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G'day, We have just sold our home purchase a large van and plan to live and travel till who knows when. Having bought a seconed hand van I didn't realise on how much we needed to buy before we could take off, as the only thing the seller left was the sullage hose. After many trips too and from suppliers and...

I must appologise for being rather talkative tonight, but it was 40+ degrees in the drill rig cab today and I've been cooling off with my favourite beverage.

There are still some problems with forum pages being loaded from the computer's cache and not reloading properly. Until the computer geniuses at Sparklit (third party hosts of the forum) sort the problem I suggest hitting Ctrl F5 (that is the Ctrl key and the function key F5 at the same time) when a pag...

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Hi John, I know you have some info on your blog regards the area East of Esperance, but in general what do you consider was the best free camping area or caravan park etc please. I have been to Esperance on several occasions, but have never explored the eastern side further than Frenchman's Peak (anothe...

We have had two reasons to recomment this mechanic. Late last year, we purchased from a store in Gawler, the gear we required to self-service our Nissan Patrol. Unfortunately, we picked up the wrong oil filter, and as the oil had been drained from the 4wd, were unable to go back to Gawler to change. We...

The National Parks have set up a new booking system at the Arakoon state recreational centre, ( Trail bay jail, south west rocks). According to local paper they introduced the new system about last Oct, The story is that people who had bookings for the 2012/13 xmas period arrived to find that they had...

Is anybody from the GN's down at the Illawarra Folk Festival? I am, if you want to meet and greet. I am camped in the middle of the field with the tents and have a grey Elite camper next to another identical grey Elite camper and I have a red Corolla. Sometimes there is a big black Hilux with Elite Products on...

Many of you may have followed the thread in techies on 12 volt fans fitted to fridges, which ended up being closed. If you did then you know that I done the recomended installation as set by Waeco , to which I then posted that I had some very good results, available via PM/email to which I supplied to many me...

Two deaf people get married. During the first week of marriage, they find that they are unable to communicate in the bedroom when they turn off the lights because they can't see each other using sign language. After several nights of fumbling around and misunderstandings, the wife decides to find a s...

Quite a dull day after yesterdays sunshine so I walked around Greens Beach and found a walking track suggesting a round trip of 3 hours, perfect just what I was looking for. Greens Beach West Head Coastal Track. I set off around 9am and followed the well marked path which turned into a long loop around We...

Do you know those inventions that are so fantastically awesome that they feel like magic? That's not what the iArm is, but that doesn't stop me from wanting...no...demanding that someone makes this miraculous accessory for the good of all mankind. I've already ordered three. One for each arm and on...

Is anybody from the GN's down at the Illawarra Folk Festival? I am, if you want to meet and greet. I am camped in the middle of the field with the tents and have a grey Elite camper next to another identical grey Elite camper and I have a red Corolla. Sometimes there is a big black Hilux with Elite Products on...

I see some of the owners have talked about fences to keep the dogs enclosed in when you have set up camp ? I think this is a great idea any ideas on where to buy them do they have different heights?

looking at buying newairconditioner for ourcoachtossing upwith a aircommand or a coleman replacing our8yr old electrolux also tossing up aboutputting a spilt system in butwilltake abit of messing around thought oncoleman or aircommand willbe appreciated cherylle and wayne

Just realized that I have been in company of Grey Nomads from the forum continuously since the middle of October some 3 months. So much for solo travelling. Left Billeee & Jules at Bracknell and headed through Launceston and on the the East Tamar Highway wanting to drive up to Low Head and see Georg...

Hi Fello Nomads, Valerie & I are hoping to take a extended trip up the centre turning right at Threeways and head for Mt Isa, then via Cloncurry to Normington & the Gulf Country and then head across to the Atherton Table lands then north to Cooktown and after return via the east coast (not the Blo...

I've noticed many posters will add a link to their message for the rest of us to peruse which is great but, because it isn't done properly we have to cut and paste the link to a new browser window to view the link. To make it easier for us readers would people please try to add the link using the supplied icon a...

G'day fellow travellers, we are thinking of buying a caravan or motorhome in Europe & giving it a 6 month run through parts of Europe. Would appreciate any feed back from anyone who has done this, we not sure if a caravan or motorhome is the 'go'. All advice will be greatly appreciated. Cheers 'D...

Well folks, after lurking on this forum for the past 12 months or so and gaining a great deal of info, thanks everyone, we are almost ready to hit the road! House and furniture sold and have got rid of 40 years worth of stuff!! very stressful last 6 months but it has been worth it. Hubby and I have finally re...