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ollwarra · ollwarra

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...

Mouse · Mouse

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...

JenBoat · JenBoat

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...

Big Gorilla · Big Gorilla

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...

Neil n Chris · Neil n Chris

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!!

Rasty · Rasty

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...

Dave+Addy · Dave+Addy

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...

lizgar · lizgar

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...

jolmur · jolmur

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...

kowalskil · kowalskil

Hello, I am Ludwik Kowalski (see Wikipedia)

llochris · llochris

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.

chrisnmark · chrisnmark

Hello everyone. We are Christine and Mark from the Central Coast NSW and planning retirement in the next six months. We have a 21ft Evernew van and have only had short trips so far. My biggest problem, as a mother, is feeling guilty about leaving my children and grandchildren behind when we eventua...

Jimbo48 · Jimbo48

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...

Paulo · Paulo

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...

JeffRae · JeffRae

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 ?

New Members and first time caravanners · Gary Andrew

Hi All. Gary and Jacky here. We are about to buy a caravan and plan to do a leisurely drive around the place for about 3 years. We are looking forward to seeing more of this beautiful country and meeting fellow travellers We have selected a van, a Retreat Whitehaven. We love the van, however I am a bit conce...

Dave A · Dave A

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...

jan pc · jan pc

I have just purchased a small van 12 ft.- am thinking of buying a remote control mover ,have a small laneway and cannot reverse into yard. I have looked at a few options, would like to know what other users have had or have. as the van only weighs about 780kg don't need anything too powerful. I am also confu...

WoolgoolgaRob · WoolgoolgaRob

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...

mrharv · mrharv

Hi to you all, We have been grey nomads for 3 years and we have noticed that there are permanent greasy thumb marks on our kitchen cupboards in front of the catch. We are in a Jayco Motor home and the material of the cupboards is paper covered board. Does anybody have any idea how to remove the greasy areas?...

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	introducton and light rigid licence (Preview) 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...	ollwarra	6	891	09:05 AM Dec 4, 2015 by Webmaster
	Gregory Development Road (Preview) 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...	Mouse	4	649	09:12 PM Dec 3, 2015 by Mouse
	Hi to fellow nomads (Preview) 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...	JenBoat	5	660	07:51 PM Dec 3, 2015 by aussietraveller
	A BIG WELCOME TO ALL NEW GREY NOMADS.. (Preview) 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...	Big Gorilla	4	617	04:20 PM Nov 29, 2015 by Big Gorilla
	Greetings! (Preview) 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!!	Neil n Chris	2	474	01:35 PM Nov 28, 2015 by Dougwe
	Kingdom Kensington 2012 (Preview) 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...	Rasty	2	858	01:24 PM Nov 28, 2015 by Dougwe
	Hello from two new nomads (Preview) 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...	Dave+Addy	2	453	02:33 PM Nov 27, 2015 by Dougwe
	Newbies (Preview) 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...	lizgar	2	554	02:30 PM Nov 27, 2015 by Dougwe
	Introducing me myself and I (Preview) 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...	jolmur	2	658	11:46 AM Nov 26, 2015 by Dougwe
	Introducing myself (Preview) Hello, I am Ludwik Kowalski (see Wikipedia)	kowalskil	1	578	11:26 AM Nov 25, 2015 by Vince
	Naturist (Preview) 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.	llochris	3	2045	04:43 PM Nov 24, 2015 by leestevo
	The big first step (Preview) Hello everyone. We are Christine and Mark from the Central Coast NSW and planning retirement in the next six months. We have a 21ft Evernew van and have only had short trips so far. My biggest problem, as a mother, is feeling guilty about leaving my children and grandchildren behind when we eventua...	chrisnmark	8	739	11:17 AM Nov 21, 2015 by chrisnmark
	Gday folks (Preview) 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...	Jimbo48	3	708	08:29 PM Nov 17, 2015 by aussietraveller
	New used Van -1st time dipping toes in the water with caravaning (Preview) 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...	Paulo	7	734	08:01 AM Nov 16, 2015 by Paulo
	Hello to All (Preview) 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 ?	JeffRae	4	613	09:49 PM Nov 15, 2015 by JeffRae
	New Members and first time caravanners (Preview) Hi All. Gary and Jacky here. We are about to buy a caravan and plan to do a leisurely drive around the place for about 3 years. We are looking forward to seeing more of this beautiful country and meeting fellow travellers We have selected a van, a Retreat Whitehaven. We love the van, however I am a bit conce...	Gary Andrew	7	825	09:18 AM Nov 14, 2015 by Gary Andrew
	Place to hide (Preview) 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...	Dave A	4	668	09:51 PM Nov 12, 2015 by KFT
	Hi all, another newbie.caravan movers-remote control. (Preview) I have just purchased a small van 12 ft.- am thinking of buying a remote control mover ,have a small laneway and cannot reverse into yard. I have looked at a few options, would like to know what other users have had or have. as the van only weighs about 780kg don't need anything too powerful. I am also confu...	jan pc	7	985	04:31 PM Nov 12, 2015 by jan pc
	Hello to all (Preview) 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...	WoolgoolgaRob	5	672	12:53 PM Nov 12, 2015 by Dougwe
	greasy spots on our kitchen cupboards (Preview) Hi to you all, We have been grey nomads for 3 years and we have noticed that there are permanent greasy thumb marks on our kitchen cupboards in front of the catch. We are in a Jayco Motor home and the material of the cupboards is paper covered board. Does anybody have any idea how to remove the greasy areas?...	mrharv	4	686	12:33 PM Nov 12, 2015 by mrharv
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