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G'day We are planning a trip to Karumba via Charters Tower at the end of next month. We are towing a large van with a Triton V6 petrol motor. My concern is if there plenty of places where I can fill up along the way, as I don't have long range fuel tanks. I also believe it's illegal to carry fuel in jerry c...

Moved to Techie's corner....................... -- Edited by Mark on Wednesday 26th of June 2013 11:03:02 PM

My son sent me this. They were a great innovation for the time. And a couple of famous Aussie faces from the 70's there too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yx0I8uedL4

Have moved into the van so was updating details on the car insurance today. Apparently as I will have no fixed address the underwriters will not insure me and my policy will expire next week!! As it happens we have a fixed address until mid August and then we hit the road. I explained that this is a friends...

We wish to announce the arrival of Ashleigh; grand daughter No 2 at 1.30 pm today, @ 8lb 9oz. Her mum had a big day but all is good at this point in time. Jim & Leonie. JC.

There is a trap for young players when looking for the Calliope River Rest Area and driving from the south, you would think that the camp is in Calliope and take the Calliope turnoff at a bend in the highway with currently huge road works. Not so that road will take you to Biloela without a sign to get you ba...

Hello everyone, My wife and I(46,53) are thinking of taking some long service leave and doing a test run of about 6 weeks before we retire. We have some basic questions. Why does, for example, a mitubishi triton have a braked towing capacity of 2700kg and a Falcon ute has 1700kg when they are a similar v...

On the edge of Lake Egirdir, Turkey. Not a bad free camp? Ours is the one on the right

hey girl .. you're lookin' younger every year .. enjoy !

Just like the way this one came out. On the road between Rosewood & Rosevale, SE Qld. ( NO, there's no Rosebud or Rosemary nearby.) Hope you like it.

Hello all we have just purchased a coromal lifestyle 667 and we were hoping for some advice regarding our solar setup we are getting 3x64 uni solar stick on panels on the roof we also have 2 x 105 amp batterries in van all wired up through coramal dealership can anyone tell us would this system be enough ju...

I've posted this pic mainly for Bill12's benefit. It's a pic taken of my slide-on when it was on eBay showing the storage bins and awnings. The box trailer was the one used to deliver it to my place (after I told the bloke I had the wrong type of ute, which was a Falcon tub at the time). I thought I hadn't saved...

Hi there, I have a few questions (don't we all?!) I was hoping you may help us with. We just ordered our new van yesterday, its a 20ft 2.6t New Age Oz Classic. We are really happy with the van and all, but now Im worried that my little 04 sti TD Navara wont be up to the task of towing it efficiently and effecti...

Hope this is ok, but I thought I'd bring the thread back and ask how many GN'S are up here in North Queensland? There are so many vans and motor homes on the road up this way,so thought I'd ask the question Beautiful weather at the moment to be up this way too! if you are up here enjoy Cheers Sol

There are six CPs in Eden (NSW Far South Coast) and 5 of them are pet friendly. The only exception is the peak times of Christmas and Easter. Someone recently said how good Garden of Eden CP was. We would agree (it's Top Tourist) but have also found Eden Tourist Park at Aslings Beach is very good. It's adv...

Am excited about the next week, can't sleep waiting for the new day to begin so here I am at 3.00AM typing on the blog and forum. This is the plan. Wednesday morning set off to Maroochydore after having said good bye to Marj whose company i have enjoyed here at Kumbia then having a look round Kingaroy, N...

We have bought a Samsung Galaxy Tablet 10.1. Had it about three months now and find it very useful for travelling. The Old Laptop has been retired to a bedroom of it's own. Also we now use a HEMA HN6 navigator (GPS) running OziExplorer. I have been able to load the oziexplorer maps onto the Gal...

I'm going to be getting to Townsville in a few days (prob around Friday) and I'm looking for somewhere cheap to stay - doesn't have to be fancy. I've heard that there's a place called the Polocross club in a suburb called Stewart (prob spelled incorrectly, my apologies) but I can't find it in any of my u...

The further we have travelled south the more layers of clothing we have been putting on.Gee how spoilt we have been for the past three odd weeks up around the Cape.We arrived at Port Douglas to the normal hum drum of a place buzzing with tourists all over the place, we took a drive around and had a look into...

Hi guys. As some of you may recall, we get our van in October and we'll stay in this area and do smaller trips (with the grandkids)for the first few months, then we plan on heading south after Christmas for our first big trip. We've got an idea of the direction we are heading, but we're really not sure of how...