In the days before Victoria went into full lockdown and without a home to return to, a very good friend gifted us the use of their motorhome.
We were beyond grateful and found the solitude and peace we needed in the beautiful town of Port Campbell.
Admittedly we were in full lockdown in the motor home, but it gave us the time to mull over whether we still wanted to travel overseas.
There was so much to think about.
So many options that could occur and all at the mercy of the government and the decisions that we would not know until a future date.
Would they lift the travel restrictions before July?
How long would the 14 day quarantine continue for? If it continued into 2021, then how much of our holiday time is given up in quarantine days?
And the questions continued, until the last question we asked ourselves was, with all the information we know, do we still want to travel?
It was a heart-breaking decision, but we decided that we would put a hold on overseas travel for the immediate future.
I cried and then pulled myself together declaring there are others in worse situations, I cried and then pulled myself together declaring there are others in worse situations… and this continued for a couple of days, not even recognising that I wasn’t allowing myself to just fully grieve our situation. It wasn’t until Mr Flashpackerstravel told me I had to stop comparing myself to others and to acknowledge the despair of our situation.
Everyone’s situation was valid and important to them, and we were no different. This new perspective helped immensely and slowly we began to repair the hopes and dreams we felt that COVID had destroyed.
In the coming weeks I was listening to an Oprah podcast and she asked everyone, ‘What has this (COVID) time taught you?’
It prompted us to ask ourselves this same question.
For us at Flashpackerstravel, it’s the revisiting of our plans.
It is the requesting refunds of deposits put in place.
It’s preparing for the grief of the loss of an itinerary that we have been working on for three years.
It has been the coming together and the falling apart and the re-joining and the remembering of what we wanted from this journey together.
It’s been collecting the ingredients that we had for this recipe and reworking them to fit our new plan, our new lifestyle.
Until eventually we found joy again in a new decision that we had thought about making a long time ago and now seems the perfect time to rebirth this idea.
We look forward to introducing you to Morrie!
Stay tuned.
ps. For information on hiring this fantastic motor home when restrictions are lifted, all you need to do is click on this link;
FLASHPACKERS TRAVEL 
Well colour me intrigued 🤔
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