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Brookie


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Typical TT commercial- promotion of the larger campers which people only keep for a short time if you can judge by the ones for sale on CMCA pages.

We saw two happy families at Honeymoon Pool near Collie WA quite a few years ago and they had Holden Gemini with trailer and Kombi van with trailer-not a camper and they were on their way round with kids and had started in Q'land.
They had really enjoyed their journey.



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We are pensioners and our rig is a 1993 Falcon wagon towing a 1984 Jayco songbird, we have a ball going around the countryside. 

Listen to TT and you cannot enjoy a caravan trip without spending $150,000 or more on a motorhome or 5th wheeler, I am sure it would put quite a few people off from considering the Nomad lifestyle. 

On the other hand it leaves more room for those of us already living the lifestyle.

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Well, it seems I didn't miss too much, watched the wrong show !!!!!! A C A. NSW wasn't on... Ah well we don't have a huge 5th wheeler or a motorhome, (saw this on other comments) we have a 1999 Holden Rodeo and a 1980 Viscount Van, which we get around in and are very happy with. It doesn't matter what you travelling in or towing, it's all in the lifestyle.

We love it !!! cheers Val and Rob

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Hmm, seemed to us to be nothing more than a plug for Winnebargo Motorhomes!!

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JRH


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Pejay wrote:

Hmm, seemed to us to be nothing more than a plug for Winnebargo Motorhomes!!


Dead right there Pejay, in my opinion it gave a totally erroneous view of the grey nomad lifestyle.

 



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Has anybody bothered to reply to this day tonight......Voicing a comment......I asked to tell it as it is.......But I don't believe the programs are interested in truth.....

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Of course they aren't Jimmy, there's no money to be made in telling the truth

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Pejay wrote:

Hmm, seemed to us to be nothing more than a plug for Winnebargo Motorhomes!!



Of course it was, as I implied in my earlier post that's what commercial television is all about.  At least it didn't tear us apart with a typical media beat-up!

We know what we're all about so who cares, let's move on.


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A problem with shows of this kind, and indeed many of the poorly constructed and shallow material that passes for 'content', is that many people will take it all on board and believe every word.
Much as they do with the propaganda that they call political comment in the "news" papers.
People are far too ingenuous and gullible, in the main.
But mentally lazy, mostly.

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