Unfortunately, I have not been successful with ( SWMBO) and in this case she will be, as I wanted to take the rig to Victoria to spend a month over the feative season with two of our sons. Then tour scross to South Australia.
Instead we are flying Qantas on 20th Dec.
The sons for what ever reason want of reside in Victoria.
Fancy giving up the beginning of God's Country ( Brisbane) for Victoria. Now I note that Melbourne is growing at a huge rate so some one likes it.
Anyway Christmas with two parts of the family and especially the 5 grand Kids will make it all worth while.
Anyway what areyour plans. Perhaps your viewsm and places you intend to visit will give us some idea for our next travels.
Jay&Dee
The Belmont Bear said
11:55 AM Nov 4, 2018
We are pretty fortunate that our immediate family live in this area so the last thing that we would want to do is be on the road during the xmas period. Not just the traffic or the crowds but the fact that you have to pay 3 times as much for everything especially anywhere near the coast. For those GNs who will be on the road at that time stay safe and enjoy your festive season we plan on staying put right here in Lake Macquarie until about February.
Cheers
BB
the rocket said
12:16 PM Nov 4, 2018
Staying xmas eve with Daughter and her family Expect i will be up at the rack of dawn. Lunch at a sons home then next day off to the woodford folk festival To be with another son and hopefully another daughter n her family will come to visit on their way to frazer island. Cannot wait for this time of year.
Mike Harding said
12:29 PM Nov 4, 2018
Probably camped alone in remote bushland in East Gippsland by a beautiful alpine lake at an elevation of 1200m. That is where I spent last year and didn't see another soul for a week.
However, due to the elevation, on Xmas Eve the cloud descended at 4pm and I went to bed in the roof-top tent at 8pm because I was getting soaked. When you're in the clouds tarp shelters don't work :)
Warren-Pat_01 said
06:03 PM Nov 4, 2018
Doing something that I would prefer not to! Driving to Toowoomba, Canberra & Warrnambool, looking after family.
From Christmas on is "cyclone season" & it's too hot often to travel with temps into the 40s. At least the van will be having a rest at home.
Radar said
06:14 PM Nov 4, 2018
For the Festive Season we will fly out to Innsbuck Austria on the 21st November return on the 23 rd January 2019. It will be a white Christmas with son and family.
This will be second white Christmas in 6 years for us but this time we will get toshare it with our 18 month granddaughter.
Save travels to all those that choose to move about.
Merry Christmas and a happy new year.
Stretch60 said
10:40 PM Nov 4, 2018
Sorry Jaydee but gods country starts at the Indian Ocean We are hitting the Nullabor after Christmas day heading to Wondonga for NYE. After a short stay there up to Merimbula to visit a cousin and a few days after that heading SEQ to visit friends. Will be clocking up plenty of K's
RosieW said
10:44 PM Nov 4, 2018
At this point in time, we will be melting (already 40+) and working (stock needs feeding regardless of the day)...
Tony Bev said
10:48 PM Nov 4, 2018
All things being equal
We shall be having Christmas with family in Bunbury WA
Leave boxing day
Drive to Adelaide area, to have New Year with daughter
JayDee said
06:11 AM Nov 5, 2018
Stretch60 wrote:
Sorry Jaydee but gods country starts at the Indian Ocean We are hitting the Nullabor after Christmas day heading to Wondonga for NYE. After a short stay there up to Merimbula to visit a cousin and a few days after that heading SEQ to visit friends. Will be clocking up plenty of K's
Stretch 60,
Glad to see that you are going to visit our God's Country, albeit to the S.E. region.
Jay&Dee
2-Smiths said
09:40 AM Nov 5, 2018
Hopefully, we will be picking up our motor home. Then, after the New Year, we will be attempting to transfer it's registration to our name prior to returning home...
PeterD said
01:22 PM Nov 5, 2018
We will be parking up the van in the village trailer compound and keeping away from the maddening crowds.
