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The Caravanner's greatest gift
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Watching TV? Sat at the table. You know the problem. After a while your bum goes to sleep and you get back ache. Why not lay on the bed? If you're like me no matter how many pillows you put behind your back you can't get comfortable, and when you do get comfortable you fall asleep. I've found the answer! It's...
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Perth this weekend.
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Hi, Have just put a post on the solos forum to see if there are any GN's in or about Perth that might like to catch up over the weekend? Solo or couple is ok by me. I'm about to start to travel east so I would like to meet up somewhere. There seems to be plenty happening on the east coast so maybe we could start it...
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Colls
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Use of overdrive.
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Having had 2 mechanics give me totally opposing advice, I thought I'd put this topic out here to see if I can get a general concensus that will help me save my gearbox. When towing a caravan, do you have the "overdrive " function engaged or not ? One mechanic said you only use it on hilly tows : th...
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Threadbare Bunny
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Geocaching
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Has anyone in Grey Nomads ever participated in Geocaching? Geocaching is, and I quote directly from the website, "the free high-tech treasure hunt where you use your GPS receiver to find caches hidden by other players. It's a great way to be outdoors, enjoy the environment and revel in the thri...
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Romy5152
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Two sleeps to go
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Hello everyone, we have two sleeps to go before we set north. Its going to be a bit harder now as today our grand daughter gave birth at 3.50pm to our new great grand son, it was hard enough getting her out of Frankston Hospital Maternity back to the van so we could cryo vac some meat for the freezer so I think...
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Frog53
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Camp fire cooking
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We are about to hit the road full time and would like to take our camp oven and hot plate. Just wondering how many opportunities we will have to use this at free camp sites due to availability of firewood. ??
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robkim
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CAR AND CARAVAN REGO
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I am not sure what's going on this way but for the second year in a row my rego has come to my house 3 days before it is due! Main Roads say they send them 6 weeks before they are due, wonder if this is a way for them to get late fee's? Anybody else having this trouble?
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Our new life
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I am excited!! As I look out the front window of our home I am reminded that it is not a dream but our 24ft Crusader caravan I can see and touch!! Yeeaah!! My name is Rob and I am married to Kim. We live in Gympie QLD. see you on the road Rob Kim
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storing potatoes
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Hi everyone, I thought I would jump on and just ask what people do about storing there potatoes. We don't have a separate storage area in the bench top like in some of the vans we have owned, thanks for all the help we have received up to now, less than 24 hours before departure, looking foreward to meeting...
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Frog53
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Congratulations Cindy, We're 4000 Members and getting bigger
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The Grey Nomads website has now reached the 4000 member mark which is fantastic and a testiment to our webmistress Cindy's original concept and hard work in designing this website & keeping it going. I hope all these new members drop in & say hello & possibly even contribute to one of the m...
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Hylda&Jon
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Who Are We?
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Hi apologies for posting a question before we introduced ourselves.We are Dave and Carol, I am a Scott, who first came to Australia as a ten pound pom almost forty years ago, since then I have moved around Sydney, Melbourne, Ballarat, Wodonga, Bathurst, Albury, Japan, Thailand, Mexico, New Zealand...
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Plendo
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What do we need to Free Camp
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Hi this is my first ever forum post, so please bear with me if I do things a little wrong. We are at the planning stage, starting from scratch to work out what we will need to live on the road for a couple of years, and one of the topics I do not understand all of the ramifications off is free camping. I am fine w...
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Plendo
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One Huge Thank you ,to all the gn,s who have helped me out during this rather bad time i have been going through ,i will
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get to you all in good time ,just give me a bit of time to get onto my own 2 feetses ,am realy looking forward too green lake see ya later and a huge thanks rod
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ROWDYRABBIT1
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Search button
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When I type 1770 into the search button I get 26 matches availble. But only 5 show up with no way of accessing the remainder. No matter which way I do it I still only get the same 5. Has anyone got any idea how to get the lot when going through the seach button.
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We have moved on
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We have moved to Rocky Creek for three days while we have a look around. Quite a few vans and motorhomes here but no where near as many as Mareeba. Plenty of room for a lot more although it will be shut down over the weekend because is victory day celebrations. Thanks to the crew at Mareeba for a great time. S...
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briche
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Road conditions
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Hi all, Just some general info on some road conditions, we have just travelled from Adels Grove (Lawn Hill) to Bouila & then to Winton(we are here for then night) roads are in very good conditions,very dry & dusty,weather is just great (28c) lots of travelers on the road, but we have always fou...
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Granny's Off Again
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I'm heading off tomorrow for another job. Starting at Adelaide, heading to Broken Hill via Gladstone, then on to Lyndhurst. I won't know the exact route until I see the permit which allows us to take oversize loads on specified roads around the country. The hardest part about this job is getting paid...
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Cruising Granny
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Jondaryan Woolshed Qld
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Anyone going to the Jackie Howe Festival of the Golden Shears? http://www.jondaryanwoolshed.com.au/ I can highly recommend it. We went a few years ago and it looks like I'll be going along this year. It'll be a good shake down trip for Lulu after her recent repairs. The nights will be cold but the days...
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Generator fuel.
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Have just taken delivery of a EU20i Honda generator. All good so far. Will get around to playing with it soon. My query is, how do, those of you that have generators, carry the fuel and where? All assistance appreciated. Terro. Retired, what was it, oh yes, Ambo!
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towing vehicles
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hi all, wondering what the best and most economical tow vehicle is? we tow a full van dual axle and a1675kg tare weight. with an 02 jackaroo auto 3.5l petrol motor. tows great,but the fuel is ba. we get 3-4k per litre towing and around 5-7 k per litre when not towing. i would love to hear from other nomads...
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