About Us

We’re the Mawle family from Perth, Western Australia, Richard and Charlotte with our two beautiful children, Emily and Oliver.  Welcome to our Blog, where we want to keep our friends and family up to date with our progress and to inspire others to take the leap and change their lives forever.

In April 2013, after 6 months of planning, we started our adventure setting off on a road trip around Australia,with Europe, North & South America to follow.  You can see a map of the places we visit on the “Itinerary” page.

As we go on this family journey together we will use this blog to share travel tips, stories, photographs and videos of the places we stay and the amazing people we meet.

A quote we found recently eloquently summaries why we have undertaken this journey:

“It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new.  But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful.  There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power” –  Alan Cohen.