G'day! We're Hayley and Brad; a 28-year-old husband and wife duo from Australia. Our motto is to ‘live an extraordinary life.’ So a few years ago, we decided to pack up our lives, sell most of our belongings and travel around Australia in a caravan!

We thought this was a pretty cool thing to do, so we started filming videos of our trip to share on Youtube. As it turns out, a lot of other people thought it was really cool too! We now have a loyal and supportive audience of people following along who are both inspired and intrigued by this unorthodox life we’re living. So what led us to embark on this crazy adventure and a whole new way of living life?

It was way back in 2018 when we came up with the crazy idea to pack up our lives and do a big lap of Australia. At first, we intended for it to just be a one-year trip. We’d save up enough money to buy our setup and a year’s worth of living expenses, put our belongings in storage, then sell our rig on our return home and go back to normal life. 

It was about a year and a half after this idea was first conceived that we began seriously planning our trip. We were doing a great job at saving and saw that our dream could actually become a reality. We set a goal to do the trip in 2022 and in early 2020, we visited our first caravan expo and realised just how much there was to learn! 

We spent the next two years continuing to save money, plan our trip of Australia and camp locally in our tent while we waited. During this time, we created the Our Australia Trip social media pages to share our little camping adventures, insights into our big lap preparation and all the tips we were learning along the way. 

We also slowly realised that just one year was not going to be enough time for us to see everything we wanted to see in this great country. Our initial plan for a one-year big lap was now transforming into the idea of packing up our lives and travelling Australia indefinitely. 

We purchased a second-hand 79 series Landcruiser and off-road caravan and before we knew it, 2022 had come around and it was finally time for us to set off on our travels! We left our home on the Gold Coast and headed north to explore the Queensland coast. It was only 6 weeks into our trip when we embarked on one of our wildest adventures to date: Cape York in a caravan!

We’d also started posting videos from our trip on Youtube (you can watch here) and highlights on Instagram and Facebook. We continued sharing our adventures as we then headed down to South Australia at the end of 2022, spending 3 months there before making the mighty trek across the Nullarbor in early 2023, where we entered into Western Australia for the first time.