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Why is it so expensive to rego a van in NSW. My mere 16 Ft van which spends about a max of 30 days on the road cost $255.00 while my boat and trailer which is much heavier than the van and spend more time on the road cost $55.00 Even a 2 tonne box trailer or car transporter cost less than a van

Hi All, I am another newbie, having just joined your forum after lurking for a good while.Pajero DID towing 16ft 10 in Jayco Freedom poptop living in BrisbaneRegardsReg

I am in need of some advice, please. I'm interested in the above...did think I was onto a good thing for a conversion. BUT, a salesman said Japanese used vehicles haven't been serviced regularly and I could end up with one which needs a new motor, abt $8000 for a deisel...so he said. I've heard measure tw...

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Hi Everyone! We have been on the road now for 3 months and had some great inland and coastal experiences. Will be at Bowen this weekend for the local rodeo then heading onto the tip. Does anyone have any recent (past week or so) knowledge if it is open and passable? We are going to leave our van and tent it t...

We had a call tonight from the people next door there is a light on in your house ,do you want us to have a look inside they have a key to our house, so in they go and find a bit of a mesh books on the floor lots of things out of places then they found who was responsible sitting in the kitchen draw a Possum . It had co...

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John Howard, Queen Elizabeth, and Vladimir Putin all die and go to hell. While there, they spy a red phone and ask what the phone is for. The devil tells them it is for calling back to Earth. Putin asks to call Russia and talks for 5 minutes. When he is finished the devil informs him that the cost is a millio...

Good afternoon, I have a honda generator 10i, which is not suitable for a normal portable heater. Been looking at a 12 volt heater from ebay, but i have heard that it will drain my battery within a half an hour. Can some please help me with this. Marv

Hi all, would like to know your opinion of having your names on the back of the van, I don't exactly mean the name of your van eg "thewoodshack", but the first names of the people travelling - guess it maks it a bit more polite if you need to call someone up on the UHF, but would be interested in o...

Hi Guys well we are off this morning heading from Gawler to Queensland via mildura hay ect etc, Hope to finally meet up with some of you guys out there we have to be back in november so we havn't got much time ha ha ha, Have tryed to tell the freinds & family that while they are working we have the hard ta...

Occurs to me that a can crusher might be a useful object on the road, especially when bush camping or on a long outback trip. I mean the ones with a handle that you pull down and, bingo, you have a much smaller amount of aluminium to carry away for disposal. Where would you buy one? Anyone seen a crusher rece...

If you want to learn about Grey nomad life just get started lot of information to be gained on the road so many different ways to do things sure to find a way that suits you

The Two Storey Dunny !!! Yep!!! This pretty much says it all. Nuff said!!!

Just wondering if anyone has one of those nintendo dsi xl things with brain training on them. Thought it might be a useful travel game but don't know much about them.

Is this close enough to the water Darling?