There isn’t a soul among us who hasn’t trudged, bleared-eyed into work to do some repetitive shit for the umpteenth day running that hasn’t occasionally fantasised about packing it all up, leaving it all behind, just jumping in a ute and driving, driving till you reach the middle of bumfuck nowhere and no one can contact you because whoops! you left your phone behind and there’s no reception anyway.
If it is the former, then ‘Strayan bloke ‘The Camp Man‘ – real name Dale, last name pending (our q’s were met with an autoreply telling us he’s “stuck on an island” and might take a while to get back to us) – might be your new hero.
He’s ya typical country bloke with a dog, a ute, and a bloody great pair of servo sunnies, but lives his life on the road and out of his trailer, just working when he needs the funds and basically doing whatever the hell he wants.
You might already know him: his Facebook page has 25,000 likes and he’s even got his own merch:
Last year I was fishing at a spot in the NT, I meant these lovely young lady’s, a year on and they stayed in touch with…
Posted by The Camp Man on Tuesday, 5 April 2016
But his latest post is going bonkers viral.
In it, Dale explains just how he manages to live the drifter nomad life, and spoiler: it’s simple AF. Call it the modern Australian interpretation of Tim Ferriss‘ ‘The 4 Hour Work Week‘.
“My life in about 3 minutes,” he writes on Facebook. “To show you anyone can live this way.”
My life in about 3 mins ??. To show you anyone can live this way ??
Posted by The Camp Man on Monday, 11 April 2016
Don’t quit ya day job.
