Steve and Carol left England 21 years ago with two kids and a simple deal: give it a go, and if it doesn't work out, you can always go back. They've never looked back.Since then they've lived in a van, done what they like to call a half lap of Australia, and been buzzed by an Air Force plane.Steve and Carol dropped in to the Peaceful Place on the Fraser Coast for a holiday from Brisbane, and we pulled up a couple of chairs for a yarn.In this one:Two years living in the van, and why you can't do a lap in three months.Three weeks stuck at Green Hill Lake, across the water from Ararat Jail, with the fish-and-chip shop for company.The day an Air Force plane buzzed them on the road into Katherine, and why nobody got it on a dash cam.Leaving England, and what friends back home say now: "I wish I did that."A Land Rover that needed rescuing, a long tow home from Elliott Heads, and the Ranger that came next.How they found the Peaceful Place on Wikicamps, and the sunset they still hadn't seen.Stopped for a While is an audio storytelling podcast from MacMouth Media. Caravan travellers, grey nomads and retirees pull up at the Peaceful Place on the Fraser Coast near Hervey Bay and tell the stories behind their journeys. Find every episode wherever you get your podcasts.

Peter has been a bank lender, a floor and wall tiler for 45 years, and a fixture around Corowa and Mansfield. He tells us how a table for one at the Tin Can Bay yacht club turned into a second chance at love — and why every September he walks 78 kilometres for the 78 Australians lost to pancreatic cancer each week.

Peter lost his wife of over 50 years to pancreatic cancer just eight weeks after her diagnosis. Since then he's raised thousands for Pankind's Remember September campaign, and he wants more people to know the numbers behind it.

Support the cause any time of year: https://www.rememberseptember.org.au

Stopped for a While is the podcast about the travellers who roll into the Peaceful Place on the Fraser Coast, just north of Hervey Bay, and the stories they bring with them. Brought to you by MacMouth Media.

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New van, three months in, and already learning the hard way. Blue and Jenny from Rockhampton stop in to swap stories about off-grid mishaps, a flooded campsite from decades back, thieving goannas, and the slow-travel Tassie trip they're counting down to. Pull up a chair.