Hello and thanks for the invite. We have finally graduated from a tent! Purchased an Austrack Stockton X7 Poptop Camper and can not wait to get out amongst it. Our first trip will be a mates place for a week. Hopefully this will shake out any bugs from manufacture and we can start preparing for a bigger trip. Cheers.

Can I bust a myth real quick? There is no magic daily number for travelling Australia. Every number you find online is someone else's trip, someone else's van, someone else's habits. It is not yours. And planning your savings around it is one of the most common reasons families either run out of money on the road or never leave in the first place. So here's the actual framework. Three things drive the bulk of your daily spend. Fuel, accommodation, and food. Everything else sits on top. Once you understand those three levers, you can start pulling them — travel slower to cut fuel, mix free camps with mid-week park stays to cut accommodation, be honest about your eating habits instead of pretending you'll suddenly become a meal-prep machine. Then you add the stuff people forget. The back-home bills that keep running while you're gone. The ambulance cover that's probably only valid in your home state. The Starlink. The van loan. The subscriptions quietly billing to your card. We averaged $700 a week across 11 months on the road as a family. Some weeks were double that. Some weeks we barely spent anything. But we knew our average. We'd built the buffer. And we had an emergency fund sitting completely separate — untouched unless something went genuinely sideways. That's the system. And I've turned it into a free cheat sheet that's now in the classroom — grab it and use it as your reference while you build your budget. If you want to go deeper and actually run your own numbers, that's what the Budget Planner is for ($7us once off, or free with premium membership). Drop a comment below — what cost category caught you most off guard when you actually started planning? Grab the cheat sheet: https://margieandtim.com.au/big-lap-budget-cheatsheet/ Have a great day Margie Watch the video here:

This space is for families who are done just dreaming about the big trip and are ready to actually plan it, save for it, and make it happen — without the guesswork and without blowing their budget. We're building this out right alongside you — adding new content, tools, and resources as we go. Stick around and you'll be the first to access everything as it drops. 🌟 Founding Member Opportunity Because we're just getting started, there's something special about being here right now. Lock in Founding Member pricing and get access to all future premium content we add to the classroom — at today's price, forever. → See plans: https://www.skool.com/plan-save-go-2151/about 🗺️ A Note From Us We're Margie and Tim — a family who's been travelling Australia with our two kids, tracking every dollar, learning every lesson, and sharing all of it honestly. We're building this community to make travel easier for everyone - all the resources in the one place. Budgeting, Planning and Caravan maintenance tricks and tips. 👋 Now — introduce yourself below! Tell us: - Where are you based? - How far away is your big trip? - What's the one thing you most want help with? Thanks for joining us :)

Come and view our very first Video to our brand new channel! This could explain a lot! :P Enjoy PS it is currently only available to you guys, I'll make it a public video in a few hours time.

One of the hardest things to do before you leave is all the stuff that you have to do... And once you start putting your ideas down and the to do lists together, the lists just start growing... When do you leave? - Then the question goes to: what about work? contact the boss, work out leave, do I have leave? contact HR... - What about big family events? weddings? big birthdays.... What do you need to be around for? What about the house? - rent, sell, close up and ask a neighbour. - What about all your personal belongings? As you can see, the list goes on and on... If you're in this arghh stage, check out the 7 day challenge, it might get you on the right track and a bit more organised. What part have you been putting off the longest? Let's start a community thread below, and we'll see if we can help each other out :)