My partner and I both 25 just spent 3.5 months travelling in a rear fold campers. close to 20k spent and nothing was spared always ate proper food and did all the sight seeing we could! I think people underestimate the running cost/repairs on their set up. A must is total care! Get towed anywhere!
We spent 12 months full time on the road. We missed nothing and enjoyed everything. 45000km and close to $65000. Think that worked out at about $1.40/km. Really think the $1/km that so many talk about is running a very economical tow vehicle, and not spending anything on tours or entries. So double your 6 months expenses and your close to what we spent in 12 months. Dont worry about about what it costs, just enjoy it as you might never see these place's again.
Agree mate and thanks for sharing! I find for shorter trips the $1 a km is a touch closer but not so much the longer your on the road. Right in the ball park mate so perfect and of course, but if you are wanting to live on the road for a long period of time it’s not a holiday anymore and do have to be half smart with your money! Legend mate cheers!
We have been on the road 9 months now, finding our overall costs at about $1000 per week. That's total costs for all food, van parks, fuel, maintenance ect. Was more than I had anticipated but that's van life. Loving every minute.
If we take the 200 series with van away it’s around $1450 a week over 4 weeks but if we take the old 80 series with swags it’s around $750 a week over 4 weeks
Oh my I didn’t realise the cost of traveling was so high 😱👀 anyhow it’s all about budgeting against home ownership costs & lifestyle that matters. I manage a caravan park in Victoria if you’re ever interested in visiting 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
Finally.. real world numbers and no fluff.. We the wife and I & our Staffy Roxy spent 1.5yrs travelling Oz from Jan 19 till mid 2020 when Covid ended our trip 😖 Easily $1200pw Similar expenditures. We’re not done yet.. currently building a MOG into a expedition vehicle to hit the road for round two late 2022.
Thanks for watching guys! Very close figures! Hell yeah keen to see the mog that will be an absolute weapon! Enjoy guys hopefully see you on the road 🍻
Yep. Did it in 2013. Sold the house and took off for 6 months in a motor home. Both of us took long service at half pay and it was $1000 a week to free camp, diesel, food, some caravan parks…. We lived comfortably because we had no bills except storage for furniture at Kennards which was f#$k all at the time. Newby’s would be surprised at how it ads up. Add in repairs on the way. You can’t live a good life travelling on the dole anymore. Totally agree with your calcs.
Oh wow awesome guys sounds like it would of been a good adventure! Yeah spot on especially these days yeah you can definitely do it cheap but again that old $1000 a week always comes very close! Thanks guys appreciate you watching!
Wow we did the lap in 1989 in a Kombi camper towing a trailer with a dirt bike. Budgeted $1000 a month. All realitive I guess. We have just ordered a new caravan so will be doing it again. Great insight to the current costs of being on the road.
No worries mate! Thanks heaps for watching along! Doesn’t chew as much as you’d think mate, we have an episode coming up in a few weeks on the patrol and cover the fuel economy, keep an eye out if you’re curious mate! Thanks again for watching! 🙌🏼
Thanks guy great vid, we tend not to count food in our costing. We feel that not matter we’re you live you need to eat. We go out for dinner once a week at home so we usual do the same when we travel. We find we drink more, because we have a happy hour while on the road that’s what we don’t do at home. Any why thanks we really enjoy your travels.
Thanks for watching! Yeah fair enough! We Definately include food as it’s one of the biggest expense whilst travelling full time, Definately drink more haha! Thanks heaps for following along, we appreciate it!
Thanks for the vids really information by real people , I’ve done a lot of travelling alone , even just travelling for work , traveled from Darwin to port Augusta to broken hill across to Coffs Harbour stopped at manaparinka Ayres rock all the pubs , the salt lakes and so on , I took 4 weeks to travel home from Darwin, I lived simply but didn’t starve, I free camped the whole way , little gas burner stove and a small fridge to keep meat fresh along with butter and the usuals , all up around 2k including fuel and beer and national park entry fees , I was in a Nissan Pathfinder gas/petrol, but it didn’t matter which I ran it on still worked out the same cost for gas because u just don’t get the ks of petrol! Best attraction was Ayres Rock and the old pubs , this was in 2016 , even with fuel prices now I really think if u simplify and are happy enough to go rough it a bit u can do it under 500$ per week !
