Off on a cruise to New Guinea & nearby islands on 22/1. My prize for enduring 20 chemo sessions. Then watch this space,. I think we are going to put the brakes on & stop somewhere permanently. We will have been "on the road" 23 years next Feb. So we did give it a good go. Cheers Alice
From WA to Mannum for a Murray River houseboat 7 day trip .Home via Eyre Penninsular then north for the winter .Along with our 6 weekly trips with the caravan club .Thats Plan A at this precise moment.
Of three major trips this year, they all covered the places we intended to visit (plus more) but definitely not as per plan A (location, number of days per place, or total trip days). Also stopped short in two cases and did a day trip to the furtherest destination (eg Day trip to Ceduna from Streaky bay). Other than being away over winter (effectively term 3), no idea where we are going.
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IN 5 days time ,will be heading from our home (Malanda ) on the Atherton Tablelands ,to visit our relos in Newcastle nsw & Canberra Via the inland route Charters Towers ,Roma ,Emerald ,Cuppla days at Carnarvon Gorge . In june of next year ,we will be putting our 4wd on a cargo ship and head off to cape york penninsular ,Seisia ,Bamaga ,over to Thursday Island ,4-5 days then drive back home ,down the cape.. On the trip to visit relos in NSW expect to be away 5-6 weeks.
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Atherton tableland Nth Queensland. Currently have a Crusader Manhatton ,But in april 2017 will be trading it in on a Retreat Brampton.
2017 will see me head back to Sapphire to finish renovating Primrose my caravan.
After a rest up and make my fortune I hope to do the lap again
Time might only permit half a lap going down the middle from Threeways.
That should fill in the year nicely.
Ahhhhhhhh 2017.......another year closer to retirement ..........another year of planning our caravan and tug purchase.........a big year just the same..........and important coz the house will be paid off early 17 and we can do some serious saving for those two essential items we need........
BRING IT ON
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Hi heyjim, we r going to the man from snowy river festival in victoria and the melbourne comedy festival and gotta get to greens lake. Stuck in port at the moment checking solar and car service. Then going to grafton jacaranda festival if everything comes together
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NSW coast for all of January. 3 months in France and England, May to mid July then Queensland until Vic warms up. We will finish off 2016 in the Barossa, Flinders Ranges, York Peninsular and The Coorong from November 14 to early December.. Gee retirement can be tiring.
I will be retiring ,finish work on the 21st Dec and my last gig with the band on new year's eve then off to Emerald for about 6 weeks .Yipeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
I will be retiring ,finish work on the 21st Dec and my last gig with the band on new year's eve then off to Emerald for about 6 weeks .Yipeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
After 2 months in hospital and 8 months on chemo the wife and I are gunna chuck it all in about next april and follow the front of the car for 9, 10, months or so. Recon I / we have earnt it. Retirement 2 years early. Currently in mt gambier freezing our butts off.
Then heading north towards Cairns, by mid June, flight from Cairns to Indonesia (Not Bali) for a wedding, return July, pick up van/car and continue up to the cape, return before the wet!
Mr D then wants to go to Darwin, I am undecided.....
No plans.....
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DUNMOWIN is no longer on the road and still DUNMOWIN!
we are currently visiting our son and family in Shepparton. There are about 200 plus vans at the showgrounds for a rally. We are heading to Bendigo Ballarat and Great Ocean Road then back along the Murray to Shepparton.
Plans - what plans. Last month we were supposed to have headed through NSW then over to Adelaide to catch up with hubby's family and then have a look around York Peninsula and return through NSW again to home BUT tyre and motor problems scuttled that idea. Probably a good thing with the weather the way it was over that way. So a few short "local" trips between now and Easter 2017 then south to Adelaide for before mentioned family catch up then up through the middle to Alice Springs and a visit to my brother and would like to go to Darwin as haven't been up that way since 1978 then quick trip down through Qld to home as want to be home for Dad's 90th birthday in August. If it works out like that, great, but if not, so be it.
I'll probably see in the new year somewhere in western NSW, heading south to Mildura and then into SA. General direction from there will be west with no doubt some detours to the north and south, and then across the Nullabor to WA. From there, who knows ... too far into the future to worry about.
Cheers, Joe
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Hino Rainbow motorhome conversion towing a Daihatsu Terios
Wedding over . Hunter valley is a top place for a wedding .. Kandos hot rod association event in new year . The heading as slow as possible up nsw / Queensland from Feb - March .. Like to keep in warm weather these days . End of 2017? Maybe take family on trip around South Island . May even stretch to Christmas .our daughter inlaws sister is building a house there .maybe a surprise ?
End of april 2017 heading down the coast of vic towards south Australia spend a week at coastal towns southend beachport etc free camping when possible then head towards port augusta and what I realy consider to be the start of our big trip up to Darwin .. have spent hours researching all the good stops on the stuart .. then head from Darwin to jabiru on the arnham hwy .. back down to tennant creek heading towards mt isa then Townsville up to cairns before heading back down the east coast back to Melbourne phewwwwww already getting tired !!!!
Anyway that's the plan . oh this is our first big trip over 3.. 4 months .
Went from WA to Tamworth and return to home base early in the year
All things being equal, hope to go to Darwin, and return to home base in our winter Not made up my mind if I return home through WA, or travel to Adelaide, and then back to WA, as there is less than 1,000 K,s difference
After Christmas go to Adelaide for New Year, then hopefully Tamworth again
Unfortunately I am only a part time traveller, but do wish that I was on the road full time
Normally we'd be on the road by mid March, but all 3 of us have some medical issues to tend to. If all goes well we'll start to head north by mid may. The plan is/was to head up through Qld then back down through the centre & back home. Nambucca is starting to get cold, so we really want to be heading north ASAP.
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Steve, Di & Ziggy We named our Motorhome "Roadworx" because on the road works "On The Road Again" Ford Transit with 302 Windsor V8 conversion, C4 Auto, 9 Inch Ford Diff All Lighting L.E.D., 260 Amp/h AGM, 530 Watt Solar + Kipor Backup Gen.
Just had a few days away. Toowoomba, Dalby, Westmar (good free camp with flushing toilets and hot shower), St. George - lovely and green out there at the moment, Nindigully Pub, down to Mungindi across to Talwood (all bitumen now, some quite new) to Goondiwindi, Texas, Inglewood, Millmerran, then home. Good trip. Have a drip under the van. Hopefully only radiator hose - anyway will get it seen to as we hope to do the trip I mentioned earlier starting in 5 weeks. A few health issues with Dad and son at the moment though.
Anyway, as so many have said they're going up/down the center over the next few months maybe we'll see each other. We have a Grey Nomads and a CMCA sticker on our back window.
Cheers Gaylene.
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