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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?

WE HAD A RELAXING WEEK CAMPING IN OUR LOTUS CARAVAN ON TEEWAH BEACH

I wrote a poem about my experience Torrens Creek After hours on the road on a dusty outback track Returning to Townsville from a trip to Broome and backWe came across this outback town of Torrens Creek On the Flinders Highway 88 ks from Hughenden to the westAbout 150 ks from Charters Towers to the east...

> Subject: Stimulus Package! > > It's a slow day in a dusty little Australian town. The sun is beating > down and the streets are deserted. Times are tough, everybody is in > debt, and everybody lives on credit. > > On this particular day, a rich tourist from down south is driving...

After being married for 44 years, a friend took a careful look at his wife one day and said, "darling, 40 years ago we had a cheap apartment, a cheap car, slept on a sofa bed and watched a 10-inch black and white TV, but I got to sleep every night with a hot 25-year-old girl. Now I have a $5...

We were down at the Tweed just on a drive, with our caravanning friends. We decided to have a look at a couple of caravan parks, just for a possible weekend away. No names no pack drill.... but one of the parks on the beach quoting from their flyer..... Beach Front Tourist Site (powered), and you couldn...

well the day finally came, I officially finished work after 47 years at 3pm today, Thursday! Hubby NOT happy as he has to stay working for two or three more months until both houses are sold. Anyway he is eight months younger than me so he should stay longer I say! We have put our deposit on a 24 foot Grandc...