GORV - Digital Magazine Issue #38 | Page 21

Signs like these have been popping up around the country. However, it has been heartwarming to read about people who own large blocks of land offering their land to travellers with nowhere else to go as a place to park up for the duration of this pandemic, among other offers of kindness. PLEASE, PEOPLE… Please always choose kindness where you can. You simply do not know what anyone is going through right now, as all of our situations are so different. CRUISE SHIPS OF THE OUTBACK A massive weight was lifted off our shoulders when we eventually received confirmation we could stay where we are now to ride this out. Being referred to as the ‘cruise ships of the outback’ only fuelled the hate that we and others like us have been feeling. In most cases, those who live full-time in their caravans had already been in the towns for weeks when lockdown occurred, but were still moved on like lepers, as if they (and us) already had the virus and would spread it all around. But there are still so many travellers who don’t have that security, as if their safety and human rights don’t matter. It is the worst feeling in the world to be unwanted like that. To fear that we would be given ‘move on’ orders, forcing us out onto the road when there was a clear ‘no travelling’ rule, was almost too hard to handle. FOLLOW KOOL KAMPERS The Kool Kampers family pictured on a hike, long before the crisis took hold. The Kool Kampers tribe is a family of five travelling Australia full-time. For their own safety, they have requested that we don’t publish their current whereabouts. KOOLKAMPERS.NET FACEBOOK INSTAGRAM YOUTUBE