17/05/2026
Chapter 2026: Welcome to the Next Chapter – First Novel Era
To anyone new here and to those who have been following along for a while, welcome back to Nadine Travels West. I wanted to share a little recap of what I’ve achieved since starting Nadine Travels West on 9 October 2021 along with what I have planned moving forward.
This has always been about more than just one thing for me. It is my creative outlet. When I started Nadine Travels West in 2021 with a simple love for travel, history and old buildings, I wanted a space to share my photography and the places I discovered and found interesting. Over time it has slowly grown into something that reflects my life as it changes and evolves.
Since starting Nadine Travels West in October 2021:
• Began with 0 followers and simply a space to share travel, history and old places
• Grew to over 700+ followers on Instagram
• Built a Facebook community
• Expanded into YouTube with Project Nade, reaching over 400+ subscribers
• Most viewed YouTube video: Road Trip – Peak Hill Holden – Untouched EH with 11K+ views
This space is where I share stories from road trips in Aussie classic cars, forgotten places, rural and remote Australia, history and moments captured along the way. It has never been perfectly structured, just honestly lived and shared.
Anyone who has searched how to grow a following online will know the advice about structure, schedule, sticking to one niche and not overcomplicating things. I always felt what I shared was a little scattered, planning trips on days off without a fixed structure for uploading content.
I really want to get back into sharing what I love and reconnect with the community I’ve built online. In October 2021 I started the page with no followers, shared it to my personal account and slowly family and friends began following along. I then created a website to write blog posts for each location I visited. After that I created an Instagram account and that is where things really took off. In doing so I may have neglected the page and website simply because I did not yet know how to manage it all together.
So in this next chapter I want to try new things and bring everything back together and better connected.
This is also a space that now connects across platforms. So what you can expect to see:
• History and Old Buildings
• Travel and Australian Road Trips
• Classic Cars including finding old Holden dealerships and Australian motoring history
• Novel in the making, sharing the process of writing a novel as a novice and the story and places that inspire it
You can also find me here:
Instagram .travels.west
YouTube Project Nade
There is also a website for Nadine Travels West currently being rebuilt in the background which will return later this year when it is ready.
This is not a restart. It is a continuation.
Thank you for being here whether you have just found this page or have been here since the beginning. I am looking forward to sharing the next chapter.
Nadine
