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Happy birthday to Barrie and Recoup for tomorrow. Hope you both have a fantastic day wherever you spend it. Hip hip hooray

Have made it to Westmar today for my overnight stop. First stop was Wooroolin Wetlands. A cold nights minus 1.3. But had my hottie with me. Plenty of parking there, just north of Kingaroy. Last night at Kumbia where I was plugged Into power and had my little oil fin heater on all night. Warm as toast. J...

I have just bought another 3.7kg bottle of gas which lasts me about a week, Swap & Go. The fella at Bunnings said that for another $2 I could have bought 9kg - that's more than twice as much gas! The sticking point is my 2 little bottles sit in a fiberglass compartment under the lounge but above the flo...

I am sure this an essential item in every good well maintained Motorhome or caravan.

Why, Why, Why? Why do we press harder on a remote control when we know the batteries are almost dead? Why do banks charge a fee on 'insufficient funds' when they already know there is not enough money? Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars; but have to check when you...

I went and renewed my Rego for the 4X4 a couple of days ago, and was told that next year I would not get a reminder for the Rego. This is something that we have been used to for eons now and it is ONLY DONE AS A COURTESY for us. So fellow GNs we will have to have a bunch of stickit notes all over the place to remi...

I just looked and noticed that the rabid nsw supporters are very Quiet this morning. Is it because they got flogged 26 to 6 last night at Lang park in Qld? And Krudd is back as PM, so QLD WINS on both fronts.Might be too early for certain people who need self medication before they post.Will be a great game i...

From today's Sydney Morning Herald: They live in a caravan more than a house, spend months at a time travelling around Australia and know more camping sites than most Australians have had cold beers on a summer's evening. But don't call John and Elaine Tickner grey nomads. They say they're part of a sp...

Have been doing the tourist thing ,for the last four days while staying with family near Mareeba. Gee time flys when you are having fun. Went out to what is known as the only pub in QLD where you have to supply your own beer.What a nostalgic time warp this old pub is The Espanol Pub at Lappa Junction. The bl...

Met Anton (Loki) and Gypsy Rover (Christine) today and had a wonderful time with them.

Hello all Still at the wier till Thurs and then heading to Theresa dam ,not sure what the service is like but poor at the wier Will catch up with old boar if still there Ken

Hello all - What are your ideas on having an oven and or grill in your campers? Also where do you get the 'funny' avatars from? There really are some beaut ones. Thanks again - happy camping - Nelly

Hi What is the best way to travel from Cairns to Darwin? I have been told that it is 4wd only to go across from Cairns and I would need to come back down to Townsville and travel across through Hughnden etc if I wanted a better road. All suggestions welcome. I only have an XTrail and have no desire to do 4wd al...

I bought a smart Phone this morning and the smart young thing who served me was quite sure that the phone could use the 3G service even though it had NextG in the info given on the packaging. I still have my doubts, need the Telstra 3G signal when travelling. Don't you hate it when these smart young things...

I'm told panels are a lot lighter than they used to be. Read the other posts here about solar. I want to trickle feed the existing battery in my pop-top when I'm off power. Van is very new (delivered 29/5). Should I let a dealer do it, forget it (too many risks...leaks, fitting etc), or consider it a possi...

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=cf0_1372050046 Can't help the language [ play on mute if sensitive to some of the more robust parts of the English language ] in this but it's a good example of how the bloke towing the caravan could have been in serious bother if everything turned to custard. Makes...

Hello Fellow Travellers, Well we have another caravan and Nissan Patrol. We have left Newcastle and have started out again. We are in Parkes today visiting with some friends. We are thinking of heading back to WA as we have heard there are a lot of good jobs for motor mechanics there. Just wondering whi...

I have been having a lot of trouble with my internet dropping out intermittently, on and off. Bigpond did a line check for me and said there was something wrong with the line, so arranged for a Telstra Tech to come out and investigate. He had some hi tech stuff he bought with him to check the line from ins...

OK, all you tech heads out there, here's another one for you - my hot water heater has been kind of hit and miss last few nights. I can usually hear it when the gas ignites but tonight it isn't catching alight, it's trying to ignite - it tries 3 times and then gives up and the 'On' light just stays on rather th...