Welcome to the GN's .. and yes, a sense of humour indeed helps one through life .. me especially !
Enjoy the site ! There's a lot of experience and general knowlege tucked away in its members and I'm sure you can only add to it ..
enjoy !
Jon
Paddy said
07:57 AM Mar 14, 2010
Hello Sheba.I hope that your day will be full of humour and goodwill.Tell us something about yourself.Do you travel or just waiting in the wings so as to speak.Regards Paddy.
Sheba said
07:24 PM Mar 14, 2010
Waiting in the wings at this stage Paddy. Thanks for the welcome everybody.
Sheba.
-- Edited by Sheba on Sunday 14th of March 2010 06:25:15 PM
Andrea said
12:13 AM Mar 15, 2010
May I add my voice, for the first time on this forum: hello, Sheba and all.
John and I are full-time 'Free-ranging' travellers: sold everything (in SA) in 2008 and had our new home -- a 5th-wheeler -- built in Brisbane, and are currently in Cranbrook, WA, waiting for the Ulysses Club to vacate Albany in the next few days.
Would love to talk to any members we meet with on the way; is anyone in this area at present?
Andrea & John ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Blessed be
Sheba said
12:23 AM Mar 15, 2010
Nice to see a "fellow traveller" on the Forum Andrea. Blessed Be, Sheba.
-- Edited by Sheba on Monday 15th of March 2010 12:10:26 AM
Ginger said
08:47 AM Mar 15, 2010
Hi Sheba and Andrea
I have not been in here long but I enjoy it. I do a bit of travelling mostly in my car as I have not got a van yet. I havent found anything I like. I just pack the car and go from place to place staying in CPs.
Yes it is probably an expensive way to travel but keeps the travel bug at bay. I allot myself x amount of money and when half way through it, I turn around and come home.
Yes a sense of humour is a must, laugh and the whole world laughs with you, cry and you cry alone. How true that is.
Smokeydk said
09:13 AM Mar 15, 2010
Hi Andrea, one of our members JRH was just there....
JRH said
11:37 AM Mar 15, 2010
Smokeydk wrote:
Hi Andrea, one of our members JRH was just there....
Yep a great place for a couple of weeks or longer. Got out before the Bike club arrived.
I don't know if it was a club member who had the accident but that m/cycle accident started the big bushfire recently.
Andrea a must visit is the Sandalwood factory (Mount Romance) North of Albany on the Albany Highway, take your credit card with you as I am sure you will find many opportunities to use it there.
Oh by the way welcome to the forum.
Andrea said
12:08 PM Mar 15, 2010
Ginger wrote:
Hi Sheba and Andrea
I have not been in here long but I enjoy it. I do a bit of travelling mostly in my car as I have not got a van yet. I havent found anything I like. I just pack the car and go from place to place staying in CPs.
Hi, Ginger - As you're probably aware, there are a lot of solos out (t)here. It was one of those who sowed the seed for our new lifestyle change - and grateful we are to her for that! She then had a very basic set-up in a small van and was trying out the lifestyle; by the time we met she'd decided to sell her house in NSW and buy a motorhome. A couple of years later she's still on the road, but now with a partner.
Hope to see you on the road sometime.
Andrea
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Blessed be
Andrea said
12:14 PM Mar 15, 2010
JRH wrote:Yep a great place for a couple of weeks or longer. Got out before the Bike club arrived.
I don't know if it was a club member who had the accident but that m/cycle accident started the big bushfire recently.
Andrea a must visit is the Sandalwood factory (Mount Romance) North of Albany on the Albany Highway, take your credit card with you as I am sure you will find many opportunities to use it there.
Oh by the way welcome to the forum.
Thanks, all, for the welcome! And we are really looking forward to visiting Albany, although I'm not sure we should go to the Sandalwood factory, JRH - it sounds like it might be expensive!
We don't know about the cyclist, either, except that he was not badly injured. Fortunately the fire is now under control and has not damaged any houses, although it was quite close to an Albany suburb.
Cheers - Andrea
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Blessed be
JRH said
05:17 PM Mar 15, 2010
Andrea, whatever you do don't miss the Sandalwood factory, there is a free tour of the facillty and you really don't have to spend lots of money there.
The Gong Room for meditation is great and at $17 on concession was well worth the it for the hour of total relaxation, and you get a silk scarf impregnated with calming Sandalwood oil to keep.
Whale World out on Frenchmans Bay road is another must see, though the tour costs $25. The tour includes a 3D movie in a cinema set up in one of the large Whale oil tanks.
Cruising Granny said
06:18 PM Mar 15, 2010
The Whale Factory is definitely worth a look.
I was impressed and amazed at how the atmosphere has been recreated, and the tour guide I heard really told the story well.
The industry must have been amazing in that part of the world.
Just don't get too confused by the street signage in town.
My Tom Tom was even confused.
Sheba.
Welcome to the GN's .. and yes, a sense of humour indeed helps one through life .. me especially !
Enjoy the site ! There's a lot of experience and general knowlege tucked away in its members and I'm sure you can only add to it ..
enjoy !
Jon
Sheba.
-- Edited by Sheba on Sunday 14th of March 2010 06:25:15 PM
John and I are full-time 'Free-ranging' travellers: sold everything (in SA) in 2008 and had our new home -- a 5th-wheeler -- built in Brisbane, and are currently in Cranbrook, WA, waiting for the Ulysses Club to vacate Albany in the next few days.
Would love to talk to any members we meet with on the way; is anyone in this area at present?
Andrea & John
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Blessed be
Blessed Be,
Sheba.
-- Edited by Sheba on Monday 15th of March 2010 12:10:26 AM
Hi Sheba and Andrea
I have not been in here long but I enjoy it. I do a bit of travelling mostly in my car as I have not got a van yet. I havent found anything I like. I just pack the car and go from place to place staying in CPs.
Yes it is probably an expensive way to travel but keeps the travel bug at bay. I allot myself x amount of money and when half way through it, I turn around and come home.
Yes a sense of humour is a must, laugh and the whole world laughs with you, cry and you cry alone. How true that is.
I don't know if it was a club member who had the accident but that m/cycle accident started the big bushfire recently.
Andrea a must visit is the Sandalwood factory (Mount Romance) North of Albany on the Albany Highway, take your credit card with you as I am sure you will find many opportunities to use it there.
Oh by the way welcome to the forum.
Hope to see you on the road sometime.
Andrea
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Blessed be
And we are really looking forward to visiting Albany, although I'm not sure we should go to the Sandalwood factory, JRH - it sounds like it might be expensive!
We don't know about the cyclist, either, except that he was not badly injured. Fortunately the fire is now under control and has not damaged any houses, although it was quite close to an Albany suburb.
Cheers -
Andrea
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Blessed be
The Gong Room for meditation is great and at $17 on concession was well worth the it for the hour of total relaxation, and you get a silk scarf impregnated with calming Sandalwood oil to keep.
Whale World out on Frenchmans Bay road is another must see, though the tour costs $25. The tour includes a 3D movie in a cinema set up in one of the large Whale oil tanks.