Authors

Bec travels solo in a Troopcarrier with a camper on the back, chasing empty free camps and dark skies across the top end and the Kimberley. She writes about self-sufficiency: water, solar, staying legal and staying safe a long way from the nearest town.

Dusty spent 20 years with his head under bonnets before he started writing about the tracks he'd been fixing rigs to get across. He's blunt about what will and won't survive a river crossing, and he's recovered enough bogged vans to have opinions.

Kellie tows a family van up and down the east coast with two primary-schoolers and a dog. She reviews caravan parks the way a parent actually uses them: camp kitchen, jumping pillow, whether the amenities are clean at 7am, and whether the powered site is worth the extra twenty bucks.

Marto sold the house in 2017, bought a 21-foot off-road van and hasn't looked back. He obsesses over tyre pressures, tow-ball weight and the exact moment the corrugations start on a desert track. If a route is in this site, chances are he's dragged a van over it.

Priya came to caravanning from an electrical trade and now spends her time working out why someone's fridge keeps flattening their battery. She reviews solar, lithium, DC-DC chargers and the apps people plan trips with, and she's sceptical of anything a brochure promises.

Trev and his wife Denise have been doing laps of the country since he hung up the boots. He knows which pubs let you camp out the back, which servo has the good pies, and which showground is worth the donation. He writes the way he yarns — slowly, and with a tangent.