Off-Grid Road Tripping Made Simple
After a 47,000km lap of the continent, we’re sharing the first-hand knowledge you need for your next adventure. From off-grid caravan setups to the best regional itineraries, we provide experience-based guides to help you find the road less travelled.
We retired early to live life off-grid, prioritising free and low-cost camps over caravan parks as we towed our small caravan across Australia. We’re building Road Trip Nomads to be your most trusted resource for authentic camp reviews and high-value regional itineraries.
Pick a State and Hit the Road
Why Road Trip Nomads?
There are plenty of travel blogs out there, but we do things a bit differently. We aren’t interested in racing from one tourist trap to the next; we travel slowly, taking the time to truly appreciate the uniqueness of the regions we visit.
Our philosophy is simple: wide-open spaces over concrete slabs.
We prioritise free and low-cost camps wherever possible. To us, there is no comparison between a quiet bush camp and an overcrowded caravan park. While we aren’t fans of the “sardine-can” feel of commercial parks, we do use them occasionally when there are no other viable options, but our heart is always off the grid.
Everything you find here is based on our first-hand experience from 47,000 km on the road. We hope our insights help you skip the crowds and get the most out of your own Australian adventure.
Who Are We?
We are Rob and Muay and we hail from Perth, Western Australia. Our biggest passion is to road trip and document what we learn along the way to help others.
In the past, we have completed road trips in Western Australia, Victoria and New South Wales. This is in addition to road trips completed in the UK, New Zealand and Thailand.
For many years, we planned and dreamt of reaching financial security early enough to retire and hit the road. That point came in August 2023. After a couple of months of taking stock and getting ready, we left.
From Perth, we travelled eastwards with no schedule other than a commitment to be in Geelong by the 10th of February 2024. After Tasmania, we travelled through Victoria and New South Wales, then to Queensland, to escape the southern winter. During this time, we went to Cape York.
Once things warmed up further south, we travelled first inland through Queensland to Brisbane, before hugging the coast through New South Wales and back to Geelong.
We loved Tasmania so much that we decided to spend another nine weeks there.
After crossing back to the mainland, we travelled inland over the mountains to the mighty Murray, which we followed before heading north to the far west of Queensland to escape the winter again.
Eventually, we found ourselves in Cairns preparing for an adventure on the Savannah Way to Broome in Western Australia. That took us to some very remote and beautiful places.
After Broome, we travelled to Perth, having been away for nearly two years.
During our lap we marked the route on a map stuck to our caravan. Below shows our route.
We are now on hiatus, resting and taking some time to organise things. We will be heading off on a similar trip in February. This trip will take us to the south-west and then into the vast interior of the country, initially along the Outback Way between Laverton in WA and Winton in Queensland. This will take us down the east coast before travelling inland again to return to the Kimberley via the Old Ghan Track and the Tanami Road. Arrival back in Perth about 18 months later will end what we are calling the Figure-of-Eight Trip.
What’s Your Next Adventure?
