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Hi from Trecky
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What a fantastic site with a wealth of information and fun too. We get our Coromal Element van on Saturday. At the moment our heads are spinning as newcomers to caravanning, however we are so excited. We will be taking our travelling companion with us at times, a beautiful Border Collie named Shelby. L...
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Where to go in January
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Hello All Im currently in southern WA 'doing the circuit' and a long way from home. Has anyone got any good ideas about where to go during January where this grumpy old granny can escape the school holidays? Lovely as all the young families are they're a bit overwhelming en masse! Any advice grateful...
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Hello to all members and a short story of my DIY Caravan.
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Hello all.Here is my short caravan story and some photos.My caravan project started looking at caravans for our retirement.We went caravan shopping and finally decided on a van that would suit our needs - $125000.00. Need to work for a few more years.Driving to Perth one morning up the Kwinana Fre...
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Advise please -- tugs-
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Hi folks, I have a Jayco Westport Van on hold -- tare 1600kg -atm 2020 -- looking myself blind in deciding as to what to aquire for a Tug -- Aus is a lot "Wilder"than NZ, looking at Toyota, Cruiser, Prado, Terracan Ford ranger/ BT50 -- prefer Diesel -- The Terracan i am thinking about has the re...
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Hi from David
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I am planning to sell in the first half of next year, set up a van and tug to see some more of this beautiful country we have. I will be traveling solo and hope to meet other nomads along the way.
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Hello from Dirk and Johanna
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Hello to all you Grey Nomads. We are about to set off from Tassie on a year's trip around the big island. We hope to see a lot and, especially, to get to Darwin this time, as we did not make it on our previous trip in 2012. We will be in the same van, a 2003 Galaxy Mk II pop-top, but we will keep an eye out for an upg...
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Newbie
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Hi my name is Peta , im ready to have an adventure this January, Just bought a van, have 6 weeks holidays and im wondering if there was any peeps planning to safari about. If so let me know as I would love to tag along. Cheers :) -- Edited by gallagher4 on Tuesday 15th of December 2015 07:12:44 PM
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Adelaide says HI
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Hi all from Adelaide ... Hope this is right (New Topic) Just joined up to check out what the next phase of life will bring now I have chucked in me plummers mate (Plunger) Had a van yonks ago and did 1/2 a lap with SWMBO and two kids... Now thinking along the lines of a Motorhome built for two ,walk through j...
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Hi from Geoff
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Hi Everyone, I'm an avid reader of the Grey Nomads Times - great magazine. Keep up the good work. Just about to collect our new Crusader Muskuteer Athos van. (Trying to sell our 2002 Boroma.)
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Hello I'm Darrell
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Hello everyone. My adventure in our playground is due to launch around March 2016. I'm looking forward to getting out there and meeting up as I travel around I drove 12 years interstate and last 10 years on Sydney trains.
( you can take this job and shove it) tune running around in my head
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Hello (and an enquiry) from us, Marijke and Tony.
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We're glad to officially join the Grey Nomads site after a couple of wonderful years travelling around in our Newlands van. Four and a half months last year and seven months this year. We've made many friends and have been delighted to visit so many terrific places as we have travelled around this huge...
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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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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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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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Hi and some advice please
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Hi. I am new to this semi retired part of life and before my partner and I venture out I am seeking some advice from people who have gone through painful and stressful experience of traveling, and trying to decide what type of accommodation they should purchase.. Currently we have a 4WD and when we do out...
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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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introducton and light rigid licence
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Hi All I'm new to the forum, I really enjoy reading all the comments. I have a question that I'm hoping someone will be able to provide some answers to. We are from the Hunter Valley. We bought a motorhome which requires an LR licence. I am able to drive the vehicle in NSW provided my husband (who has a tr...
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Gregory Development Road
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Hello fellow nomads I have just joined up. Mrs Mouse and I will be heading off from Tas during 2016 to go up and down and around the big island. But in the meantime I am heading off for a practise run bringing a camper back from the Isa to tassie for a friend. I am considering going across to Townsville (I hav...
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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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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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