Hi fellow GNs, we have been absent from the forum for a while but now with our new rig and tug we have hit the roads and highways.
Thanks for all your suggestions and feedback over the preceeding months which helped us get on the road and we're loving it.
We are the new Newbees having taking to the livestyle with no prior experience, our first van and first 4 X 4.
The five weeks since we picked up our new wheels has been a great learning experience, but still enjoyable.
We have learned to set up the van with all the little bits and pieces that make life on the road easier. We have had a wide range of driving conditions from highway to country roads, from sunshine to thunder storms, from calm weather to blowing a gale. We have driven in towns during peak hour and in Sydney traffic.
Our greatest ordeal so far was to turn up a wrong road, which was narrow and the road base a mixture of gravel and dirt, it was hardly wide enough for the van to pass withour brushing the bush. A few kilometres down the road it was looking worse, so after stopping my wife took a short walk and came back with the news turn around here. Lucky there was a small clearing in the bush and I was able to jack knife the van up a small bank in 4 X 4 low range after removing the WDH, then jack knifed back in the opposite direction and we were off again, Sure glad we did that Tow-Ed course a few days earlier.
Anyway time for the reveal, we bought a Ford Ranger Wildtrak auto and a 22" Concept Ascot SX, combined length off both is about 15m.
Hope to see you on the road or in a park soon. We hope we have qualified and can step up from being a Newbie.
Looks like you have a great combination there. We hope you have a wonderful time traveling around oz...
Fran and Ed
D and D said
09:42 PM Mar 23, 2014
From one set of newbies to another, good luck, there's a lot to see and enjoy out there
Plendo said
09:45 PM Mar 23, 2014
Hi Steve and Kate,
that looks like a great rig, I am sure you will be comfortable on the road.
We are in a similar boat, although I have been hanging around the forum making a nuisance of mysef for about a year, we actually expect to get our hands on our van in the next couple of weeks, so then it will be time to do the tow ed course, and start doing short trips.
I hope you have a great time on your travels, and you never know when we might come across each other on the road.
grahos said
09:49 PM Mar 23, 2014
Love your rig,great choices I would dare to say.
ballast2 said
11:27 PM Mar 23, 2014
Nice set up. Hope you enjoy your travels
peterblack said
05:28 AM Mar 24, 2014
hi very nice indeed happy travels
Nelly said
11:15 AM Mar 24, 2014
Set up looks good - hope you see a lot and enjoy it.
chopit said
05:21 PM Mar 24, 2014
Classy set-up. Very sweet.
neilnruth said
04:22 PM Apr 8, 2014
Well your sign in status is already a 'veteran member'! Enjoy and well done at making the right decision to turn around on that road.
Hi fellow GNs, we have been absent from the forum for a while but now with our new rig and tug we have hit the roads and highways.
Thanks for all your suggestions and feedback over the preceeding months which helped us get on the road and we're loving it.
We are the new Newbees having taking to the livestyle with no prior experience, our first van and first 4 X 4.
The five weeks since we picked up our new wheels has been a great learning experience, but still enjoyable.
We have learned to set up the van with all the little bits and pieces that make life on the road easier. We have had a wide range of driving conditions from highway to country roads, from sunshine to thunder storms, from calm weather to blowing a gale. We have driven in towns during peak hour and in Sydney traffic.
Our greatest ordeal so far was to turn up a wrong road, which was narrow and the road base a mixture of gravel and dirt, it was hardly wide enough for the van to pass withour brushing the bush. A few kilometres down the road it was looking worse, so after stopping my wife took a short walk and came back with the news turn around here. Lucky there was a small clearing in the bush and I was able to jack knife the van up a small bank in 4 X 4 low range after removing the WDH, then jack knifed back in the opposite direction and we were off again, Sure glad we did that Tow-Ed course a few days earlier.
Anyway time for the reveal, we bought a Ford Ranger Wildtrak auto and a 22" Concept Ascot SX, combined length off both is about 15m.
Hope to see you on the road or in a park soon. We hope we have qualified and can step up from being a Newbie.
Steve and Kate
Hi Steve and Kate,
Looks like you have a great combination there. We hope you have a wonderful time traveling around oz...
Fran and Ed
Hi Steve and Kate,
that looks like a great rig, I am sure you will be comfortable on the road.
We are in a similar boat, although I have been hanging around the forum making a nuisance of mysef for about a year, we actually expect to get our hands on our van in the next couple of weeks, so then it will be time to do the tow ed course, and start doing short trips.
I hope you have a great time on your travels, and you never know when we might come across each other on the road.