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Anyone out there with a Dometic B3300 aircon mounted on a motorhome who can tell me what the power draw is to start and run the unit. Have been into the dometic site but no help on this topic. Thanks

Yeah wipe the smirk of ya faces.....I know I was warned about spares..... So I try to buy an oil filter and whadayaknow, nil stock.... so nil desperandum I look elsewhere and Autopro has a nongenuine one slightly more expensive than the genuine one..... I suspect there may be some nasty busness going...

If there is so many old farts, sorry, "Grey Nomads" traveling around the country why havent we formed a contract with an oil company so we can get our fuel cheeper, fleet owners get a huge discount, we are MANY strength in numbers as they say, anyone have any ideas on how to go about this ?

A couple had been married for 50 years. They were sitting at the breakfast table one morning when the wife says, 'Just think, fifty years ago we were sitting here at this breakfast table together.' 'I know,' the old man said. 'We were probably sitting here naked as a jaybird fifty years ago.' 'Well,' Gr...

Here are two shots of a couple of the best free camps you will ever come across. Both in Queensland - the first is a little place called Kajabbi - on the banks of the Leichhardt River. Not much else there 'cept the local pub. The second is Middleton - has all amenities at the pub across the road and camp as lon...

Bubs made mention of writing up the trip. I think that if we feel comfy writing about trips both long and short, it's a great thing to do, almost theraputic in a way as it really makes one think about the people you meet, places you visit etc and great to read again later too. I started writing about my trip...

> >> > A refuse collector is driving along a street picking up the > >> > wheelie bins and emptying them into his compactor. > >> > He goes to one house where the bin hasn't been left > >> > out, and in the spirit of kindness, > >> > and after...

Have just set up a telstra prepaid wireless account on the new laptop. It seems that you don't get an email account using the prepaid system,so am looking at others to use. Don't like yahoo or hotmail, always seem to get to much c**p on them. GMail seems to be in vogue at the moment. Does anyone use it?

Hello All, Now here's a question for those who have been around caravans a while. My van [1989 Coromal Aussie Tourer] like many other vans has a 12V globe within each of the usual overhead light fittings [shared with 240V globes] operated by a separate [brown] switch mounted on each of the lights. Is it...

Hi all fellow travellers, I plan to be in Tasmania in Feb and am wanting to spend some nights in my hired campervan at free camping sites or informal areas. I will be starting off around Port Arthur so am especially interested in any possible camping sites within an hours drive of this area. i would only b...

Yeah I used to have a bumper sticker with my ribbons on the back of the car & Van but I discovered that it attracted morons for some reason. I travel anonymously now....

I notice the most number of users on line has been reset to today's date

This went around work yesterday and makes you wonder what they were thinking!!!! It's that time again... The Darwin Awards are finally out, the annual honorgiven to the persons who did the gene pool the biggest service by killingthemselves in the most extraordinarily stupid way. Last year's winn...

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G'Day all. New here and working it all out, Firstly if anyone is up around Mission Beach way or intending to travel up this way I have a small rainforrest property that has all the mod cons and about five camp sites for mobile homes or caravans. Power and town water is there very private and not far to boat r...

Is there a problem with the download speed to the site . Notice of the the last few days that it appears to take a long time to light up the site or down load to it . Have tried a couple of other sites and my system seems up to speed there but not the same here on GN

Actually there is many titles to this article, Personally I am very unhappy over an incident that happened yesterday, allow me to relate it in full As you know I am staying with friends in Young, and as its the closest that I have been to the alps in about 30+ years suggested to Judy (who had never been ther...

Hello everybody, Ive been on the road for over a year now and want some time to unpack and relax for a year or so! Can anyone recommend a good website that sell Caravans onsite??? Im looking to buy in Noosa or Tewantin best wishes happy trails

Well gidday... I am soon about to head off on my first around Oz trip, and while searching for some information (which I didn't end up finding), I came across this forum. At this point I don't have any real plan of attack (route), although I have decided to start out by going to Tasmania around May (off-pe...

just thought I would show you this tool that I found whilst nosing around on the net, dont know who invented it but I pinched it and made one it is very usefull in getting those pegs out which simply refuse to come out, it is about 18" long and the handle is roughly 7" wide, these measurements are...