YOU ONLY LIVE THRICE When it’s time to go home after living the expat dream in Australia, you could do the for the expedition of a lifetime. You only live once, after all… unless you’re the truck in Words and pictures: Richard and Sophie Morgan
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bit more than a decade ago, we realised a dream by getting jobs in Australia. For a thirty-something British couple, it was our chance to enjoy a fantastic lifestyle of year-round sunshine,
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beaches and partying with newfound friends. The life we lived Down Under was all about making the most of every day. And for that, what we needed was a big, cheap truck we could pack our friends, beers and surf-
boards into and head to the beach for the weekend! After a bit of looking, a few dollars bought us Kylie – an old knockabout Mitsubishi Pajero from 1996 with a recently rebuilt V6 engine and 245,000 kilometres on the clock.
Not much on her worked well, or at all, but we set to fixing her up as best we could and in return she took us to some incredible places as we toured our adopted home. Time passes, though. We started thinking about things like kids and
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