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What ever happened to a nice slab to put the van on and then having a nice grass area to put the annex up on instead of busted up concrete or pavers that you cant drive pegs in (or even concrete nails. So how does every body peg the annex down cheers blaze

Yesterday I spent the day with my middle son who was in Melbourne on his way to Tassie for a work week. For him there will not be a lot of work being done as he is off to drive around Tasmania with Renault, doing an Amazing Race type thing as reward for being top sales manager in Australia, so anyway now I have f...

IRISH TEXT MESSAGE: Paddy texts his wife: Mary, I'm just having one more pint with the lads. If I'm not home in 20 minutes, read this message again.

I was in the lounge this afternoon when disturbed by the scream of Fire Trucks racing past, Counting four trucks, one after the other, I thought I would wander out the back door to see if there was any sign of smoke. Got a bit of a shock, this fire was no more than two km from our place............ Lucki...

At Beardy Creek NSW 148 tonight 12thFeb, then thought I'd check out Uralla fossicking area Camps 5 NSW 160 tomorrow, any one been there lately. John

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Gday... 1864 - Australian poet and author, Banjo Paterson, is born. 1934 - Australian actor Barry Humphries, alias Dame Edna Everage, is born. 1846 - The colony of North Australia is proclaimed by Letters Patent. 1972 - Production of the humble Volkswagen Beetle sur...

I was explaining to my wife last night that when you die you get Reincarnated but mustcome back as a different creature. She said she would like to come back as a cow. I said: "You obviously haven't beenlistening." ----------------------------------------------------------------...

I'm seriously contemplating becoming a professional impersonator. How am I doing so far? May I say this? Salutations fellow Nutters and Fruit loops! Greeting Nomads !!And!!, may I be so bold as to give a big Howdyeeee to all you free thinking B Boomers out there! And may I say this??? No? Whaddaya mean...

We have 10 days to get away and haven't done the Cobram /Yarrawonga area before . Interested in free camps and maybe a night or two in a park May get as far as Albury Wodonga for a quick look but prefer to stay around the river area any good suggestions, we are planning to go mid to end of April. Also tips on wh...

We have been down here for about a week now traveling the Pacific highway and the most noticable thing is the lack of Toilets.. Doesn't Victorians need to use toilets ..???? Everytime we do find a place to stop and if we walk a few meters off the road there are all these patches of white paper with deposits...

Great free camp at St Mary's Tasmania Hi all just a quick update of our travels. We are currently free camping at the Recreation Ground at St Mary's. This is a great spot nice open area for the biggest of rigs included is a nice new toilet and shower block. Showers, are a $2 for three minutes there is al...

Hi All! My name is Steve and at 33 I am a grey nomad in training. I packed in my job and for the past two years have been living on the road playing music around the various grey nomad hot spots and having a whale of a time. I'm planning to hit the road again soon after my next CD is recorded - see you out there! S...

I have been surfing the internet re Farm Stays. I have come across a number which reads very well. Just wanting some feedback from forumites who have visited any Farm Stays. Preference is for Queensland and NSW. Appears to be an excellent one a Bonus Downs south of Mitchell. Thanks. Jay&Dee

Well I found a bus.. - Watched the auction Like a hawk and in the last dying min, submitted my Bid.. Damn it I won the Auction. Now just to do the final inspection[got to fly up],arrange for transfer and pay for it.. So at this stage I'm a provisional owner of said Coaster bus.. - gone out the door are the Aut...

Hello! I am Barrie and my beloved partner is Carol. We are on the threshold of retirement and will hit the road in Late July with our new Lotus Trooper Van. Currently are doing some short shake down runs, but have got the taste for the "big one"!

Looking forward to being active in this group. While camping at Ayson's, we met Marj, aka Happy Wanderer. Thanks heaps HW for introducing us to The Grey Nomads Russell and I have been caravanning since October 2010 and enjoyed long trips as well as shorter ones. We travel with our beautiful little S...

Hello I'm Helen and my husband is John, We are hoping to start our travelling way of life by the end of the year. At the moment we are both still working...But John turns 65 in March so we have smaller trips in mind initially. Then with a. Bit of luck we'll do the big one !!!! Hope to see some of you out there...

dunno quite how this system works, my computer is still steam-powered. I'm (medically) retired and more silver/white than grey but still lots of it. would like to correspond with single ladies who are also living the dream. I'm told private messaging is the way this is done (I'm not up with the tec...