This question is asked multiple times a day on the socials, and rightly so, when we are leaving the conventional way of life, you worry about the impact this will have on the most important people in your life… your kids!!

In my year of planning our big adventure, marking out all the exciting places to go, How I was going to educate my kids was running parallel with all my research and scrolling time. It was always on my mind…. sound familiar?

I want to be completely honest with you - I got so stressed about home-schooling, in the beginning.

I guess I had my own insecurities in my abilities as home educator, and constantly felt overwhelmed at the responsibility of it all.

Early on in our trip, we had some challenging times trying to get Maddie to do anything remotely school work related and it stressed me out so much. I felt like I was failing her and had made the wrong decision to pull her out of school and to home educate while travelling Australia.

I must admit, during my time researching about the dinosaur trail, I found it hard to locate the information I needed and I spent a lot of time online trying to plan our days and piece together the must see activities at each location.

There was so much that I wish I had known when I arrived at each of the attractions that would have been helpful to know beforehand to make our day more enjoyable.

We had wanted to visit Gladstone on our trip, but time wasn’t on our side and unfortunately instead of staying a week, which is what we would have preferred, we only had one weekend!,

There were 3 things that I loved about Gladstone, and they were completely unexpected, to what I was presuming I would enjoy.!

Hughenden had an awesome free camp available to its visitors. It was a little on the dusty side, but we are in the outback after all.

The Hughenden Discovery Centre was included on our Dino Trail ticket, although I would say you get a lot more for your money because as well as the dinosaur part of the centre, they also have a fantastic modern interactive exhibit on the town itself.

We parked and hooked up to power in Richmond. It was a welcome reprieve and gave us a chance to do our washing, run the air-conditioning at night and to just spread out and enjoy our own space..

Kronosaurus Korner was really good. It had loads of learning for the kids, and some areas where the kids were encouraged to touch the fossils.

My kids have been completely blessed in their road-schooling journey this past 2 months as we ventured into outback Queensland, We have definitely been in the right town at the right time to watch some incredible community theatre productions!

The kids LOVED dressing up at the Mary Poppins museum

This Winton sign, as you come into the town, is becoming a popular photo spot for tourist. The “I” is optional, and can be put down, if you wanted to use a human “I” instead - thank you Hannah