The luckiest road trippers in Australia celebrated their arrival in Cessnock with local residents and travel enthusiasts at BIG4 Hunter Valley.

Imagine taking to the road in a 13-week expenses paid trip. That is just what Cairns travel blogger, “Adventure Mumma” Kate Richards, her partner Rob Mitchell and children Josh and Charlie are doing to raise funds and awareness for breast cancer research.

I’m pleased to say our first official Happy Hour run by ourselves (and with the support of the Done & Dusted crew, Peta and Kirk) was a Rip Roaring success

Three travelling tribes, winners of Dometic’s “Follow the Sun” campaign, set off from Cairns on Monday to explore various vanning routes to Melbourne.

What’s one of the first things you do after winning a three month caravanning trip but have done most of your camping in tents?

Booking accommodation via Airbnb was a first for me but I thought it was about time I gave it a go.

This past June’s Queensland Caravan, Camping & Touring Supershow saw the three main Dometic ‘Follow the Sun‘ Ambassadors for 2016 announced.

Saving lives while on holiday doesn’t really sound plausible, right? Well think again!

We are Dometic Australia Follow the Sun WINNERS!!!! And you seriously can’t wipe the smile off my face right now.

Its hard not to get just a little bit excited when school holidays fall during winter in the tropics… This is our peak season for tourists and its easy to see why.

It’s time for Cairns’ own Adventure Mumma to hit the road with her family after winning a national competition to travel Australia.

I’m a country girl at heart and thanks to our location, way up in the north of Australia, so are my kids. They have yet to experience the delights of a big ‘southern’ city

I’m a big believer of pursuing your passions. It’s what’s been driving me for the past 40 years of my life (for the first 8 years I was busy just being a kid).

They see me rolling and they have NO idea at how ‘cool’ it really is. Personally I would never have rated cruising on a Segway – BUT…

Up on stage they were dancing, and you could see the twitch of a kangaroo’s ear, the stamp of a paw, and the cheeky attitude of the youngster as he stirred the big roo into action.

I’ve always been happy to go to the Pullman Cairns International. With its huge colonial style entrance, floor to ceiling arch windows, plush furniture, decadent fixtures and sweeping staircase

Unstructured play outdoors, especially in nature, is a vital part of a child’s development and Tropical North Queensland is the perfect place for kids to experience nature at its best.

It’s loud, busy, dusty and dirty and sometimes even muddy BUT aficionados wouldn’t want it any other way. It’s the UCI MTB World Cup

Would you like to know our dirty little secret? As much as we (Rob and I) love living and working in Cairns the first opportunity we have for ‘couple time’ we are in the car and heading north

Adventurer Kate Richards has found a way to combine the loves of her life - family, fun, photography and the great outdoors - as a modern-day storyteller sharing her world with thousands others.