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Gold Coast to Broome
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Hey Guys, We are a not-so-grey couple who need some real grey advice about our impending trip from the Gold Coast to Broome where we are going to work for about a year. Unfortunately the trip has to occur over a four week period between mid January and mid February. We have a landcruiser (turbo diesel)...
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The young greys
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Hello
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Hi All, after a bad experience at another forum I'm now hoping this one fair's a tad better, a real shame as it was a great little site (spoilt by a minority as usual) never mind I hope as I'm in the right age group the clientell maybe a tad more moderate and understanding (I'm definately grey and a bit of a no...
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NZ Fuel costs
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We are traveling around the south island of New Zealand & the fuel costs are Petrol &1.80 to $2.00 Desiel $ 1.25.so it pays to have a desiel vehicle.
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tiger5
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Wuruma Dam - North of Eidsvold - Midwest Qld - inland from Bundaberg
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Has anyone been here? I understand that it is a free camp on the Wuruma Dam. Management and I are heading off up there, probably for about 10 days during the first part of the school hols. What I really need to know is, do you camp right on the water's edge?. The reason I need to know this is, if we camp on t...
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Posts showing up etc
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Is anyone else beside Sheba and myself having trouble viewing some posts etc without having to refresh all the time? If so could you let Cindy know please. Thanks Vic
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VHW
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Caravan involved in high speed chase in Adelaide
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/11/25/3075821.htm
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petengail
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Birdsville and Little Red
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Hi everyone, well home for 3 days and feet are feeling itchy....after 8 weeks and 13,000 k's the enjoyment of seeing our incredible country remains with incredible memories ingrained for life. Our travels took us from our home on the NSW/Qld border South to Tasmania ( what a beautiful state, and so fr...
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is it a good idea ?
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I have noticed quiet a few vans have names and their uhf channel on the back of the van. Is this a good idea, what channel should you use. Your thoughts please.
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My Post.
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Would some-one please e-mail me a copy of the Photo I posted on [at the moment] page 5 ? I can't see it myself, and can't remember what it was. Thanks, Sheba.
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WHICH CHANNELS;
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There appears to be a little confusion over which uhf channel to use. If you use the group scan button on the radio, select channel 40 for the trucks, press memory, select 18 for the vanners, press mem again, then select the channel you want to use as priority,18 or 40, then press scan, this will scan the...
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Happy hour
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Around camp grounds and caravan parks, we see groups of people gather for a few drinks in the evenings, theres conversation and laughter. I often wonder if they all knew each other before they started travelling. It seems such a big part of travelling, to have a drink after the heat of the day. Yet...
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LandRover Discovery or Toyota Landcruiser?
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After 5 months on the road again this year, we have decided that an update of the van is needed. We are looking at about 20', with ensuite. We therefore need to upgrade our Territory to something stronger. We have been investigating 'The Discovery' or "The Landcruiser'. Second hand. Cruiser pro...
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avoid spuds!
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Hi everyone, during our recent trip from Port Augusta to The Painted Desert in South Australia we had the misfortune to be conned by Spuds roadhouse advertising "last fuel for 100k", assuming that the price could only be the same or dearer we filled up only to discover later down the track t...
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tyre pressure
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What pressure are we all running in our van tyres. I took off an old set of cross ply tyres today and update to radial light truck tyres and was surprised at the pressure needed to make them look inflated cheers blaze ps have a 16 foot van, single axle
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blaze
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Its all about to happen
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Well not much to go in van prep, new water tanks to be fitted & fit 4 cubboard doors. Now the good bits My baby (youngest daughter) has arrived home today from Perth, I get to give her away on december 11, first of mine to marry. Boxing day we head off with our family and friend group (about 50 people) for...
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Reversing cameras
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Hullo wise and experienced travellers! I think I'll buy Mr D. a reversing camera for Christmas... two actually, so he can put one on the back of the van too. Is there any particular brand that is better than others? Or any that are duds?
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Wahoo - veteran member
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Woohoo - just tagged as a "veteran member" - don't know quite how or why - but quite pleased with it anyway.
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naming the van
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hi one and all, how many of you great travellers have given your van/camper a name. we've had our dear old jacoy dove for a few years lived in her for over 12 months and are taking of again next year for a couple of years. i tried several names but none have stuck. there must be a list somewhere. i want to write...
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Lotus and Trackvans
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We recently took our van to the workshop for a minor job, and noticed there were six Trackvans and Lotus sprints, with the entire front of the vans being replaced. Apparently the cladding has not been sealed correctly and water gets in and the frames had rotted. So if your Lotus van has been built in the l...
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THE VOICE;
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Well, who seen the news tonight? They showed Karen, the voice behind the prompts on the Garmin GPS. & that is her name, aussie as well.
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