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Port Augusta SA · 23 MIN · JUN 2026
I Didn't Expect Van Life to Feel Like This
“Month one. Cold nights, a laptop and a lot of thinking.”
Currently: Adelaide SA · 209 DAYS to 100 km
G'day, I'm Mark. I keep saying yes
to things, then filming what happens.
Vegan meals, long runs, vanlife, wrong turns. Road trips around Australia, filmed from a HiAce.
where I turned around
Latest video
I Knew Something Wasn't Right | Alice Springs Got Me
Alice Springs NT · 35 MIN · AUG 2026
The trip didn't go to plan. This one's about turning the van around, and why that was the right call.
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Three videos that explain me better than an About page could.
02Mt Dare SA · 46 MIN · AUG 2026
I Wasn't Ready to Leave
“I came for a night or two. Stayed a week. Blame the pub dogs.”
03Alice Springs NT · 35 MIN · AUG 2026
I Knew Something Wasn't Right
“The honest side of solo travel.”
The story so far · 9 places
Where I've left a mark (and where places left one on me).
The first big trip. North from Adelaide, as far as Alice Springs.
Mt Dare SA
Australia's most remote pub, a week of pub dogs and the Dalhousie hot springs down the track.
Alice Springs NT
Where the trip stopped going to plan, and I turned the van around.
Port Augusta SA
Month one. Head of the gulf, cold nights, a lot of thinking.
What's next
Three things on the list.
Two ways in
Mostly it's vanlife. Sometimes it's a long run, or a vegan meal at a servo.
Vanlife
The first big trip in a 2019 HiAce. A lap north that didn't quite go to plan, and the honest bits about living and working from a van.
6 videosHiAceWorking remote
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Road to 100
In September I ran 56 km on about seven weeks of training. It went better than it had any right to. So naturally I've entered a 100 km race on 15 May 2027. I'll show you every bit of it, including the ugly bits.
I Went From the Couch to a 56KM Ultra in 6 Weeks
The Yurrebilla Trail 56 km ultra in the Adelaide Hills. Six weeks from short runs to the start line.
Km 0Longest so far: 56 km100
My first 100 km training block, filmed from the van. It'll turn up here when it exists.
- Race day
- 15 May 2027
- Days to go
- 209
- Longest run
- 56 km
More doors open when there's enough behind them: Kitchen Cycling
About
The van's still here.
A bloke in his 40s. Adelaide-based, always on the road. Vegan eating, long runs, and a van some of the time. I work in SEO and keep entering things I'm underqualified for.
It's just not the whole story anymore. (And yes, it's Waz with a z.)
not an expert. just there.
Work with me
Gear I've taken out has been somewhere hard and come back.
If your product can survive corrugations, red dust and me, let's talk. Got something that's been somewhere hard? I'd love to try it the honest way.
Sent to test in the van. Not a paid partnership.
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- Australian audience
Stats as of October 2026
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Follow the next bad idea.
New videos (pretty) regularly on YouTube.