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The Chinese are pretty smart and are now designing buses which straddle the road allowing cars to pass under. This video shows how easy it can be. https://www.youtube.com/embed/t1gTzc7-IbQ Grey nomads know the real solution - totally avoid the city. Good Luck.

Hi All Be heading to Western Australia next month and would apreciate any thoughts on crossing the Nullarbor and were to stay. Plan to leave from Ceduna first thing in the morning and usually do around 500 Km a day, any advice on were to aim for day one, two and so on would be a great help along with were to fu...

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Firefighters have extinguished a bus fire at a train station in Perth's northern suburbs. The blaze engulfed the rear of a Transperth bus which was parked at the Whitfords train station in Kingsley. The WA Public Transport Authority (PTA) said nobody was on the bus at the time. It is the second Transp...

I am looking to replace my van, with one having an en-suite. My dilemna is this; I have lately seen some parks that will only accept fully self contained units, which I believe having "hold-over" tanks for ALL waste water, captured within the van, and disposed of later at presunably a "...

This is my new neighbour... Golf may be out for a few days. She's single... She lives right across the road. I can see her place from my deck. I watched as she got home from work thisevening. I was surprised when she walked across thestreet and up my driveway andknocked on my door. I rushed t...

Had a brake safe monitor fitted the other day & I am glad to say that it WORKS a TREAT. When we connected the car & van up the alarm sounded plus a red light. Thought the battery was no good brought another still red light & alarm. Checked the brake safe unit & found a blown fuse so now all goo...

thankyou for all the replies to my enquiry. much appreciated. think I met happy wanderer at a park in the south burnett some time ago. had a quick chat. do I imagine a cute little dog?

Hello fellow vanners, This morning I unfurled my awning and found a small section of the awning had torn away from the barrel .The area is near where the roll up/down tag is and aprox 25mm long ,Have any of you had this happen ,if so what did you do, im thinking some sort of patch to stick on both sides .any i...

Not exactly thongs, nor pushbikes either.

The Sun's rays pierce the Redwood forest in the Otways, Victoria.

SWMBO thinks, If she did this, I might be worth something after all !! k.j.

G/Day We are planning to fit a second battery to the cruiser,and are after any advice concerning the type of isolator which is ok to use ,we're only running a laptop ,chargers and lighting off the battery and a winch once in a blue moon.

One for the experts ( I'm not ) Wich number Sikaflex I have to use for this aplication (see photo ) Thanks John

Annoyed by poor radio reception in my Colorado 2014. Travelling from Melbourne to Townsville luck to pick up 1 or 2 stations in Northern NSW and Southern Ql;d. Would a bigger aerial on bullbar make a difference. Any ideas appreciated. Terry

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Purchased a solar panel with controller. Controller rated voltage is 12VDC / 24VDC but operating voltage is 8V. Now this is not enough to actually charge my van battery as it seems to be protected by a 12V controller as all I can hear is click-click-click........ from the controller and my 12V LED ligh...

Well we are heading to the Gulf for about a 6 week round trip from Mackay. We have pencilled in Lawn Hill NP of course but wondering who can tell us some good free camps etc and the must do's (and dont's). Kim

Simple says I:- (Please refer to the front page of this web site) It is because of all the red tape and the charges we have to follow and jump through just to see one of Mother's Natures wonders. And yes!!!! it was there long before the so call indigenous mob arrived and staked a claim. My view is that since o...

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