The Belmont Bear said
02:16 PM Nov 5, 2018
Stretch60 wrote:
Sorry Jaydee but gods country starts at the Indian Ocean We are hitting the Nullabor after Christmas day heading to Wondonga for NYE. After a short stay there up to Merimbula to visit a cousin and a few days after that heading SEQ to visit friends. Will be clocking up plenty of K's
Stretch60 what part of the Indian Ocean is actually the start of Gods country last Xmas I was on the opposite shore and the locals over there told me that Allah's country starts on their side of the pond. This Xmas I will just have to put up with the rolling breakers of the South Pacific Ocean at least I will get to celebrate the festive season....and I won't need a licence to buy alcohol.
BB
Stretch60 said
09:59 PM Nov 5, 2018
Anywhere on the West Coast :)
Stretch60 said
10:07 PM Nov 5, 2018
Tony Bev wrote:
All things being equal
We shall be having Christmas with family in Bunbury WA
Leave boxing day
Drive to Adelaide area, to have New Year with daughter
Tony Bev, may see you on the Eyre somewhere as we hope to leave Perth on boxing day.
Stretch
drtooheys said
11:24 AM Nov 6, 2018
Lousy Christmas for me, start radiation on the 21/11 and don't finish to the 30/1, so a lot of traveling, as the cancer institute is 100k's away. Hopefully next years will be better.
Aus-Kiwi said
12:07 PM Nov 6, 2018
Sheesh sorry to hear .
Tony Bev said
12:14 PM Nov 7, 2018
Ditto to what Aus-Kiwi has already said, drtooheys
Tony Bev said
12:29 PM Nov 7, 2018
Stretch60 wrote:
Tony Bev wrote:
All things being equal
We shall be having Christmas with family in Bunbury WA
Leave boxing day
Drive to Adelaide area, to have New Year with daughter
Tony Bev, may see you on the Eyre somewhere as we hope to leave Perth on boxing day.
Stretch
Stretch
Not sure at the moment if we shall be going via Coolgardie, or Esperance
I usually have a shower/fill water/fuel up/truckies breakfast (now called Norseman breakfast), in Norseman
I also usually stop at every servo on the Nullarbor, to spend some money with them for either, fuel/cuppa/takeaway meal
I have a Grey Nomad sticker on the rear window, and (many thanks to Iana), I now have a second Grey Nomad sticker, on my bull bar
I shall be looking out for a, err, tall man, in a duel axle caravan
Keep your eye open for a little chap, with burnt hands, who sounds like a pommy gentleman, travelling in a Fiat Jayco Conquest motorhome, probably picking up rubbish in a free camp
Whenarewethere said
01:14 AM Nov 8, 2018
JayDee wrote:
Unfortunately, I have not been successful with ( SWMBO) and in this case she will be, as I wanted to take the rig to Victoria to spend a month over the feative season with two of our sons. Then tour scross to South Australia.
Jay&Dee
We drove down to Lorne in November &then all the way to Eliston on the Eyre Peninsular, ducked inland a few times. A couple of handfuls of miserably hot humid days on the coast. A very cold time in Deep Creek NP (spent a few hours collecting all the rubbish in the park to keep warm!) On the way back there was a "cold snap" so we drove up to the Flinders Ranges as far as Chambers Gorge. We got out of there before the next heatwave but had Christmas & New Year to ourselves in North Flinders Ranges, bliss!
Jimmy Kwaka said
07:57 AM Nov 8, 2018
Big trip ahead for us.
From Hervey bay, a few days travel down the Sydney where we jump aboard the Ovation of the Seas for a 14 day cruise around New Zealand. Then pick up the van and stay for a while in Lane Cove National park. Christmas with the kids and a grandie. New Years Eve in Moss Vale.
Then a slow meander around southern NSW, into Victoria, then the ferry to Tasmania.
We have just reclaimed our van after it was in the dealers getting a long list of manufacturing faults fixed.
From day one it has towed beautifully, the brakes work, and the fridge has kept the beer, wine and bourbon and cokes cold. For me the driver that is batting three for three. It was just a lot of poor factory workmanship inside the van that was the issue. A shout out to Warburtons Bundaberg who, after a couple of false starts, have brought our new van up to a standard that should have come from the factory. All good.
