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thanks for your thoughts and comments everything ok at present heading out again on monday for coonabarabran thanks again percy-maggie

well i have a grandaughter (a little sis for ryan due 10th march) last night we drove down to capalaba because daughter has gone into labour for the third time? so we drove down in pouring rain only to once again see her sent home?.She was 5 minutes apart and soon as she got to the hospital the pains were no w...

Dave06, thinking of you mate, hope all is going well & you are soon back in the glass castle or on the river bank some where doing a bit of r&r. We leave Mataranka saturday for the Roper rv ,just been waiting for the Hodgson rv to drop so we can cross it. Cheers mate & take care. Jim. -- Edited by...

Hello to you all. We're not as brave as some of you, who are happy to pull up stakes and hit the road for a nomadic existence until whoever knows when, but Mrs. Catters and I have organised about 3 months to ourselves for later this year, and are planning to adventure our way around the coast for a while. We...

I know Cindy frowns on us mentioning other sites but I will just ask this, if any of you fellows (or gals) come across a campsite that is of note please place it in the camping section of here and also go to this site and add it in there....http://ozcamps.net/... I have just placed a heap in there and it can o...

Watched this 2002 movie on conman Frank Abigale? played by Leonardo, very interesting movie and how he ended up working for the FBI. Another great ficional conman who lived in a fantasy world (most of us have met one or know of one) was Walter Mitty, the old movie of that is being re-made using Mike Myers...

Just happened to see a english couple here last night at the camp kitchen, they were in the motel rooms & travelling in a hire car. He was just amazed at the hwy up here ,long & staight , very little traffic.That was all good ,then he proceded to brag about travelling at 180kls ph all the way up from...

We are finally on the road full time. Our motel settled on Monday, spent tuesday sorting out the last minute things, van had first service and we head out of town today. Heading to say good bye to family in the Western District of Vic and we are off. I was jealous as hell of these posts when I was still work...

Click on this link below and see if it reminds you of any local enterprise. http://www.brownfools.co.uk/

Just curious as to how many " nomads" actually live and roam in their vans etc 24/7

A dentist noticed that his next patient, a little old lady, was nervous, so he decided to tell her a little joke as he put on his gloves. 'Do you know how they make these gloves?' he asked. 'No, I don't,' she replied. 'Well,' he spoofed, 'there's a building in Canada with a big tank of latex, and workers of a...

HI EVERY ONE ME AND MAGGIE HAVE BEEN ON THE ROAD FOR 14 DAYS NOW ON OUR BIG ADVENTURE AND HAVE HAD OUR SHARE OF TROUBLE WE HAD TO GET RID OF OUR TUG AS WE WERE ONLY GETTING 300K PER TANK OF PETROL AROUND $80 HAVE SOLVED THAT PROBLEM AND NOW HAVE A TOYOTA LAND CRUISER ON GAS THE LAST PART OF OUR JOURNEY WE GOT 390K O...

For those interested in the inland flood water this is a great site with Pictures. Worth the Look. http://www.wrightsair.com.au/floodwaternews.htm C.U.

after reading Denise's mattress improvements I got to thinking, what modifications have you folks made to your sharabangs, I will post some shots as soon as the cut and shut crew finish with me

Why does it have to be so ruddy hard to buy a new car? We don't want much, 4x4 diesel Auto big enough to tow the van (17.5ft). Looked at a few, been for a few test drives and liked a few. The problem is we have a budget and I refuse to go over it, but all these new cars have so many "optional extras" that...

Hi there all you Solo travelers. Wondered if anyone from the North of Tassie is a member? I like to get away down here for several days here and there in the summer just around Tassie, and up north (The Big Island) for a few months during winter. I go on my own (Accompanied by my faithful Sheltie), but it wou...

Moving on saturday to the Roper. Will catch up again in a few days. Be kind to each other.

Have never stayed there but go to the club house nearly every friday nite I do the clubs meat raffels for the footy club . Club opens at about 5 pm raffels start a 6pm very quite club beer is great. The club has a cheap camping ground with several power sites and heaps of unpower sites ther...

We have finally sorted out the car. Late08 ford territory. Van 04 Jayco Freedom.All wiring for the brakes fitted, garmin nuvi loaded with the camps 5 downloaded, fridge finally working and soon we will be off. Easter is to be a small run to test what we can (including how the four legged kids will travel...

Greetings all. House settled 9/2 and things are as good as. I'm now the very proud owner of a Coromal Capri..20 footer,shower, toilet,solar,wheels lol!.I'm still in Rocky sorting out a few things but will head for Melbourne next weekend, with a few stops along the way, to pick up the van and spend so...