Love it mate! Sounds like an epic adventure you had too! And you're exactly right, if you rough it and go without the luxuries you can definitely do it for $500 or under! Thanks for watching mate 🍻
Hi Guys love your videos. Love your van setup. Mikayla has done a lovely job styling it :) Can I ask Mikayla where she got her hat from please? I would love to get one similar but can find one anywhere :)
Would love to see a video about travelling with your dog, what limitations it has given you, how many areas could you not go due to National Parks etc. We are in the process of selling everything to live in a caravan full time, but ours will be with a Labrador & Dalmatian!!
Hey guys thanks for watching! Yep we have a full episode planned on this as we get asked basically daily haha! Its all planned just waiting until we get out of this caravan park and head somewhere to film it! Cheers guys!
Good stuff guys. Just be careful leaving Georgia in the van with a/c on. We had a bloke turn our power off by accident. Lucky we don’t have a dog. It was like 38c prob 45 c in van.
Great vid, is that bush barrier protection you have, do you take it off regularly ? I've heard it can effect the paint if left on for extended periods (more than a few weeks)
Thanks mate! Yeah sure is! We leave it on for quite a while, just have to break the surface and clean every few days and try avoid sitting in really hot sun all day. Going to do a video about them so stay tuned! Cheers!
BUSHMANS? We found Aerogard was not as good. Have you tried anything else to get rid of those annoying flies that is better than Bushmans? We've just stared following your videos. Great advice. We have travelled around the East coast with a small 1978 Millard twice. Once with 3 teenagers then on our own. Now we have a 19.6 with toilet shower. So much better. Keep enjoying yourself and we will see you on the road one day.
If you like free beach camps, there's a beach just north of beach you can stay at. If you're near perth again my gf and I would love to 4wd and camp with yas
Cheers mate! We have another run down on the car coming soon mate! Filmed it all up in Broome but then got deleted! Waiting to get a few more things done then will get into the long term review. Stay tuned for a few van videos 😉
@@Travellingcampers awesome mate cheers for that Can’t wait! That’s a huge contributing factor in hooking you and setting sail the initial outlay. Keep up the great content 🍺
Thanks for that mate! Happy to share figures mate but the spreadsheet has some of our personal things in as well. Its easy to knock one up on excel mate! Cheers!
Thank you!! I'm wanting to do a month in September using Travelbarn camper/van rental. Coming from the US just an estimate how much would you think it would cost, not including the camper just food and petrol. thanks
Sweet mate how exciting! Ummm it’s a real hard one to give someone else’s budget mate. We ran through seperate food and petrol costs mate, you should be able to set a rough budget from those ☺️
As one of the “oldies” you mentioned, surely the biggest expense in you doing your trip is the one you haven’t covered, and won’t discover until you do finally stop and get a base. Now be that land or a home, it’s going to cost you a lot of money to get back on the housing ladder. The average 4-2-2 home in Brisbane has probably gone up 250-300k in the last 18 months. Something that your average working Joe has to consider when deciding to “get off the couch” and just do it. 99% of the population just can’t afford to or afford to take the risk as appealing as it may be.
The video is for travelling expenses mate to give people a guide on roughly what it may cost to get out for a few months, 6 months or 12! We sold our house and don’t plan on getting another any time soon and travel full time, but that’s just us we aren’t saying you should do that the purpose of the whole video is to give a rough idea of costs to help people decide what may suite them to get out and explore Australia! Having a mortgage and being locked down isn’t appealing to us! Thanks for your input mate and hopefully can get out for a holiday soon ☺️
@@Travellingcampers I understand exactly what the purpose of the video is. However, unless you intend being nomadic for ever then at some point a land or home purchase will be required. At this point you will find out how much extra being out of the loop will cost on top of the “travelling expenses”. Another RU-vid traveller spent six months touring, they didn’t sell their home and their costs were over 120k including their mortgage repayments.
