If you're like most mums, you probably find it hard travelling with a child in tow. With two kids, it's double the trouble.
But for this family, nothing was too much.
Patrick Jones and Meg Ulman left their home in Melbourne, Australia in 2013, along with their kids Woody and Zepher, and their pet pooch Zero, on a mission ot live off the earth and camp in as many places as possible.
The couple travelled more than 6,000km over 14 months, living off foraged plans, weeds and fish.
“I guess what we wanted to do is take our permaculture activism and our principles, through reading and studying permaculture and enacting it, and try to apply it to the road," Patrick Jones said in a talk at Melbourne Free University.
The couple have released a book “The Art of Free Travel: A frugal family adventure” which shares the secrets to the extreme budget adventure that allowed the family to explore Australia.
"The Art of Free Travel is the story of our family's home life and our 14 month bike ride to Cape York from Daylesford in southern Victoria, Australia," Patrick said.
The family are keen to keep their carbon footprint down, even when they are at home in Melbourne, and that means showering just once a week!
"We are not seeing ourselves as dropped out completely, not as total purists, but I believe that if the average Australian family lived without carbon input, we wouldn’t have a climate change crisis.”
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