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Just a quick question,we have put our van in storage,it as 480watts of solar on the roof and 2 X 120 amphr batteries.Do I just leave the batteries ticking over or should I leave say the radio on all the time .Thanks in advance Safe travels everyone Trevor

Hi all, Just like to ask all you learned travelers with some better knowledge on travel months, so there are three of us all retired each with our own vans, we are trying to make arrangements to start a trip over to W.A. So, whats the best time weather wise to leave Sunshine Coast, make our way to Mt Isa &...

We are going on a trip next year and heard of the Min Min lights around Boulia, has anyone seen them. And what is it all about. Thanks

Scottish must be in competition with the Irish.........

This seems to be doing the rounds on Social Media at the moment. I love a Sunburnt Country I love a Sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains. But Ive gotta tell ya mate, I like it better when it rains.The countryside is dying and theres just no end in sight, and just to rub salt in the wounds,The...

The Lone Ranger and Tonto walked into a saloon and sat down to drink a beer. After a few minutes, a big tall cowboy walked in and said "Who owns the big white horse outside?" The Lone Ranger stood up, hitched his gun belt, and said, "I do, Why?" The cowboy looked at the Lone Ranger and said, "I just thought yo...

will outdo most men........

HI all, I am considering buying a Prado to tow my camper trailer and was wanting to avoid buying a model fitted with a diesel particulate filter, as I live on a small island, so can't carry out the required burn off. So does anyone know which year that Toyota introduced these filters. I've tried searchin...

It shows how the world is changing very rapidly around us good or bad the old days are now memories but you cant help but think a lot of the (our) older attitudes, values and behaviours were more better than todays mad scramble to nowhere. An Interesting Read!!!!!! Stay with this --- the answer is at the...

Afternoon all, got a bit of a problem with my van..... When out bush with my boy, I turned on my water pump to use the water from the tanks. I then heard a pouring water sound, I went outside and I noticed that when the water pump was running it was actually pumping the water out through the water mains inlet a...

Yep, I have no projects labeled as urgent, everything on board is working. Even going to a caravan show today, nothing to buy, just look. I may do some home work on a lithium up-grade to our batteries, but its not urgent. Just serviced the van, here's to another nap!

Well, after today's episode I reckon that I have to be a bit of a goose. For years SWMBO has been complaining about the terrible squeaks that come from the corner steadies as I wind them up or down. They seem particularly noisy as we prepare for an early blast off, no doubt waking up or annoying our neighb...

During my research, (err surfing the net), trying to determine if our grandchildren, were/were not, being manipulated in regards to climate change/global warming I came across this site below, which is a YouTube video eighteen minutes, fifty four seconds long, made in April 2016 https://www.te...

Magnetic Trailer Aligning Kit for Reversing. Great Aid for reversing and hooking up caravans, trailors, and horsefloats etc. Brand New and Unopened. $50.00 Joe

Hi all on this glorious, sunny, Sunday afternoon (well from where I sit anyway!) Is there such a thing as CARAVAN CLUBS in Perth WA? One gets a bit tired of all your old fart friends that you can rarely get off the couch and get moving. If there are such things, like 4 wheel drive clubs but for caravanners, t...

Air pollution is off the chart in Mildura & a few other places. You could cut the air with a knife at our place on Sydney Northern Beaches this morning. https://aqicn.org/map/world/

hi fellow nomands looking to upgrade coaster but unsure about buying one with electric awning are they reliable or pain cheers fellow travellers

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