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We are in two minds about whether we need a generator for our travels - mainly at free camping sites or places with no power available. We are in Tasmania at present but only here for another month and house sitting for 2 weeks of that time. Then we will be travelling north to NT and then down through WA un...

Hi all, I have a 2007 AVan with a large skylight where the flyscreen section has torn. Does anyone know where I can get a replacement or alternatively know how to remove the old broken one and replace. It is not the concertina type mentioned in other posts I found I the techie forum. I have (hopefully) att...

Just noticed that the Colorado has standard 7 pin flat trailer socket but from memory the van has a 12 pin flat plug (7 in one row and 5 in the other) - Silly question but do I need a convertor or will the 7 pin top of the 12 pin fit in the 7 pin socket. Picking up the van towards the end of the month and only just re...

Our private health insurance is costing us a bomb and we're thinking about cancelling it. However, from what we can see online and info from the SA Ambulance Service there's no way to get national ambulance cover unless its part of a private health insurance package. A search on the forum archives ret...

Yesterday we had Darrell and Sandra (Old Boar) leave us for places north, will miss them after travelling together on and off for the last four or five months. Michael, (mickmil2) rocked in to say hello, and spend the night, good to see him again, reckon he will be back. Goode (Chris and Joy), arrived mi...

I hope you all have a great 2015 with a lot of travelling but most of all keep healthy and stay safe. ...

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hi all we have just had a quote to install 2 x 150watt panels with a 30amp regulator etc on our bus $1392.00. my question is does this sound reasonable or should we install a kit ourselves. thx debs and graeme

A doctor in Dublin, feeling overworked wanted to get off work and go fishing, so he approached his assistant. "Murphy, I am going fishing tomorrow and don't want to close the clinic. I want you to take care of the clinic and take care of all me patients"."Yes, sir!" answers Murph...

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Bushfire EMERGENCY WARNING for southern part of Toodyay in the Shire of ToodyayTuesday 30 December 2014 - 3:05 PMALERT LEVEL: A bushfire EMERGENCY WARNING remains for people in the southern part of Toodyay near Salt Valley Road, Challeon Lane, Panorama View, Hoddy Well Road and Sandplain Road...

Wow, I can see the Greens Mob spending sometime languishing in the cooling waters of Greens. Courtesy of Willy Weather for Corop. Thursday.......34C Friday.....41C Saturday....41C, possible Thunder Storm. Sunday....31C, " " " Monday...34C, ...

Was defrosting our Waeco fridge this morning and remembered the problem we had when we first started out. The fridge used to leak water from "somewhere" when travelling, onto the floor. I realised that it didn't defrost itself like the one at home, and if I keep defrosting it weekly there'...

We had to buy a new laptop (well, we thought we had to but maybe not after all!) and of course it came with Windows 8. Oh boy. Why do they make it so different to Windows 7? Has anyone else struggled with it like I am?

Just watched a movie about the real story or Santa Clause. I might show the grandkids before next Christmas. Rare Exports: a Christmas Tale

We have an 85 Coaster and the radio is a digital one but crap, We bought a 2nd Coaster for the engine but the one in that is crap also. So what I am looking for is good radio reception, Mp3 playback and input jack. Where do people with Coasters install the speakers. Ours has 2 speakers (In roof lining) one abo...

Greetings and salutations to all the excited and unexcited people, and may I say that we at Greens Lake had a stupendous Christmas and to prove this we have the photos ...... First.... setting up of the venue and some where totally exhausted after the mission. The excited started to arrive, even so...

Wishing everyone on the forum a very Merry Christmas and happy and safe travels in the New Year, Cheers Colleen and Denis