2020 was a tumultuous year for everyone.
Covid 19 changed the world – the way we conduct business, the way we socialise (or not) and, significantly in the context of this blog, the way we travel.
Whilst our family was absorbing the impact of Covid, in June we were sent another challenge… I was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer. In the first few days we learned that my treatment would span at least eight months – eight months! I thought what then? Would we be able to go to Europe as was originally planned for 2020? Would we go to the US to see the grandchild whose January arrival had just been announced? What would my health be like in 2021?
Needing to have a research topic to keep my mind occupied on things other than chemo, I started to consider our options if we were to be confined to Australia. We have never owned a caravan and I wasn’t keen on that option but I started to think about Motorhomes. Our Motorhome experience to date consisted of looking at a very luxe Winnebago at a travel show once but surely there are less expensive options? Perhaps we could hire a motorhome for three months I said casually to Russell…. or buy a second hand one and then re sell it…..
Within a week we were in the Jayco sales yard telling the friendly salesman that we were “just looking” but anything we considered “must have an oven and a toilet” and two weeks later we had signed up for our Jayco Conquest DX motorhome, to be delivered in November.
What a carrot on a stick it became, the symbol of the end of treatment and our reward for enduring it.
In the end, thanks to Covid lockdowns in Victoria, it was seven months later in February 2021 before we finally took delivery of the yet to be named Moho.
In the very near future we will begin a new phase of Red and Rusty On Tour, becoming Grey Nomads and hitting the highways and back roads of Australia.
We hope you can travel with us, on social media at least, and would love to hear your feedback or travel tips!