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Hi fellow GNs, First time posting, but an avid follower of the site for months now. We are virgin caravaners, so please be gentle with us. We purchased a Coromal Silohette 2nd hand, and after a couple of short trips have found that these old bones are having a bit of trouble setting it up. Otherwise love t...

Any advice on on these. For tuning my aerial to the best direction for a signal. I've always just looked around the campsite to see where everyone else's aerial is trained, and wondered about a signal finder. I have a Sat Dish as well and already have two Sattelite Finder gizmos. Now I have not tried usi...

Only myself and Happywander here at present left out of all Gray Nomads. Weather,was today vey nice. Hope the same for tomorrow and the New Year. There 's here a literal tent town now, with even a Mirrage Pub. No buzz, though. Just some cold water and ice. But this does a lot of good, in the hit of a day, does...

briche and kiwi-as /kiwi rainbow have been spending time together at Rye on the Mornington Peninsula for about two weeks or so and we were joined today by Doug-we. We had not seen him since his return from Greens Lake and it was great to catch up and find out what he has been up to. Thanks mate for making the...

Having just taken delivery of our new Jayco with Nitrogen filled tyres we wonder how other owners have found this in use. Apart from the obvisious cost and availability issues has anyone got any comments? Thanks

Weve just come back with our rig from a round trip from Perth to Wave Rock, down through Ravensthorpe to Hopetoun, then back along the South Coast to Denmark and home again passing through Manjimup.Just thought the following information on sites we stayed at might be of use to WA travelers and visito...

How many Nomads check there Safety Switches in their Caravans on a regular bases? Also do you check the Safety switch. (RCD, LCD) at the caravan Park prior to connecting your power lead?

Somebody told me recently about getting jobs driving hire-motorhomes back to their base. Cant remember the name of the company. (Senior moment) Does anybody have experience of this?

There has been a change to the VAST down frequency. For the full details see this post on the general forum. Could not be bothered doing it again Brian

Birdsville phones are out of action, and the town might be out of business until the New Year. Phones lines to the outback Queensland town have been cut since Christmas Eve, meaning businesses cant access landlines for Eftpos and credit card payments. And many families have not been able to receive...

What is the road like from Grafton to Glen innes towing a van??

Sorry I am a newbie and posted this item in the general area....please read it there

HOWDY everyone, anyone got any info on the roma to emerald rd via rolleston. I am under the assumption that a lot of heavy transport use this road/highway including wide loads. hmmm just wondering of any feed back please. cheers Crocodile

Hi all, just bought a new 4.4kva generator on Ebay for $560. Will pick it up when we resume our trip this weekend. Will run the aircon and washing machine, plus charge batteries in the wet.

Hi All --- I'm a 1ST Timer to the forum so hope I'm doing this right! ------- Xmas Greetings to all ------ I'm looking at a new TV for the RV and considering the 16" KOGAN which is LED DVD PVR etc for $139 ----- anyone got any comments -- good or bad? ---- Tah.

We are 2 married grey nomads in west aust just joined this forum. Robbo and Sandy

Warning: There is still a moral to this story! ! ! I was a young man very happy. My girlfriend and I were dating for over a year and we decided to get married. Only downside: the young and beautiful sister. Very sexy, my future sister was 22, always wore tight t-shirts and most of the time without a bra. Ev...

News from Greens has dropped off the Forum of late. Have our adventurous travellers gone into hibernation or is it that the Grey Nomads are home wrapping goodies for Christmas. I have been toying with the idea of hitching up and staying at Greens for the festive season, but the thought of being there al...

What would you do if on christmas eve you found $99,283.00

Well another 1,000kls return trip to the coast to have xmas with family, It was a great few days & the traffic flow that we experienced all appeared to be doing the correct thing . Thanks to all for wanting the info on the insulation of fridges as per Techie's corner . I have been very busy here for a whi...