And Santa, we are just lovin it  with all the mod cons. But you have hurt my generators feelings . But he will get over it and rev up again tomorrow 

A few times a year I'll take a son/daughter or some grandkids camping with just a tent, billy and some tins of steak and veg and maybe some camp pie. Generally it is where the mobile reception is missing so they then discover the basics. Fire is the all time favourite.

Good Luck.

never leave home    with out your generator

Santa wants to try living on a cattle station where the big generator runs day in day out. Its like living next to a train line. After a few weeks " What train "

Well Santa my days of cooking over an open flame & sleeping in a swag are well & truly behind me. Nowadays I look forward to all my comforts of glamping & the hum of my generator of course.

It's pointless complaining that things aren't the way they used to be. That's life, that's progress. We welcome the advantages so how about we all accept what the world is now and stop whinging that it doesn't suit us. Does anyone really want to turn back the clock? Does anyone really want to be driving on gravel roads, with no communication, with limited medication. Those who do should realize it's up to them to find their little piece of solitude, not up to me to give it to them. That little spot by the creek where we used to escape from it all is now in the middle of town and the creek is now a drain. That's what our society has achieved, that's just the way it is. But that drain now has street lights over it and a 24huor servo next door. It's what we wanted, so don't whinge that it doesn't look like it used to.
Don't expect all vanners to look for some kind of primitive lifestyle. For most these days the van is the opportunity to see parts of the country public transport doesn't service. That doesn't mean going without electricity, or gas, or refrigeration, or communication, or even packaged entertainment. That simply means getting there to be there. Don't anyone dare tell me I'm wrong for choosing to travel comfortably. If I need a generator (I don't need one yet) then I'll carry and use one as I see fit. Why should I swelter or freeze when I could have packaged electricity. If the bloke over the way only has hot beer, I'll offer him a cold one, but if he regards me as some kind of second class citizen because I use a generator to cool my beer then he can find someone else's beer to cry into.
Santa is right that life under canvas isn't what it used to be. Hands up all those grey nomads who want to trudge around Oz with a swag and a billy. Yep I thought so. Who wants to leave the gas at home and light a fire every night to cook tea? Me neither. Very few takers for the simple life. Probably about as many as there were 75 years ago. So who are the hundreds of thousands of travelers who camp around Oz every year, who use gas and electricity? They're the majority, and they'll win by sheer numbers every time.
Stop bashing your gums about generators. They are now a socially and legally acceptable way of supporting our 2017 lifestyle. There's still plenty of space for quiet reflection, but maybe no longer in a popular camping spot.
And if the anti-generator brigade think they're hard done by, consider a bloke I know whose ancestry here goes back some 40,000 years. He thinks he's hard done by too, but he can't turn back the clock either.

Looks like this site is full of gennie freaks  but most of the people out there from what I have observed can manage without the noisey things....

god streuth just because you don't have a gennie does not mean your sleeping in a swag and cooking over an open fire were not doing it tough in our new rig ....

-- Edited by Ron-D on Wednesday 18th of January 2017 04:42:30 PM

We don't need a genny, we can run A/c, coffee maker & frother, induction hotplate, elect kettle, elect toaster from inverter.  (Not all at once though  )

So, yes, we rough it without genny!