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A few weeks ago, Patrick Jones, Meg Ulman, and their 11-year-old son, Woody, were waking to icy cold winter mornings at their home in Daylesford, in central Victoria.

In an age where giving lifts to strangers is mostly advised against, this family sees it as their preferred option to get to India, for environmental and social reasons.

Mr Jones and Ms Ulman do not own a car, have not been overseas in 20 years, and wanted to show their son the world, in the least polluting way possible.

Their longest lift in Australia was with an Adelaide man who was moving to Darwin to work as a truck driver for Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory.

Mr Jones and his partner used to work full-time, but decided to change their lifestyles about 20 years ago, after finding they were "pretty much unhappy".

"After many conversations with locals, it was becoming increasingly apparent that crewing a boat for a family-of-three with no sailing experience was a bit of a pipe dream," the family wrote on their blog.

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