From Tassie, well, we really have not planned that part yet. She who rules the cosmos will inform me in due course. She just tells me where to point the whole shebang and I dutifully point it.
Leaving in two weeks, back around the middle of March. Or when the money runs out. Wishing everyone in here a safe and happy festive season.
Jimmy Kwaka said
08:01 AM Nov 8, 2018
This particular post is an official mistake. Read it, laugh at my uselessness if you must, then move along. Nothing to see here.
-- Edited by Jimmy Kwaka on Thursday 8th of November 2018 08:02:13 AM
-- Edited by Jimmy Kwaka on Thursday 8th of November 2018 08:04:11 AM
-- Edited by Jimmy Kwaka on Thursday 8th of November 2018 08:06:29 AM
Jimmy Kwaka said
08:03 AM Nov 8, 2018
Jimmy Kwaka wrote:
Hope all goes well for you Dr Tooheys. Cheers.
-- Edited by Jimmy Kwaka on Thursday 8th of November 2018 08:02:13 AM
Wizardofoz said
08:05 AM Nov 8, 2018
Unfortunately, I will be home in South West Sydney servicing and preparing my caravan for sale as I wont be using it again because of my wifes health, luckily, my family all live close by, so Christmas will be a nice family affair. Hopefully sometime in January or February I can spend some time at my holiday home in Kiama.
I have acommodation in Port Douglas and will be there from June until whenever I decide to return south again.
Lakatoi said
04:24 PM Nov 9, 2018
At this stage the wife and I will be spending Christmas and the New Year at home. Our youngest son has just arrived home from Uni in Victoria and our youngest daughter and her partner and the 4 grand kids will be with us for Christmas. Our eldest son is off to Brisbane to stay with our eldest daughter over the Christmas/New Year period.
Early in January we might pop across the border and spend a few days in Port Fairy.
Still haven't got on the road yet but planning to retire in the next 12-24 months and hit the road.
Unfortunately, I have not been successful with ( SWMBO) and in this case she will be, as I wanted to take the rig to Victoria to spend a month over the feative season with two of our sons. Then tour scross to South Australia.
Instead we are flying Qantas on 20th Dec.
The sons for what ever reason want of reside in Victoria.
Fancy giving up the beginning of God's Country ( Brisbane) for Victoria. Now I note that Melbourne is growing at a huge rate so some one likes it.
Anyway Christmas with two parts of the family and especially the 5 grand Kids will make it all worth while.
Anyway what areyour plans. Perhaps your viewsm and places you intend to visit will give us some idea for our next travels.
Jay&Dee
Cheers
BB
Staying xmas eve with Daughter and her family Expect i will be up at the rack of dawn. Lunch at a sons home then next day off to the woodford folk festival To be with another son and hopefully another daughter n her family will come to visit on their way to frazer island. Cannot wait for this time of year.
Probably camped alone in remote bushland in East Gippsland by a beautiful alpine lake at an elevation of 1200m. That is where I spent last year and didn't see another soul for a week.
However, due to the elevation, on Xmas Eve the cloud descended at 4pm and I went to bed in the roof-top tent at 8pm because I was getting soaked. When you're in the clouds tarp shelters don't work :)
From Christmas on is "cyclone season" & it's too hot often to travel with temps into the 40s. At least the van will be having a rest at home.
For the Festive Season we will fly out to Innsbuck Austria on the 21st November return on the 23 rd January 2019. It will be a white Christmas with son and family.
This will be second white Christmas in 6 years for us but this time we will get toshare it with our 18 month granddaughter.
Save travels to all those that choose to move about.
Merry Christmas and a happy new year.
Sorry Jaydee but gods country starts at the Indian Ocean
We are hitting the Nullabor after Christmas day heading to Wondonga for NYE. After a short stay there up to Merimbula to visit a cousin and a few days after that heading SEQ to visit friends. Will be clocking up plenty of K's
We shall be having Christmas with family in Bunbury WA
Leave boxing day
Drive to Adelaide area, to have New Year with daughter
Stretch 60,
Glad to see that you are going to visit our God's Country, albeit to the S.E. region.