@@andytee5677 Nice mate! This video is all about OUR experience and expenses not someone else's, putting a future house into the spreadsheet from someone that may want a rough idea for a 3 month trip doesn't make sense. Not everyone wants to sell their house, we did, I could go back and buy that house again for cash because of the business we have built, it wasn't just a sell everything and travel until the funds run out. We plan on being on the road for as long as we want, again mate this is just about our experience and giving some rough numbers to help some people out to get out and do whatever they wanna do. Can't please everyone!
@@Travellingcampers so those that don’t sell do have the cost of their house on top. Not that I guess you’ll be bothered, but you’re starting to slip down the same road as TIAV and ADU
@@andytee5677 I honestly don’t even know where your going with this or why you have gotten so upset, literally made this video to help people with some rough travel figures to get out and travel Australia and go out of our way to share our figures and experience. I’m sorry I didn’t include the price of a house in there, what figures you got out of the video just add 600,000 for your trip and you’ll be sweet! I hope you got some sort of value out of it, and that’s a real offence mate, we aren’t nothing like them, you obviously don’t know anything about us or what we are about, if you truely think that please don’t watch the channel again 🙌🏼
If I had $33,715 dollars to spend and went to a cheap country in Asia I could party for years on that much money. It costs a fortune to travel in Australia even if you lived off the land and free camped.
That’s cool if you want to go spend 33k in Asia mate I honestly couldn’t think of anything worse. Again this is just our experience and we love travelling in our own country Australia, plenty of ways to make it work on different budget levels. Cheers for watching!
@@Travellingcampers I love Australia as much or more than you, but I have traveled extensively overseas. I would hate to think how long I could stay in Peru or Ecuador on that much money.
It is true Australia is expensive compared to Asian countries. For the sort of money I spent on my vehicle set up (Y62S5) and trips in Australia, I could have gone around the World a few times. I love this place and I am happy that my money goes back into the community. Satisfied.
Sorry, I can’t relate to your concept of budget for travelling around Australia. . Ok , you are towing a big van, consuming masses of fuel ( big carbon footprint) not my idea of getting out there with nature.
Run an online affiliate marketing company mate. Ran my own business for 7 years before it, lot of hard work, took risks, got out of our comfort zone, not easy but just made it happen mate as its how we wanted to do life! Cheers!
Seem to be a lot of people doing online affiliate marketing, can I ask what is it you do , it might make a great video to do . Im interested in how it woks , how much you can one make , do you put much time into it . Cheers 🍻
Great episode! Would love to see you meet up with other you tubers like #Livinglikekings and have a fire side chat about travelling. May I ask what your online businesses are, sorry newby here.
Thank you! Never heard of those guys but we do meet up with a lot of other instagram and RU-vidrs! We run an online affiliate marketing company, reach out through our social media if you are interested :) Cheers!
Was just about to subscribe as we have been enjoying your videos to help plan out trip and then the comment about never going back to Victoria while Dan Andrews is there. So unnecessary making political comments in this platform.
Hey mate! When you experience it yourself, have friends and family that have lost businesses, took their own life from the crap that’s gone on the last few years, it’s quite natural to have a bit of a sour taste. We are going back to Victoria this month, we love Victoria but personally won’t live there and that’s totally fine we can have an opinion based on our own experience which is basically what our whole channel is about as we travel around, nothing but our experience and journey! Glad to hear you guys are enjoying the videos, see you out there one day!
I’ll let you know after we get our tax done 😆 between RU-vid and more so our online business we create content to do what we do so yeah a lot of it will be mate, still Gunna be a decent tax bill tho I’m feeling!
