill’s crossing wrong tide
• Ubirr art & flood plain
• Jim Jim Falls OPENS!!! off roading, swimming to waterfall, swallowing water, Cairns family doing big lap in 6 months
• Katherine Hot Springs & Mataranka Thermal Pool so fun!!!
• Daly Waters Pub wild:hectic!! Singer doing big lap for 12 years over and over - singing baby songs, wide load owner, junk yard, saltwater croc, pony, SNAKE!!!!!
• Devil’s Marbles Karlu Karlu
• Wycliffe Wells theories
• Free WW2 campsite
• Alice Springs - gday mate camp, biking / jogging (trail name changes), weird situations, checking out the town, lots of art shops, kory not realizing how far Uluru was
• Perfectly timed sunset at Uluru (magic!!)
• Free camp again then sunrise
• tourists (leaning against us for photo)
• Base walk - aboriginal stories kinda harsh, no photos area, USA lady, kid who couldn’t ride bike
• Kata Tjuṯa - we discovered cooking in the sun is so much better, cool hike!! No viewpoint photos, got to climb the rocks, kory alphaing lady crawling down
• Sunset at Uluru up in tent
• Curtain Springs - old mate at bar and disgusting bathrooms
• Kings Canyon - mini bungles, screaming girl
• Back to Alice - kangaroos crossing in front
• funny camel at big man walk Aileron
• Australia gas culture - waiting, people shop

WELCOME TESS TO EPISODE 20!!!!

Episode 20:

• Ubud Airbnb lady saying Europe and America and Australia are different?? I think of them as the same
• Rice terraces - we entered for free before 8 am lol & silly $10 swing photos are the only reason to pay entry
• Waterfall with caves
• Crazy mani pedi
• Google Translate to solve my problems - Airbnb story
• Campuhan Ridge Walk
• Tess motor scooter helpers
• Seeds of Life for dinner - Chello knew it
• Yoga Barn Jamaican man morning flow
• Walk to Monkies - do not look monkeys in eye - Kory trying to save the day
• Tegenungan Waterfall
• Chain of events to get to find Ron
• Kory following vibes to coconut ice cream - Ron
• Hiking Mt. Batur - Tess’s energy - Izzy and Terri - Nyoman & Johnish - banana sandwiches - steam - hot springs - luwak coffee plantation &
• tasting Meetings with Ron

Episode 19: Bali

• thoughts & prayers for our tree
• Late flight & anniversary flowers
• Ferry ride to Nusa Penida
• Motor scooter rental (with bags and without bags), buying petrol
• Airbnb, welcome drinks, included brekky, puppies and kitty, restaurant, spa
• Offerings and incense, Music and chanting every night - parade of people
• “Town” of Crystal bay
• Thoughts on the island: kelingking & hike down, Angel’s billabong, broken beach - tourists taking the same influencer pics & people recording themselves doing fake yoga and spins in the water
• Disorganized hike, cows, monkeys, Indonesian man on trails with knife
• Massages
• Ferry karaoke & upper deck beers
• Taxi people calling us out on the USD conversions (and necklace lady)
• Swedish meatballs
• Buying necklace from lady on beach - she blessed us
• All the workers here are so smiley and welcoming and grateful
• Amazing Airbnb & location - thanks to construction!!
• Walking to groceries but ended up with an hour foot massage
• Wash hands before entering cultural experience (nope) - are YOU gluten?
• Kory Italian
• Went back for massages and Kory got burnt and his family was too concerned
• 5 mile run
• Coffee tasting
• Finns - getting our sunset seats and couch seat
• Umalas Coffee / temple view with Brenden McQueen
• Tanah Lot - pay for everything including snake, blessing at temple, Coffee at tourist spot had bats and lemurs
• Sa’Mesa - Singapore friends
• Crate Cafe & Dutch guy
• Cole brought the word brother
• Most people here just want your money

EPISODE 18:

Mimbi Caves

• Getting on the tour!! Thanks Rosemary!
• The old people comments

China Wall

• Dogs are friends

Bungle Bungles

• 53 km off road to the visitors centre
• River crossings
• Running into the elderly again
• Beehive domes, whip snake, cathedral
• Meeting Trusted Housesitters
• A lady telling us to get out of her photo
• All the ladies looked the same hiking

Dingos - one pooping

It's a long drive but has nice scenery

Lake Argyle

• caravan park where everyone takes a cool pool photo
• Kory biking
• Dams

Northern Territory!!

