Miss Kat Makeup: Driving Across the Country

This is going to be my first lifestyle post on this blog so I thought I’d start with one of the biggest events in my adult life. Moving states. Before December 2013 I lived not far from Newcastle, NSW, and now I live not far from Perth, WA, all the way on the other side of the country, I have moved approximately 3,900 kilometres away from where I’ve lived for the past 9 years. Newcastle was a pretty big part of my life, I graduated high school there and university (December 6 woot!) there and made a lot of friends (though I’ve lost contact with most of them as well but that’s life) so moving wasn’t a light decision to make. That being said I made it in about 2 days. This is the process it took me to decide to move;

Try and enrol in classes on the 11th of December

Realise you’ve finished your degree

Decide to move to Perth with a box full of makeup, 6 pairs of pants, 11 shirts, 3 scarfs, 4 jackets and a computer tower.
Drive

Okay so it wasn’t that simple, it actually took up 2 attempts to get on the road, the first time we over packed so the car was too heavy and we forgot the dogs back pain medication (poor little Wally gets an inflamed disk in his spine). Eventually though we got underway with a Holden Statesman laden with stuff we probably didn’t need all at once and we set off for a 3,900 km adventure. It took us 5 days and 4 nights of camping, we had to camp because my other dog Max has a heart murmur (he is 15) so the vet wouldn’t sign him off to fly (we had an awesome vet, always put the dogs before convenience). It was meant to tale 6 days and 5 nights but on the 4th day we realised we’d gained several hours through time zone changes and it was summer which meant longer days anyway so we kept driving for 14 hours until the sun started going down so we had to stop (only truck drivers and idiots drive through the Nullabor at night). Camping sucks but it was worth it, Max was worth it, cue the awww. And here are some pictures to commemorate the long long drive;