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We are about to hit the road full time and would like to take our camp oven and hot plate. Just wondering how many opportunities we will have to use this at free camp sites due to availability of firewood. ??

I am not sure what's going on this way but for the second year in a row my rego has come to my house 3 days before it is due! Main Roads say they send them 6 weeks before they are due, wonder if this is a way for them to get late fee's? Anybody else having this trouble?

Thinking of getting rid of my old anologue TV with Digital Box for one of the newer ones, preferably LCD/LCD/HD What I would like on it is an inbuilt DVD recorder and player and connections for the old VHS tapes. Is there such a thing? Also, are movies going the way of 3D now and should I look at one with th...

I am excited!! As I look out the front window of our home I am reminded that it is not a dream but our 24ft Crusader caravan I can see and touch!! Yeeaah!! My name is Rob and I am married to Kim. We live in Gympie QLD. see you on the road Rob Kim

Hi everyone, I thought I would jump on and just ask what people do about storing there potatoes. We don't have a separate storage area in the bench top like in some of the vans we have owned, thanks for all the help we have received up to now, less than 24 hours before departure, looking foreward to meeting...

If you see on the road come and say G'day, I leave Brisbane 25-jly head west to Bedourie up to Mt Isa accross to Darwin then home along the Savannah way to Cairns. Dennis

Till I am in Townsville, yippeeeee. Can't wait to get away from this cold weather for a week. I am going to make the very first step to retiring full time Friday morning when I see my tax man. I am going to ask him to explain his comment to me last year in more detail about now I am 60 I can retire. My boss and I ha...

The Grey Nomads website has now reached the 4000 member mark which is fantastic and a testiment to our webmistress Cindy's original concept and hard work in designing this website & keeping it going. I hope all these new members drop in & say hello & possibly even contribute to one of the m...

Gday... Cheers - John

Hi apologies for posting a question before we introduced ourselves.We are Dave and Carol, I am a Scott, who first came to Australia as a ten pound pom almost forty years ago, since then I have moved around Sydney, Melbourne, Ballarat, Wodonga, Bathurst, Albury, Japan, Thailand, Mexico, New Zealand...

At Normanton - free camp on the north bank of the Norman River - about 2k from town - 1k as the bird flies - free two night permit from Visitors Info Centre - Ranger comes and checks - bit dusty, and bumpy - no facilities. Ok though.

Hi this is my first ever forum post, so please bear with me if I do things a little wrong. We are at the planning stage, starting from scratch to work out what we will need to live on the road for a couple of years, and one of the topics I do not understand all of the ramifications off is free camping. I am fine w...

get to you all in good time ,just give me a bit of time to get onto my own 2 feetses ,am realy looking forward too green lake see ya later and a huge thanks rod

I know that some of you have been following Lulu's reno, so I thought I'd tell you the latest. Dan to the rescue again!

2nd son Rob had fitted the new springs last week. Yesterday, 1st son Dan came out to sort the weight distribution problem. The ball weight turned out to be 95kg...way to heavy for L...

When I type 1770 into the search button I get 26 matches availble. But only 5 show up with no way of accessing the remainder. No matter which way I do it I still only get the same 5. Has anyone got any idea how to get the lot when going through the seach button.

We have moved to Rocky Creek for three days while we have a look around. Quite a few vans and motorhomes here but no where near as many as Mareeba. Plenty of room for a lot more although it will be shut down over the weekend because is victory day celebrations. Thanks to the crew at Mareeba for a great time. S...

Hi all, Just some general info on some road conditions, we have just travelled from Adels Grove (Lawn Hill) to Bouila & then to Winton(we are here for then night) roads are in very good conditions,very dry & dusty,weather is just great (28c) lots of travelers on the road, but we have always fou...

I'm heading off tomorrow for another job. Starting at Adelaide, heading to Broken Hill via Gladstone, then on to Lyndhurst. I won't know the exact route until I see the permit which allows us to take oversize loads on specified roads around the country. The hardest part about this job is getting paid...

Joe and John were identical twins. Joe owned an old, dilapidated boat and kept pretty much to himself. One day, he rented out his boat to a group of out-of-staters who promptly sank it. Joe spent all day trying to salvage as much stuff as he could and was out of touch all that day and most of the evening.Unb...