Typical TT commercial- promotion of the larger campers which people only keep for a short time if you can judge by the ones for sale on CMCA pages.
We saw two happy families at Honeymoon Pool near Collie WA quite a few years ago and they had Holden Gemini with trailer and Kombi van with trailer-not a camper and they were on their way round with kids and had started in Q'land.
They had really enjoyed their journey.
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JRH said
01:21 PM Oct 30, 2010
We are pensioners and our rig is a 1993 Falcon wagon towing a 1984 Jayco songbird, we have a ball going around the countryside.
Listen to TT and you cannot enjoy a caravan trip without spending $150,000 or more on a motorhome or 5th wheeler, I am sure it would put quite a few people off from considering the Nomad lifestyle.
On the other hand it leaves more room for those of us already living the lifestyle.
valnrob said
07:56 PM Oct 30, 2010
Well, it seems I didn't miss too much, watched the wrong show !!!!!! A C A. NSW wasn't on... Ah well we don't have a huge 5th wheeler or a motorhome, (saw this on other comments) we have a 1999 Holden Rodeo and a 1980 Viscount Van, which we get around in and are very happy with. It doesn't matter what you travelling in or towing, it's all in the lifestyle.
We love it !!! cheers Val and Rob
Pejay said
03:10 PM Oct 31, 2010
Hmm, seemed to us to be nothing more than a plug for Winnebargo Motorhomes!!
JRH said
03:31 PM Oct 31, 2010
Pejay wrote:
Hmm, seemed to us to be nothing more than a plug for Winnebargo Motorhomes!!
Dead right there Pejay, in my opinion it gave a totally erroneous view of the grey nomad lifestyle.
jimbo said
09:48 AM Nov 1, 2010
Has anybody bothered to reply to this day tonight......Voicing a comment......I asked to tell it as it is.......But I don't believe the programs are interested in truth.....
Ma said
01:16 PM Nov 1, 2010
Of course they aren't Jimmy, there's no money to be made in telling the truth
jimricho said
05:26 PM Nov 1, 2010
Pejay wrote:
Hmm, seemed to us to be nothing more than a plug for Winnebargo Motorhomes!!
Of course it was, as I implied in my earlier post that's what commercial television is all about. At least it didn't tear us apart with a typical media beat-up!
We know what we're all about so who cares, let's move on.
Rolly said
01:10 PM Nov 2, 2010
A problem with shows of this kind, and indeed many of the poorly constructed and shallow material that passes for 'content', is that many people will take it all on board and believe every word.
Much as they do with the propaganda that they call political comment in the "news" papers.
People are far too ingenuous and gullible, in the main.
But mentally lazy, mostly.
Listen to TT and you cannot enjoy a caravan trip without spending $150,000 or more on a motorhome or 5th wheeler, I am sure it would put quite a few people off from considering the Nomad lifestyle.
On the other hand it leaves more room for those of us already living the lifestyle.
We know what we're all about so who cares, let's move on.