15. 2015 Summary

Once again we focused the year primarily on our enjoyment of travel but we also juggled into our itinerary the attendance at a couple of 60^th birthday celebrations, an annual get together of the Bushtracker Caravan owners group, a wedding and a 60^th wedding anniversary. Unfortunately it was a year where we also had the need to include a few medical maintenance appointments.

To integrate the above functions we refined our travel strategies to incorporate areas we thought would appeal to us for exploration while still participating in our love of travel.

For the first 5 months of the year we stayed close to our home base, not travelling any further away than a distance of about 800 kilometres. We still thoroughly enjoyed our nomadic adventures which ranged from periods of a week up to nearly 6 months away at a time.

2015 was another enjoyable year for us full of highlights. We relished our time together, viewing a vast variety of different types of scenery and meeting many happy like minded people along our travels.

Great company

It seemed to be a year of itineries where we needed to maintain some form of time frames. We would have preferred no time lines, providing the opportunity to spend as much time as we felt like to explore and soak in the environments around us whenever and wherever we were.

Great scenery

Our motto: We travel with a caravan; we have plans subject to change.

We have found the weather influences the direction of your travel and contributes to the length of time spent at various places. Obviously the place itself and its appeal to you, the lovely people around you can extend your stay, and also the knowledge of fellow travelers can alter your intended plans. There are a lot of lovely people in Australia!

Brian a great bloke

Our cost summary for 2015.

This incorporates the period from January 1^st for 323 days, where we focused the best part of our time on enjoyment, exploring Australian, travelling in our caravan.

All costs have been rounded out to the nearest $100.

Food expenditure       =                                  $5800

Fuel expenditure         =                                  $5200

Accommodation expenditure           =          $3200

Other living expenditures       =                      $11500

We spent 65 nights in National Parks, 59 in caravan parks, 140 at free camping locations and 59 at showgrounds / low cost camping areas.

We travelled about 20,500 kilometres.

The average expenditure incurred whilst travelling, ~            $80 per day.

The above costs do not include our fixed costs with an example of these costs incurred such as vehicle registration, maintaining a house and insurance costs. For us this cost was around the $20,000 area per annum.