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Hi Everyone out there enjoying our "back yard". We are new members and would like some help getting started. Early next year we want to chuck in our full time jobs, get out of this rat hole of suburbia, sell off the house and join the all you guys travelling this fantastic country. A. We need to...

Calling all families with kids on the road!!! My family and I are just about to embark on a 12 month adventure around Australia. Our kids are 9 year old girl and 7 year old boy and two dogs. We have got work up in Queensland for our first stop so the kids will go to school for term 4 of this year, but we will star...

I want to buy a camp fridge either 50 litre waeco or 32 litre Engel and are unsure which is the best Waeco or Engel

Left Adelaide midnite Sat, to Eucla 4pm,car only, strong winds, 3 hrs rain.1 hr snooze Iron Knob and lots of 5 min eye closures.long trip but great to break back as rest was relatively easy. Accom hard to get at Kalgoorlie as a large shutdown on,mines. beware early next month booked out for days some gol...

We are getting things organised to head off for a few years travelling/working around our great country and were wondering if you could advise us as to the best company to insure your motor vehicle while travelling. Our RACQ company will not cover us out of Queensland so can you please assist us with...

we have only just joined & are looking for some friendly advice. we have a jayco camper trailer (outback range) & a 4x4 single cab chassis with full canopy to pull it. we will be setting off for an extended period early 2009. what options have members found for insuring not only each of the rigs,...

I'm a first time user to this forum and I am anticipating a lot pf good common sense from all you grey nomads out there. I'm hoping my query is not to basic, but here goes! The wife and I are about 10 months away from STKI (spending the kids inheritence). We have a Jayco 16 foot Classique 92 model (Island be...

I was all prepared to go ahead and get the Cobb Cooker but have now read all about the Turbo Cooker (some might call it a convection oven). Our van only has a grill and I would dearly like to once in a while make a roast or pie or even a cake!!! I am put off by the size of the turbo cooker and have been looking at a go...

Does anyone have any thoughts, comments, advice on folding bicycles? Don't want to go to the expense of putting a tow bar and bike rack on Matilda and anyway, it strikes me as not being very secure.

Here goes - yeh I KNOW IT IS SATURDAY THANX DOUG! After being married for 36 years, I took a careful look at my wife yesterday (our 36th anniversary) and said: "Honey, 35 years ago we had a cheap flat, a cheap car, slept on a sofa bed and watched a 10-inch black and white TV, but I got to sleep every night...

I've been looking into "RETIREMENT VILLAGES"... What an absolute minefield....The rip offs are unbelievable, one place I tactfully enquired as to what happened to the upfront money to purchase a "Villa" "Oh we consider that a donation" JFC a $400,000 "...

who's going where, and why isnt anybody telling anybody where they are going, I understood this to be a peoples forum as for me & the dragon, we are off to the grampians through the otways and home via the great ocean road and mount gambier. just a short one this time ( two weeks ) -- Edited by dave06 at...

I need some advice. Due to an accident years ago, hubby has limited vision out of his right eye which poses some problems when parking the van. We are in the process of having the towbar and wiring done on our new vehicle and have asked the installer for advice but this has been vague in the extreme! Wha...

has anyone installed or had a webasto diesel heater installed in a motorhome. if self install, was it easy, if paid install, how much, I have seen quotations of $2,000 and up which seems extraordinary to me

I saw an ad for a fuel conditioner. Before you buy, check here http://www.csicop.org/si/9801/powell.html Cheers John Cook

HI everyone hope you all have a happy new year . Could anyone let me know if sunland caravans cover are worth putting on a caravan brickies

My wife and I are one of the many oldies travelling with a pet. I have microchipped my dog but because we are of no fixed address it seems silly to register the dog at any particular council,is it not possible that by being chipped our pets are deemed registered in which ever area we are currently visiting...

So all you Grey Nomads out there with Dogs. Do they need grooming of not. I need to know. I need to know wether it would ne worthwhile towing my trailer which is fully equiped to groom, bath or clip your dog or not. We intend to travel with or without the dog grooming trailer. I look forward to your coments. C...

Heading west. Leaving Adelaide for Eucla, 3am start, car only, hopefully reach Eucla before dark. Prebooked motel, next day to Kalgoorlie,the following day to Perth. Two driving, does it sound practical, any advice appreciated. Should we bypass Kalgoorlie, for the park want's upfront payment....

Just wondering if anyone has been through the gramps since she caught alight, have the wildlife came back yet, are the trees refoliated or is it still burnt and barren and bereft of life -- Edited by dave06 at 12:32, 2008-07-04