Time to Roam Magazine Issue 3 - June/July 2013 | Page 38

Living the dream
Steve and Stella Potter and their kids Darcy and Raine left
their home in the small country WA town of Boyanup to embark
on their idea of the family dream – travelling around Australia
in a 51 year-old caravan. Steve takes up the story.

A moment of reflection. Hiking to Arkaroo Rock. Flinders Ranges, SA

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I awake and part the orange
coloured curtains of the van to inspect
another new morning in paradise,
hoping for another clear day.
Paradise can take a number of forms
while travelling. Sometimes it’s a beach
vista, sometimes a lush green forest,
sometimes a desert. On the other hand,
when free camping on a roadside truckstop, the view of paradise may be the side
of a truck trailer next to a busy highway.
It is usually our four year old daughter
Raine who wakes first and I hear her each
morning as she chatters away to herself
in a whisper, playing with her toys at the
other end of the van behind the curtain.
I often lie there and listen to her as she
creates make-believe worlds, her soft toys as
the characters. She will often tiptoe up to