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Hi to fellow nomads
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Hello fellow travellers, I hope the journey is proving wonderful. I'm at the tail end of a community health career, and have spent years saving up for a caravan and a vehicle that will take me off the highway. Half way there, own the van but the vehicle is financed but have decided to set sail re...
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Hello to all from Hewy54
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Hi there. I have been a member of other forums for years - lots of reading, not much posting. I am a recently retired (18months ago) school teacher, looking to get a few more things done before we head off on more trips. We have a Vista Crossover XL (after upgrading from tent to softfloor camper to Kimberl...
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Nomads in Training
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Nearly time to pull the pin! 70 series is all tricked up still ironing out a few bugs in the Starcraft, I would like to reciprocate and share the mods to our van following the excellent ideas from this forum. Nada & Brian
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Kingdom Kensington 2012
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Hi Folks, Another newbie hits the forum. My wife and I have been around once many years ago when the children were under ten ,now over thirty, we bush camped (as in tents)as much as posibble for 18 months, best life experience we and I our children have ever had. Now its time to crank up and do it again ,but...
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Hello to all
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Hi fellow Nomads, We recently purchased our first van, a 21 foot Montana, affectionately now known as Monty. We have been on several short trips, and so far have found out a whole lot of what NOT to do. We hope to spend more time travelling, as my husband is now retired. After a bad bullying experience at w...
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Greetings!
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Hello, newbies Neil and Chris from Albany here, retired, drive a Triton dual cab pulling a Bailey Barcelona, been through the ranks of Swagging it, tents, camper now caravanning!!
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Newbies
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Hi All, Hubby & I have ordered our new caravan which we will be taking delivery of next June. We have previously camped so are looking forward to some luxury. For our first trip we are driving from Brisbane to Melbourne to collect the van, then then off to Darwin. We are taking 6 weeks to do this and w...
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Hello from two new nomads
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Big hello from us both Dave and Addy We are a couple of expats (British) and decided we had had enough of the rat-race so in may this year we sold everything and now we are just travelling around Asia. Recently we went to Brisbane to look at a nice little 4x4 rig and we liked it so much we have ordered one and s...
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A BIG WELCOME TO ALL NEW GREY NOMADS..
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A big welcome to all new Nomads who have recently subscribed to this very informative Forum.There is a (sticky) post called WHO IS THIS on the top of the page in the I DIGRESS Forum, which is a competition that has been running continuously now for several months where people post photos of famous peo...
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Introducing me myself and I
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Hi my name is Jo and I am new to this site. I have a jayco small camper trailer eg Dove which is have had for close to 4 years and love to go away with friends. At first I would only go in the car and van if someone would come with me as all my travel friends are couples and have caravans. Once I got used to towing and...
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Introducing myself
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Hello, I am Ludwik Kowalski (see Wikipedia)
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G,day from the Drover
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Hi everyone, just to introduce myself: I am towing a 2014 Lotus Trooper with my 2010 Landcruiser 79 series tray with an alu body on the back and usually a Hurricane Kayak on the roof. I spent the early years of my working life on the land, and then went into the road transport industry for the next 45 years m...
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Naturist
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Hi our names are Lloyd & Chris ,we would like to know if any of the Grey Nomads are naturists. We live at Narrabri and would like to meet any Grey Nomads.We have a fifth wheeler called The Roo.We might be going back to WA next April to do some prospecting.
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Gday folks
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So let me introduce myself. I'm retired or thought I was since finishing my paid job I have been as busy as with grandkids and volunteer work. So its time for another change, I'm looking at selling my place, finding something smaller, buy a motor home and hit the highways and byways and check out all thos...
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New used Van -1st time dipping toes in the water with caravaning
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Hi folks - Dipping a toe in water with new used Van - 2004 Jayco Heritage poptop tare 1510 Kg, Tug is 2007 Hyundai diesel 2.2 max tow load 2000 Kg max ball weight 150 kg . Stressed out - pick it up soon ball weight test was 220 kg . Oh Boy ! They saw me coming . looks like I will have to make some changes to Tug and V...
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Hello to All
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JeffRae here, we are 60kms out of Perth. Been doing a lot of reading and making a few comments, is there a way to get notified of topics that you commented on ?
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Place to hide
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Hi , My wife and I are on the road full time and are currently in South Australia near Robe. We are looking for a place to stay over the school holidays. Somewhere quiet. We have looked at Randy Park Station in the Flinders Ranges and was wondering if anyone has stayed there. We realize it will be hot etc . An...
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Bunda Cliffs
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Brickbats to the S.A. Government Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources. During several crossing of the Nullarbor Plains, we have enjoyed the vast open spaces and breathtaking views of the Great Australian Bight and Bunda Cliffs. We had been looking forward to spending 2 night...
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Hello to all
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Hi, this is my first posting, I'd like to say hello, my wife and I have been on a few trips in our van and are enjoying the life style and people we have meet, it takes a bit of time to know exactly what you want in a van, in fact it's a learning curve for me , we plan on doing the lap before long so a lot of things to ta...
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Work the dirty word
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Is there much work around for people who want it while travelling Thanks Sandra
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