Wonderful WANDERLUST
Everyone dreams of escaping, of ditching the workday routine and living every day like it’s the weekend. It’s what drives so many Big Lap dreams and holiday road trips, because when your ‘to-do’ list starts with putting the solar panels in the sun, setting the crab pots and finding a sunny spot to sip your cuppa, you know you’ve got your life back on track.
More and more Australians are swapping mortgage stress and hectic living for a simpler, less hurried and much cheaper slice of the good life. But how do you make the holiday last? And if you never went back home again, what might your life look like?
If you could create a life off the grid, living footloose and mortgage-free, where would you go and what would you miss?
My version of the dream began 20 years ago with a backpack and a budget campervan. Four sailboats and a handful of LandCruisers later I’m a fully-fledged digital nomad, living with my family entirely off the grid. Aboard our catamaran we pay no rent, make our own power and water daily, and travel year-round, schooling our eight-year-old daughter along the way.
It’s an adventurous life for sure, fuelled by wanderlust and our trio’s tight family bond, but having a sailboat anchors
