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Hi all! We have just signed into this forum for the first time. Our home is up for sale and we are about to purchase a 25Ft caravan and Ford Ranger 4x4 to pull it. (Both used vehicles) I'm not sure how to introduce ourselves but we are a recently retired married couple and have adopted our avatar name as Ge...

Hi, The Easter break will be our maiden voyage. We've chosen Eden. We are very excited and keen to learn the ropes. Our van is a Jurgens and the jury is still out as to whether it will fall apart on the way. Watch this space LOL! We are towing with a Toyota Landcruiser 76 Series. Anyways, looking forwar...

New to the forum and after retirement last year .My wife Lois and I purchased a Jayco StarCraft poptop 17 footer to tow with our TX Ford Territory..Also have lots of questions about the lifestyle, but will just ease into it... Hello to all you friendly RVers out there hope we can catch up in the future...

Hi All I just found out about this forum from a friend in Tasmania I have cleaned up after Cyclone Ita, no damage to anything, and thought it was time to say g'day I currently have a 2003 Gazal Infinity Caravan and i am towing it with a Mazda Bravo ute. Done a few trips since retiring in 2010 and a big one plann...

Hi all, having quit my job after over 9 years as senior electrical technician for one of the countrys' largest Onan dealers, my wife and I decided to take the plunge and do the "lap". We have bought a Paramount Delta and a Falcon wagon and are about to set off heading northwest to start with. H...

Hello all just joined. We are in the process of building a motor home on the back of an old C.F.S 4 wheel drive truck, I have a small plane which goes into a trailer, and we have plans to tow it around park at country airfields and check out the country side by air.

Hi All, We are in day two of an around Australia working holiday. Set off from Yarra Valley in Victoria. Currently at Mount Gambier at Showgrounds....thanks for the advice by the way. Heading to Eyre Peninsula before searching for work to get us around OZ. Driving Pajero and towing Jayco S...

Hello everybody, I have the luck to have a job that allows me to work wherever there's a decent 3G Internet connection, so I'm about to take advantage of it and start traveling full time, at least for a few months. I'm happy to be part of your lively community. I'm abundantly over 40, not really gray but no...

We are looking to purchase a CT2500 Camper Trolley to move our tandem 18' van. They are fairly pricey, happy to pay if they are as good as claimed. Interested in any feedback that users may be able to offer, particularly if it works well on grass.

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There is an employment agency in Germany. One of their advertising gimmicks is putting these 3D posters on various machines throughout Germany. K.J.

Hi we have rented our house out for 12 months and are getting ready to head north. Not sure where we will end up. we are going to house sit in Monto for five weeks starting mid June. Maybe we will come across other Grey Nomads in our travels. rastas

From a few weeks ago - Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends.The answer was boxing but two of the dozen or so I showed the quiz to also came up with 'Surfing' (as in surfboards) - think they maybe right.

A class was given a homework assignment to find out something exciting and relate it to the class the next day. When the time came to present what they'd found, the first little boy the teacher called on walked up to the front of the class. He picked up a piece of chalk, made a small white dot on the black...

I can't believe they wrote a song about us. Enjoy! -- Edited by sherbert on Tuesday 22nd of April 2014 03:55:46 PM

Hi and Welcome to all the latest GN members, it is a great forum. I notice that a lot of new members ask questions on this Introduction section which is fine except many GN's do not visit here, so your questions do not get the attention they deserve and it can restrict the numbers of answers you may receive...

we're going to Blue Mountains next weekend for 5 days and would love to hear your recommendations on where to stay. we'd aiming to do the usual walks and sight seeing. We're seeing friends in Katoomba one evening so an easy drive to there is preferable. Any suggestions? thank you

Clock Radio with sleep function run on 12v and 240v or invertor. I thought it would be good to be able to have a radio in the caravan with a sleep function button like the radio alarm clock we have at home. My female logic tells me that somehow it should be possible to use a 240v and run it through an inverto...

Our first ever motorhome! 1992 ISUZU/Winnebago We bought it last year. Very comfortable inside but slow as treacle on the hills. We are lucky if we travel at 95kph on the flats. But love camping in national parks and touring around. It is fully self contained with inverter and 340 watts of solar. Just s...

Conjoined twins walk into a pub in Sydney and park themselves on a bar stool. One of them says to the bartender, "Don't mind us, we're joined at the hip, I'm John, he's Jim. Two VB's thanks" The bartender, feeling slightly awkward, tries to make polite conversation while pouring the beers....