Our two first nights in the car

The first two nights in our new car is over, and it has been quite an experience so far. On Friday we arrived Southport on the Gold Coast late at night. We had found a camping site on the Internet, but due to the dark, and I guess also the tiered people in the car, we couldn't find it. We drove around looking for other camping sites, but everywhere we went, they were closed. We were tiered and wanted to get some sleep so we drove around more remote places to find a spot where we could park for the night. When we finally found a spot in a neighborhood close to a park with public toilet we tried to go to sleep. Our backpacks were just thrown into the car, so we tried to lie down in the middle of everything. With no curtains we felt like people could watch us from the street and we got a bit paranoid... JT could not sleep in the back so he slept a little bit in the front seat. I managed to sleep after a while, but only very light. I remember I was thinking "What the h*** are we doing!?! This is crazy!" In the despair of not knowing what to do and where to sleep I started having doubts about this whole living-in-a-car lifestyle. 

Saturday, in other words; yesterday, we woke up (if you can call it to wake up when you haven't really slept) around 5.30 or something. I wanted to try to drive (the day before JT drove) so we drove around the block a bit and then we started to head for a place where we could buy some storage boxes and other stuff for the car, and a place to wash the car. When the car was washed we went to this big store where we got boxes, and then we packed everything out of the backpacks. After some hours in the parking-lot, with red shoulder that had been forgotten in all the box-business, we started looking for a place where we could find a mattress and some curtains, or fabric to make curtains. Three people tried to explain the way to the same store, but a misunderstanding regarding the motorway made it very hard to find. We finally found it and bought a mattress and some curtains that were on sale. It started raining, for the first time since we got to Australia, so we went back into Southport and found the camping site that we tried to find the night before (the reason we didn't find it was because we were looking in the wrong place). We got our spot for the car and we made the curtains fit. We now have privacy and, in our opinion, it looks pretty good :) Tonight we slept like babies! All the doubts from the first night are gone! We have made this car into a home in just a few hours :) 

We have to stay here in Southport until Monday because we have to go to the Department of Transport to get the car signed in our name, and we have to do that in Queensland. After that we're planning to go a bit south before heading up north. I don't know where we're going first, but we want to go to Byron Bay and Nimbin (the Amsterdam of Australia) and anywhere along the way where there's a beach calling for us :)

Love our life :)

Lotte