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It’s not just Georgia and Joel Munn who have ticked off a bucket list for many Australians by traveling around the country, they have also created a side job that makes them thousands.
The pair decided to give the van life a try after 29-year-old Georgia, who works in events, was diagnosed with chronic fatigue.
They have been working on the away in a former tradition van they converted, to give her a chance to recover.
The Brisbane couple spent $42,000 buying and transforming their old traditional vehicle. Because Joel, 25, is a carpenter, they had an advantage in getting the work done.
And one key they couldn’t negotiate was a space-saving bed, Georgia said.
They installed a Happijac, which allows the entire bed to be lifted and stored on the roof of the van when not in use.
“That will be a kind of living room, and when you go to sleep you put the whole bed down,” she tells 9Travel. “It doubled our space.”
The couple went everywhere from Queensland to Tasmania and had a few highlights.
Porcupine Gorge in North Queensland was “really beautiful,” says Georgia.
And while the pair thought Uluru would be ‘overrated’, that really wasn’t the case. Maria Island in Tasmania also topped their list. There they exchanged the van to stay in the old prison.
“There was just the craziest, uninterrupted nature I’ve ever seen,” she said.
Over the course of the year, they spent about $30,000 on their living expenses.
And they have some tips for those who would like to follow them
”Don’t have plans, just take it slow and embrace that,” she says. “The times we had a deadline made us feel like it wasn’t even what we wanted.”
As for the essentials, the couple bought a handheld coffee grinder from Rhinowares, which costs about $60, to make their own coffee.
Plus, a $15 IKEA laundry bag made washing their clothes so much easier.
“It was so good because you could just carry this thing around,” she said
Now that they are back home, they rent out the van Camplify and earned $14,000 last year.
It is popular with people who drive it to Byron Bay, or even all the way to Sydney.
“It’s a nice little injection,” she says
But they’re still using it too, with the next trip planned to the seaside town of Scotts Head in northern NSW
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