Have I got news for you?But before I go there I'd like to thank those of you who have personally supported me through this journey of being a home owner (with mortgage) to becoming a full time vandweller without mortgage, power bills or 'stuff'. I've been a vandweller for 9 months and, yes, there are occasional stressful moments but mostly it's been good fun seeing places that I'm sure I would never have ever seen otherwise. I travel from beautiful 'free camp' to the next one allowing Apple Maps to be my guide - always avoiding the highways - always an adventure 😊 I've travelled on nice smooth roads and some bumpy, single lane roads leading who knows where! First and foremost I am a photographer and getting the Mouse House was a way of expanding my photographic horizons and capturing with my various cameras and now, with the GoPro also, what I see and experience so that I can share these adventures with you. These photos were taken at the Escher/Nendo exhibition in Melbourne. It was a special evening by invitation to past and future art students of Melbourne Universities. How wonderful to be granted permission to photograph the pictures and installations and to have room to see it all so well - not to mention canapés and drinks. Here are some more images from the last leg of the (Bendigo and back to Dorrigo) journey. Number 7 in the series. The last of the Tiny House Expo films. The other 6 can be found by clicking on the little girl 🤗 Each of these films shows the roads I travelled as well as the 'free camps' I stayed at. Temperatures ranged from 32 deg to 2 deg on this last leg of the journey. I've loved it all. I hope you enjoy it too! Back to the news...I have bought a block of land in the quietest place you could imagine. I am now the owner of 1/2 acre of land with views and a Rural Village classification 1/2 hour's drive from Armidale. I saw the block before I went to Bendigo and it was not only quiet....it was also very dry!! (It has rained there since these photos were taken and is now nice and green.) So many rules and regulations! This council, like most, I am sad to say, are not geared up to help those who wish to live tiny, off-grid, sustainable, solar passive so it looks like, for a while at least, I have bought myself a camping spot with great views, feral goats and not much else. I've read so much, all the rules and regulations, and I've spoken to countless council employees and the rules are the rules apparently. Mind you, when I was about to withdraw my offer, a very lovely man said I could have a compost loo and grey water dispersal system and then the next person, once I'd signed, said I could not. I can have a shed but I cannot live in it. So... I am at a bit of a standstill with this and have yet to find the 'right' person to talk to. Any useful thoughts on this will be much appreciated.
That's all for now. Clare x
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Lynda keft
4/5/2019 11:40:31 am
Congratulations, Clare! The block looks so peaceful... I love the little shack. Is that there too?
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Clare
5/5/2019 10:15:13 am
Hello Lynda, great to hear you have reached your destination safely and that you are enjoying being in Ceduna.
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