WHY MOTORHOMING?

Up until early 2011 the plan was to ‘backpack’ our way around Europe, perhaps alternating between public transport and a hire car to get around and staying in cheap accommodation. If six months ago you had have told me that instead I would be motorhoming around Europe and the UK for four months I would have laughed. So what changed?

In January I was trawling through the University of Newcastle careers website database, searching for a job to tide me over until our wedding in May and our trip overseas. The words “Researcher/Writer” caught my attention. I had just finished my Business and Law Degrees and had completed a subject called ‘Advanced Research and Writing’ which had resulted in me being awarded Honours. “I can research and write” I thought, so I applied and was successful.

The job is possibly one of the most random jobs around: writing the history of the Campervan and Motorhome Club of Australia to commemorate their 25^th Birthday in April 2011. In conducting my research I discovered a world that I never knew existed - a world full of freedom, friendship, travel and adventure. I kid you not when I say my heart would flutter as I read peoples stories in the CMCA’s monthly magazine The Wanderer. I would hang on every word as I read about travels around Australia and all the joys the motorhoming lifestyle brings.

I kept thinking to myself “I can’t wait until I retire and can travel around Australia in a motorhome”. This is a pretty depressing thought for some fresh out of uni and yet to even start working. Then it hit me - this is how we should see Europe and the UK, we should hire a motorhome. I have no doubt that I got the job at the CMCA for a reason. The simplest way to describe it - I was absolutely hooked.