Digital Nomads

As some of you may know, we have pulled up stumps after our year of travelling in 2024. We weren’t sure what we wanted to do after our big trip, so we headed home and spent 2025 contemplating our next steps. We decided that we definitely weren’t finished with travel, but wanted to stick to shorter trips for the foreseeable future. Then, eventually, we would upgrade our van for an offroad version and hit WA via Western Queensland. Well, our shorter caravan trips got cut when Milton (our caravan) got written off in a hailstorm. We weren’t ready to upgrade yet, though, so we sold Betsy (BT50) and bought a sedan for the time being. So our shorter trips will have to be hotel ones for a while.

We Accidently Bought a House

We contemplated buying some land and building a nice little house on it, but all the blocks we looked at had covenants on them that dictated the minimum size house, the type of driveway, the type of house we could build etc. So we gave up on that idea and decided to stay where we were and put up with our yelling neighbours in suburbia. We ordered a brand new kitchen for our house and continued with the inside painting.

Then one Saturday, an ad appeared in my Facebook feed for a house. I opened it as I quite often do, as I like to check out what is on the market. I don’t know what it was, but I just really loved the look of it. It was a cute little house on an acre of land with lots and lots of gardens. Now, keep in mind, we are NOT gardeners. I have been known to kill a plant or 20 (and let’s not discuss the ChristmasTreegate of 2024), so this house should not have been something of interest to me. But it intrigued me, and I showed Brett, and he felt the same way. We contacted the agent to organise an inspection, went to check it out on the Monday, made an offer on Tuesday, and the offer was accepted on Tuesday night. We felt like we accidentally bought a house!

We finished painting our house, put it on the market and got to enjoy our brand new kitchen for a whole week before we moved. So here we are now at our new property, which we have called Arcadia Acres. Yes, it is only an acre, but it’s a running joke with my friends because I kept telling them we were moving to acreage. We are loving the land and growing things (we are really great at growing weeds) and enjoying the peacefulness. I’ve also discovered Sourdough, which has opened a whole can of worms!

Why are we talking about this on a Travel Blog?

We have paid for the website domain www.digitalnomadsonebyte.com, and we pay a monthly subscription to host it to keep our memories of our trip, so we figured we may as well use it. I enjoy the creativity of writing articles, and I love looking back on all our memories and sharing the IT articles with friends when they need assistance. I thought I’d like to keep writing about our experience for us and for anyone else who is interested. I’d love to start documenting the recipes I’ve created or modified as well for ease of reference. I am so sick of trying to follow recipes that start with an essay of information and stories, filtered between a hundred ads and pop-ups to get to what I am trying to cook. So I plan on adding my favourites recipes so I can easily recreate something delicious that I have made. I also get asked a lot about how I make things, but I am not great at following recipes and often make it up on the go. So it will be a nice little challenge to write down which ingredients I am using and how much. The recipe section will be a no-nonsense, ad-free zone!

We are always keen to learn new things and are terrible at doing nothing, so we are incredibly excited for this next chapter of our lives. Whether we are successfully baking sourdough or accidentally landscaping with weeds, we’d love to have you along for the ride.

We still have our Sunday night newsletter for whenever a new article drops. If you originally signed up for caravan travel and have absolutely zero interest in watching us fumble our way through this next chapter, I completely understand, so please feel free to unsubscribe with no hard feelings! But if you’re up for a bit of gardening chaos, an occasional tech tip, and some straightforward recipes, and you aren’t subscribed yet… come grow with us.

Here are the links to our new Arcadia Acres Facebook and Insta pages