Recently Active Topics

I found this book in K-Mart today, it has all the info you would ever need on the road for each state, maps are Australia wide with info on all either rest stops, low cost van parks and the like. Each stop has a triangle with a number and then you look up that number under each states' map and it gives heaps of i...

Hi everybody sorry I have not had much to say lately. Anyway just had a thought it would be nice to know where Nomads on the road are at any given time so that those of us at home might be able to catch up with them as they pass through our area . Mabe share our local knowledge with them in exchange for stori...

If Automobiles Had Progressed Like Computers... At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated.. "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving twenty-five dollar cars th...

I got this in an email and thought it was very relavent to GEN Y Love him or hate him , he sure hits the nail on the head with this! Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created...

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/MOTORHOME-ELECTRICS-AND-CARAVANS-TOO-BY-COLLYN-RIVERS_W0QQitemZ160393159815QQcmdZViewItemQQptZCaravan_Parts_Accessorie...

4 mars bars 50 ml. milk (full cream) 4 tablespoons good cocoa 3 egg whites Chocolate shavings to decorate (I used a flake) METHOD Roughly chop mars bars and put into saucepan (preferably heavy base) with the milk and cocoa and heat over a very low heat and stir until the mars bars have melted, then whisk...

Having only done shortish trips, we've never stayed in any one place more than 8 days, and have always been busy tourists and done lotsa bushwalking. Now with the prospect of longer trips, I was wondering how people spend their days? Fishing? Reading? Tv watching? (Surely not!) Board Games? Knittin...

The only cow in a small town in Scotland stopped giving milk. The town folk found they could buy a cow in Wales quite cheaply. They brought the cow from Wales and it was wonderful, produced lots of milk every day and everyone was happy. They bought a bull to mate with the cow to get more cows, so they'd never...

TRUFFLES A LA BAILEY'S 1 cup (100g) plain sweet biscuit crumbs 1/2 cup coconut 1/4 cup chopped sultanas 1/2 cup icing sugar 1 tablespoon cocoa 60mls Baileys 1 tablespoon of water (forget the water add more Baileys) 1 tablespoon honey (forget the honey add more Baileys) Mix biscuit, coconut and sult...

For those of you who live or are travelling up north in Banana country and find yourselves with a surplus, here's one way to use up some of them. BANANA SALAD 2 desertspoons of a good quality mayonnaise 1 desertspoon of the chutney of your choice 1 desertspoon of tomato sauce 2 teaspoons of curry powder 1...

For his birthday, little Joseph asked for a 10-speed bicycle. His father said, "Son, we'd give you one, but the mortgage on this house is $280,000 and your mother just lost her job. There's no way we can afford it." The next day the father saw little Joseph heading out the front door with a sui...

Aw cmon, Lets get this topic moving

This fella went to a plastic surgeon because he was told he could graft on a new appendage and as the one he was born with was very small, to say the least and he thought the doctor could help him. The Surgeon examined him and said yes I can help, Iv'e got a...

We are about to head off for 12months tripping around. Hope to stay in free camp spots most of the time. Our van/4wd is set up with solar panels, batteries etc but we were wondering how most travellers top up their water tanks when on the road and not venturing into caravan parks.

New van arrived in Adelaide christmas eve, we called in boxing day on our way to port pirie. Still has to be detailed, solar panels fitted, etc. Hoping to pick up this coming weekend. Hand in my resignation on the 13Jan finish 13th feb and start the big adventure 2 days later.

Ok, some of these don't apply to us but it does make you stop and think this was sent to me by a friend in email. No I didn't check it on snopes, just thought it was another topic for conversation. At first I thought this was funny..... Then I realized the awful truth of it.Be sure to read all the way to the en...

Well I got the gen. forum moving, now I find this one has stopped, how about we all start contributing and also can we see some replies to posts to give encouragement to those who put recepies up.

Howdy fellow travellers, on behalf on my missus (Rose) i would like to introduce myself. My real name is Dave , but have been known as crocodile for gawd knows how long. I think i got that nickname from my many years as a truckie running around the countryside of Northern nsw (grafton) out west to Gundy a...

I am a diabetic so i know lots of these sorts of tricks. Take a Toblerone chocolate, break it in half being careful to hide the bit you dont use so no else can find it. Place the unhidden half of the chocolate in a heat proof bowl and add a good portion of thickened cream and if you wish a small drop of rum. Heat t...