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Time to pick the brains of this well travelled bunch of nomads. We will finally be aproaching the Great Ocean Road in a few days so am wondering where is the best spot to hit the coast to start our westerly sojourn, we will be coming from Ballarat & definately want to avoid any part of Melbourne. As to c...

A ventriloquist walked up to an Indian and said "I'll bet I can make your horse talk." Indian: "Horse no talk" Ventriloquist: "Sure watch this. Hi horse. How does you master treat you?" Horse: "Oh, he is good to me. He gives me food, water and he keeps me out of the...

A Nun and a Priest were crossing the Sahara desert on a camel. On the third day out, the camel suddenly dropped dead without any warning. After dusting themselves off, the Nun and the Priest surveyed their situation. After a long period of silence, the Priest spoke. 'Well, Sister, this looks pre...

Some days make you think there is just limit on what some people will hook up & tow with a mid size tug.Today I saw a new van that I would estimate to be 30/32ft tri axle behinde a mitsy tritan ute, dont know the tow weights on these but if any thing ever looked out of proportion & wrong this did.

A guy is driving around the back woods of Montana and he sees a sign in front of a broken down shanty-style house: 'Talking Dog For Sale ' He rings the bell and the owner appears and tells him the dog is in the backyard. The guy goes into the backyard and sees a nice looking Labrador retriever sitting there....

Plenty of similar views in this part of the world!

One of these brushed by my wife's arm which made a good conversation topic round the campfire that night.

Good day everyone, I'm an architecture student here at the University of Tasmania. In a recent assignment on transportable buildings, I've chosen the one that involves Grey Nomads. Just thought I'd try my luck here to see if anyone would be kind enough as to share some general information about Gre...

Hello all... I'm new to this forum stuff but not to the grey nomadding side of life. However, in a couple of weeks (June 2010) we head out from near Sydney on the big Round-Oz adventure (again) - this time my brother-in-law and his wife are following (and trying to keep up with) us. We have always stayed in...

any one seen one of these up close? http://www.littleguyaustralia.com.au/ I know my car can tow this and I have been talking with a local owner and also the people who make these and going to batemens bay to meet them and have a look at it hopefully later this week, which there kind enough to let me do.. an...

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Here goes with another dumb question. When free camping, where do you get your water from to fill you tanks? I realise if you are staying in a caravan park, you can top up before you leave, but can't imagine servos will allow you to fill your tanks as you fill up with fuel??? Not far from where I live, ther...

To tow our (potential) 24' caravan with ease, we envisage we need similar to nissan patrol, 6 cylinder diesel. prefer to purchase older model, as in pre 2006 / low milage, so we get vehjicle without emmission control. any nomads give me any hints on faults, known problems or recalls on these vehicles,...

At Gawler, South Australia. Cheers, Peter

Hello to everyone, This is my 1st post. I've been lurking around reading older topics to increase my knowledge and not ask questions that have been answered before. I'm deciding whether to buy a deisel van and do my own...with help conversion. I thought to use a duel fuel Coleman stove and for light a pr...

We all seem to be heading off. Some going North, some South, some East and West. We leave on Thursday and head to Arkaroola to take over toilet cleaning from Gary and Kerry. After our 4 or so weeks there we will probably head to Alice and then up and across to Queensland. With so many of us out on the road,...

well we left mudgee after a great week with every one and have just arrived in mundubbra qld going to allies creek tomorrow to have a look we will let you know how we go it rained all night last night and all day today it is bloddy wet and 25 degrees here percy-maggie and spike

Paddy and Mick are walking down a street in London . Paddy happens to look in one of the shop windows and sees a sign that catches his eye. The sign said: "Suits £5.00 each, Shirts £2.00 each, Trousers £2.50 per pair". Paddy says to his pal, "Mick, look! We could buy a whole lot of dose, and...

just wondering , i know you can have a reversing camera on your caravan or the back of your 4wd, but i was wondering if you could set up an additoinal camera ? ie have one on the side right at the back ,ie on the passenger side so you can see that your van is clear from any one when over taking?