Jay&Dee
Stretch60 what part of the Indian Ocean is actually the start of Gods country last Xmas I was on the opposite shore and the locals over there told me that Allah's country starts on their side of the pond. This Xmas I will just have to put up with the rolling breakers of the South Pacific Ocean at least I will get to celebrate the festive season....and I won't need a licence to buy alcohol.
BB
Tony Bev, may see you on the Eyre somewhere as we hope to leave Perth on boxing day.
Stretch
Lousy Christmas for me, start radiation on the 21/11 and don't finish to the 30/1, so a lot of traveling, as the cancer institute is 100k's away. Hopefully next years will be better.
Stretch
Not sure at the moment if we shall be going via Coolgardie, or Esperance
I usually have a shower/fill water/fuel up/truckies breakfast (now called Norseman breakfast), in Norseman
I also usually stop at every servo on the Nullarbor, to spend some money with them for either, fuel/cuppa/takeaway meal
I have a Grey Nomad sticker on the rear window, and (many thanks to Iana), I now have a second Grey Nomad sticker, on my bull bar
I shall be looking out for a, err, tall man, in a duel axle caravan
Keep your eye open for a little chap, with burnt hands, who sounds like a pommy gentleman, travelling in a Fiat Jayco Conquest motorhome, probably picking up rubbish in a free camp
We drove down to Lorne in November &then all the way to Eliston on the Eyre Peninsular, ducked inland a few times. A couple of handfuls of miserably hot humid days on the coast. A very cold time in Deep Creek NP (spent a few hours collecting all the rubbish in the park to keep warm!) On the way back there was a "cold snap" so we drove up to the Flinders Ranges as far as Chambers Gorge. We got out of there before the next heatwave but had Christmas & New Year to ourselves in North Flinders Ranges, bliss!
Big trip ahead for us.
From Hervey bay, a few days travel down the Sydney where we jump aboard the Ovation of the Seas for a 14 day cruise around New Zealand. Then pick up the van and stay for a while in Lane Cove National park. Christmas with the kids and a grandie. New Years Eve in Moss Vale.
Then a slow meander around southern NSW, into Victoria, then the ferry to Tasmania.
We have just reclaimed our van after it was in the dealers getting a long list of manufacturing faults fixed.
From day one it has towed beautifully, the brakes work, and the fridge has kept the beer, wine and bourbon and cokes cold. For me the driver that is batting three for three. It was just a lot of poor factory workmanship inside the van that was the issue. A shout out to Warburtons Bundaberg who, after a couple of false starts, have brought our new van up to a standard that should have come from the factory. All good.
From Tassie, well, we really have not planned that part yet. She who rules the cosmos will inform me in due course. She just tells me where to point the whole shebang and I dutifully point it.
Leaving in two weeks, back around the middle of March. Or when the money runs out. Wishing everyone in here a safe and happy festive season.
This particular post is an official mistake. Read it, laugh at my uselessness if you must, then move along. Nothing to see here.
-- Edited by Jimmy Kwaka on Thursday 8th of November 2018 08:02:13 AM
-- Edited by Jimmy Kwaka on Thursday 8th of November 2018 08:04:11 AM
-- Edited by Jimmy Kwaka on Thursday 8th of November 2018 08:06:29 AM
Unfortunately, I will be home in South West Sydney servicing and preparing my caravan for sale as I wont be using it again because of my wifes health, luckily, my family all live close by, so Christmas will be a nice family affair. Hopefully sometime in January or February I can spend some time at my holiday home in Kiama.
I have acommodation in Port Douglas and will be there from June until whenever I decide to return south again.
At this stage the wife and I will be spending Christmas and the New Year at home. Our youngest son has just arrived home from Uni in Victoria and our youngest daughter and her partner and the 4 grand kids will be with us for Christmas. Our eldest son is off to Brisbane to stay with our eldest daughter over the Christmas/New Year period.
Early in January we might pop across the border and spend a few days in Port Fairy.
Still haven't got on the road yet but planning to retire in the next 12-24 months and hit the road.
Keep safe everyone.
Bill