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Hi everyone. Over the past 12 years I have been living and working away from my family. They're in SA and I was in the Kimberleys. I made it routine to go south every second year. On the alternate years I would join fellow van park residents in an "Orphan's Christmas" where whoever came along...

G,day Im thinking of changing my normal plunge type brakes and installing electric. Being a retired plumber i know nutting about mechanics ,so question is are they easy to fit but more important what s a good unit to install, i have a small poptop van if that counts for anything. Emails or a...

'Whatever you give a woman, she will make greater. If you give her sperm, she'll give you a baby. If you give her a house, she'll give you a home. If you give her groceries, she'll give you a meal. If you give her a smile, she'll give you her heart. She multiplies and enlarges what is given to her. So, if you g...

Current prices in Melbourne seem to be around $1.04 for petrol and $1.40 for diesal -how does this compare elsewhere. I paid $1.25/LT in Loch Sport a few days ago

G'day, The B.O.S.S. and me have a 15 foot, 1984 Jayco Songbird Poptop and as she is a little long in the tooth I decided the time was right to retension the springs and undersling the axle to gain a little more ground clearance, well bugger me now I need mountain climbing gear to get in the damned thing,...

This is a special tribute to Dave on post number 1000 and his wonderful contributions to this forum. Remember that song by Harry Belafonte called The Banana Boat Song ???? Just to remind you it goes like this............. Day o day-ee-oh, daylight come and he wanna go homeSix foot seven foot eight...

Just thought I would mention three wines I have been trying lately -Three Brothers reunited Shiraz rated by Nicks wine merchants as best shiraz under $10 -can vouch for this - an excellent drop. Also Sauvignon Blanc -Murf's has two -NZ wines which are quite good in my view -Toi Toi $9.50 and Overstone $...

> > > > > > > > An Asian woman goes in to her local NAB Branch and > begins exchanging her money. > > After the transaction is complete she asks the teller > 'Why it change, yesterday I get two hunat dollar for...

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This might seem like a silly question, but to a newbie who is just starting to plan ahead for our nomad adventure, how do you cope with laundry duty when you are on long trips? Especially if you are trying to stay bush, or in National Parks as much as possible? Thanks for a great site, I will be making the mos...

You can bet your bottom dollar on it , ready to go to South West Rocks in the morning and the bloody fridge has fagged out not getting cold on 240V, compressor running and all seems in go position . Could it require just simple regassing, it's about 8 Years old. Know bugger all about the working of van fr...

We have a tent style camper trailer and would like to know where other campers have their fridge. We have a 32 litre Engel. Is it best to place it in your vehicle or in the camper? If we put in a dual battery where does this battery go? For longer trips should we use the fridge as a freezer and use an esky as well...

To all the ADF Vets out there you will be pleased to know that the government is reviewing a situation where our families were getting ripped off even after our death . It took a lot of work by a lot of people to get the government to even recognize that there are anomalies in the DVA system so getting it...

I don't travel with a pet myself, but always enjoy meeting those who do. I remember meeting an old feller near Gladstone who travelled with some sort of parrot. Not sure how many words the bird knew, but I swear the two of them would have more in-depth conversations than I've ever had with my other half...

To all those traveling over the holidays, Safe travels If in NSW beware, now that year 12 has finished up the young wankers are out there in force driving around all day with nothing to do but circuits and bumps around town in Mums / Dads car At least when school was in the roads were safer between 9 -2 . Th...

mate it must be well over a week now since your last update, hell I hope you are not crook again, if not, wheres our update, we are in this together and if I cant get there to help you and interfere and generally get in your way then at least let me errr!!! I mean us!!! see what you've done Pleeeeeeaaaassse!!!...

We are from Melbourne and are about to realise a long held dream of hitting the road and joining the Grey Nomad tribe. Yesterday we put a deposit on a beautiful new Adria Adora caravan - one which we have been going back to have a look at over about 18 months! We don't move that quickly!! We intend taking...

Learned a good caravan lesson today, on my first trip with a new van (a Jayco Flamingo wind-up camper). Lesson is this: when you leave your driveway, check that the bloody van parking brake is NOT on. Becos if you don't, about five kms up the road, a horrible smell will come when you put the brakes on at a tr...

Have been reading this site for a few weeks now and took the plunge yesterday to log in. Love how everybody is keen to help and pass on lots of info. Not exactly a solo but we are 2 girls on the go. Travelled the circumference of Oz in 2005 and 2006 with our trusty "Tammy" the 80 series Cruiser an...

found this while bludging Errr!!! hmmpphhh!! catching up with some statements with the putey When the white man discovered this country Indians were running it. No taxes no debt, women did all the work White man thought he could improve on a system like this. ~ Old Cherokee Saying smart people those i...