Welcome to the Mobile Madhouse Blog!

Hello there! So glad you stopped by.

I'm Rosie (Rosita) and I'm the only sane one in this place. Well, maybe sane isn't the right word - maybe 'least disturbed'...

This place is the Mobile Madhouse: me, hubs, a kelpie, a kelpie-dingo, a husky and a psychotic, sociopathic rainbow lorikeet. We have no set home, we travel and work. All the time, it's what we do.

Right now (November 2018) we are in the Maranoa region of Queensland, on 65,000 acres of red dust. It's a cattle station, and it is DRY! Well, sort of. We got 50mm of rain 5 days ago, and bits are starting to green, the dams are all at least half full and the livestock are happy; that's the story on the northern end of the place. To the south, even though it got 45mm, it looks much the same as it did before the rain, except the dams have more water in them; there is no green.

We (T and I) have been doing this since 2014; we sold up all our stuff and bought a bus in Adelaide in 2012. We drove back Melbourne along the Great Ocean Road, sleeping on the bus seats on the side of the road, seeing the sights and meeting some lovely people.

Back in Tasmania after a freezing trip back on the Spirit of Tasmania, sleeping in seats (never again), we parked up in our son's driveway, stripped out the seats and windows, put in a few cupboards, a table, a bed, lights and power points and hit the road. And then we made good our escape. We made sure to get a cabin on the Spirit when we did it - I meant it when I said never again! When we got to Melbourne, we flipped a coin and headed up the east coast to Queensland. I'll take you on that journey through photos at a later point.

Since then, we've rattled around bits of southern Qld, and spent 10 months in SA. We've been gifted another grandson (we already had one of those when we left Tassie), and two of our children have become engaged. The dogs and bird also came on board; the bird is a Queenslander, as is the kelpie. The kelpie-dingo is a Victorian (like T) and the husky is a South Aussie. In spite of our disparate backgrounds and vastly different personalities, we make it work.