The Art of Free Travel

<p><strong>Patrick Meg and their family had built a happy sustainable life in regional Victoria. But in late 2013 they found themselves craving an adventure: a road trip.</strong></p><p>But theirs was a road trip with a difference. With Zephyr (10) Woody (1) and Zero their Jack Russell they set off on an epic 6000km year-long cycling journey along Australia’s east coast from Daylesford to Cape York and back.</p><p>Their aim was to live as cheaply as possible − guerrilla camping hunting foraging and bartering their permaculture skills and living on a diet of free food bush tucker and the occasional fresh road kill. They spent time in Aboriginal communities joined an anti-fracking blockade documented edible plants and dodged speeding cars and trucks on the country’s most dangerous highways. <em>The Art of Free Travel</em> is the remarkable story of a rule-breaking year of ethical living.  </p>