The most common response to the news that our family was embarking on a year-long adventure around Australia was, I ve always wanted to do that . As though this, and not buying bricks and mortar, was the real great Australian dream, never realised. Life and its complications and mundanities conspired to stop us taking our Aussie lap too, even though hubby and I had talked about it since the first time we met. It was easier to stick to the daily grind. But we made it out, and spent 2019 lapping Australia in a two-by-five metre camper-trailer, with our two sons, aged 10 and 12. And boy are we glad we didn t wait.