all tell people that line dancing is the healthiest addiction out there so you really it's
it can be for everyone it can be as easy as you want it to be or as hard as you want it to be so
um yeah i just love that you can you can there's so many dances but you can do them all to
any different music and it's just it's a fantastic way to bring people together so there's been times
when i've been you know just teaching some friends at a campsite or something like that
and then before you know it there's some people hanging around and they want to learn as well
in my last year of uni in 2018 i moved out to gatlin for an ag research project and when i
moved out there i thought i'm going to try and get really stereotypically country even
after that first lesson i was like i think i've got i think i've got a new favorite and
just loved it kept going um yeah once or twice a week and then one of the weeks kate walked in
so line dancing for me um it actually all started uh in about 2016. i was working on a station
up in uh around camerawheel up in the north um and ended up having to come home about mid-year
about july and my parents were like yep we love having you home but you need to do something
off the farm meet some people your own age um so we so i was scrolling through facebook one
day and came across toowoomba line dancing fun and fitness and being a fan of uh the footloose movie
so that was sort of how i fell into it and it was on one of those nights a couple years
later that i met claire and it was in one of the first conversations we ever had that was like
oh wouldn't it be cool to maybe one day do this and here we are it's just about having fun
being able to you know let your hair down kick your heels up and have a bit of a
laugh at yourself and just get out and meet some awesome people it's a 20 000 kilometer
line dancing road trip around australia raising money for seven incredible uh rural charities
so uh we've bought a secondhand pride we've got a rooftop camper and then we've got yeah
everything that we think we'll need for the next 10 months somehow shoved in there
so we started with our launch party which was in tulum on the 5th of march
we did a few events on the sunshine coast then we went up to bundy now we're in rockhampton
uh we're going into central queensland with a few events in emerald and illegal and longreach
we're going down to birdsville where we'll be attending the races uh we're dipping briefly
into south australia for one or two things and then we are heading north again up to
alice springs darwin and once we get to darwin it's basically an anti-clockwise route back around
with tazzy which will be in about october and then back up through new south wales
and yeah back in southeast queensland in time for christmas it is a bit daunting in the way
that you know we don't know what will come on but we know that there'll be days when we're thinking
why the hell have we done this there'll be days where we think we just
it's just the best thing we love it and there'll be everything in between so it's daunting in a way
of what's to come but it's equal parts exciting as well of we yeah what is to come so you just
don't know and we think it will be a fantastic thing and if nothing else a fantastic adventure
hmm