• fix ya roads

Katherine

• Run to hot springs
• Random fires
• Mango man
• First American that guy has met
• Hot springs swimming!!! & jumping
• Nitmiluk National Park - everyone does boat tours, no swimming where we went, dude swimming in the gross water, goanna, kory biking
• Kory telling camping neighbors to be quiet

Darwin

• Cafe with nothing for me
• Mindil Beach Sunset Markets
• Walking around town
• Kory biking

Kory’s thoughts about something

We’re going on a trip!!!!

Episode 17:

Exmouth

⁃ Snorkeling

⁃ Yardie camp - yoga, neighbors, Marshall chili

⁃ Whale shark robot lady

⁃ American communication base

⁃ Followed by French starting in coral bay

Karijini

⁃ Free Camping with the stars

⁃ Hiking —> swimming through the narrow gorges - so special!!!!

⁃ Hammersley Gorge, “The Spa” pool, we jumped in

⁃ Roadhouse - nice & free laundry

⁃ Car was so red and dirty needed wash

Port Hedland

⁃ Pretty massive for a remote town! (Had a naturopath and things like that)

⁃ Car & bike wash

⁃ American train cafe with good service

⁃ Watching the big ships

⁃ Sea turtle lookout

⁃ Pretty Pool with the creepy mangroves

⁃ Learning about stone fish & cone snail

⁃ Marshall & Kory obsessed with mines

80 Mile Beach

⁃ rip car wash - raining!!!!!!

⁃ Mini wallabies (rock wallabies??)

⁃ caught the sunset!! Can’t swim. All the “s” animals

⁃ Smash burgers!!!

⁃ Kory waiting for coffee for hours with old mate

⁃ Daily Mail

⁃ Google reviews

Broome

⁃ Expectations

⁃ Matso’s chili mango ginger beers

⁃ Raining still

⁃ Camels canceled

⁃ Searched for farmer’s market

⁃ Bali food

⁃ Roey’s sketchy bars

⁃ Max Mad Furiosa outside with wine

⁃ Met a cute 12 year old traveling for 2 years who did a wheelie

⁃ Dino footprints

⁃ Finding tallow!!!!

Cygnet Bay

⁃ So dope - pearl farm - did business scouting tour

⁃ Driving all the way without booking but getting lucky

⁃ Closer talker at dinner & free Tim Tam

⁃ Croccy - didn’t see one

⁃ Pool & happy hour

⁃ Difference between the 2 campsites (spiders, grasshopper, lizard, & wind)

⁃ Being called Argentinian

⁃ Followed by crazy family and kid

Broome

⁃ Market

⁃ Crazy ladies at check in (future kids, trump, & pearls)

⁃ CAMELS!!! Tex, Red, Ringo

⁃ Thai Street Food - Marshall chilis

⁃ Buddha Sanctuary

⁃ Saying bye to Marsh!!

Mimbi Caves

⁃ Boab trees

⁃ Fitzroy Crossing sketch

⁃ soooo colorful here

⁃ Kory drove 5 hours then we ran a 5k

⁃ Trying to get on tour of caves

⁃ Mustache

Episode 16:

• Marshall arrives! Introduce who he is & His long route
• Next day is an admin day to get his camping gear and other necessities (haircut)
• Tiktok
• National pride felt by Marshall too
• Rottnest Island - quokkas, 3 snorkels (Little Salmon Bay, the Basin, and Faye’s Bay), no cars, pinky’s sunset, skydivers
• Telstra struggle - girl asking about guns?
• The Pinnacles - flies, our opinions on what they are
• RAC Cervantes - the group of 7 guys next to us
• Hutt Lagoon Pink Lake
• Kalbarri - red bluffs, blue pools snorkeling
• Kory stirfry on black top
• Pelican feeding
• Kalbarri National Park - skywalk, nature’s window, z bend
• Thorny devils
• Shell Beach - salty
• Monkey Mia (whole town is caravan park)
• Immediate dolphin sighting
• Dolphin feedings
• Off roading to Francois Peron beaches
• Marshall snacking
• No road shoulder
• Kory grocery store experience
• carnarvon fruits
• Point Quobba
• Coral Bay - first beach & 5 Fingers Reef
• Exmouth

Snorkel spots ranked:

• Rottnest little salmon bay
• Kalbarri Blue Pools
• Rottnest Fayes Bay
• Rottnest The Basin
• Francois Peron Bottle Bay
• Perth Mettam Pool

Animals:

Dolphins

Emus

Kangaroos

Lizards

Pelicans

Oysters

Fishies

Crabs with big eyes

Lobster

Octopus

Shrimp

Big clams and eels

Turtle

Shark

Seeking turtles, dugongs, more oysters

Episode 15

• Back at our favorite Perth caravan park
• Picking up Marshall in a few hours
• Confused about this flights
• Mountain bike parks around Perth
• Cafe with dogs pictures we found summer
• Influencer & Murdering husband neighbor
• Port Coogee exploring (shipwreck)
• Almost buying a bad bull bar
• We love below-deck sailing yacht
• Maxi finished painting
• Leaving Summer - thoughts on her overall dog-sitting job, pros and cons
• Fremantle Exploration - old forts and a beautiful old town
• Lovely construction work between hours 10 pm - 4 am
• There is always one person in the caravan park who looks like they belong
• Maxi getting locked out of the bathroom
• One star pet sitting review from Bussleton
• Kory is petting more dogs than Maxi
• We never book in advance but we are getting better anniversary trip
• Car drama today

Animals of the Week:

•Summer & lots of rando doggos

•pelicans

•Pidgins doing mating call

•phat grass spider

Today, we dive into some hard-hitting subjects like, is Kory a Bogan? How we are so Lucky! We are on the opposite side of the world than Branford. Perth a Forever home? And of course why May 8 matters!

Some additional topics we cover are:

• people fighting on pier about crocs
• Cujie only afraid of one thing more than us - THUNDERSTORMS
• grocery store stock
• Nannup - biking & tigers
• Bean chapel
• New shoes
• Triathlon / farmers market and coffee in back of truck
• Cape naturaliste
• Cape Leeuwin - free tour
• Honeymoon question
• Hamelin Bay trying to see stingrays
• The perfect Bike rack!!!
• Tires
• Kory vs dishwasher
• Kory using lingo
• Gucci & Air Jordan & bug bite oil
• Getting our next dogsit and canceling Rottnest
• Saw the end of the rainbow on way to Perth
• Amazing caravan park with pools & daybeds
• But it sounded like Pearl Harbor in the lake behind us
• Meat lovers pizza sleep
• Perth is quiet vs busy
• Houses in cities
• Summer, Silvana, and Brett
• Trigg, Scarborough, Cottsloe, South Beach Fremantle, Port Coogee Marina

Animals of the Week:

Cujie

Pelican

Lots of ducks and bird things

Geckos

Blue tongued skink

Fishies swimming

Funny looking seagulls with black mullets

Summer

Episode 13:

⁃ Road trip bible

⁃ Albany & Big 4 Premier (jumping pillow & American man)

⁃ Kory dunks!

⁃ Anzac Museum

⁃ Denmark, WA

⁃ Ocean Beach - sharks & shark alert system

⁃ Big tree country

⁃ Margaret River

⁃ Anzac Sunrise Service & 2 Up

⁃ Surfers Point

⁃ Julie, Jeff, and Cujie

⁃ 14 out of 18 days camping

⁃ Kangaroos on bike paths

⁃ Toe socks & shoe hunt

⁃ Longest jetty in the southern hemisphere

⁃ Margaret Wine tastings!

⁃ Below Deck

Episode 12:

Some things we missed from last week's episode

• Nepal man
• Antisocial behavior signs

This week, our adventure takes us west! Some highlights we talk about include

• Maxi had a dream of exploring Australia
• Trying to buy a bull bar and dealing with the salespeople
• Streaky Bay Islands Caravan Park #1 campsite (the crazy guy in the kitchen??)
• “The wave”
• David & Julie - we tried to camp with people but we couldn't find them
• Camping on SA/WA border — the dunes!!!!!, only one other car, using up our produce
• Border security -
• Clarification on what the Nullarbor is - expectations in life and reality (everyone has opinions, not many people have experiences)
• 45 min time zone/time warp
• Bathers Paradise is closing up shop
• More meeting people and not following through with plans
• Lucky Bay - whitest sand in the world - everyone drives on beaches here
• Off-roading to campsite then rerouting to interesting Chiang Mai man’s campsite with haircuts and mini golf
• Google maps sealed vs unsealed roads
• Wharton Bay!!! Swimming in the blue
• Cape Arid / Thomas River - beach run/swim
• Cape Le Grand — we’ll have to come back. Hellfire Bay was outstanding
• Bremer Bay / rainy day

Animal Sightings:

Bandicoot (Phillip island)

Goat

Dragonflies

Cats at campsites / crossing road

Big birds

Camels!!!

Kangaroos on beach

Roos and emus off to side of road and running

Owl

Seagulls

Lizard in a hole