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rredbeak


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of all the caravan pics ive posted of OUR van no one has commented on the fact the roof is ALWAYS [near always] Down.

 

Frankly, Heidi & i are small and can easily walk freely inside.If its a week stay we might then pop it.

cheers Rod



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We are shortars...es too.............

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no issues being short,just as long as our legs reach the ground otherwise we'd be in deep ....

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Not being critical, but pics are too small to get a good look.

Maybe 'attach image(s)' could work better.



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rredbeak, why is your van top always down ? biggrin



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Wanderlust wrote:

Not being critical, but pics are too small to get a good look.

Maybe 'attach image(s)' could work better.

 those small pics are only part of the signature, I think rredbeak was saying about ALL the pics he posted of his van in other topic's



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rredbeak


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ya,thats it

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heres a better shot Wunderlust http://thegreynomads.activeboard.com/t46096116/freecamping-the-nullabor/

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I believe it is possible to cause problems using the cooktop with the roof down!

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We would leave ours down if we were just pulling up for lunch or a cuppa, but always up at night............

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The only time we had ours down at night was during a storm. Its fairly air-tight with the lid down, wouldnt use the gas stove without the door open.

Actually I thought the middle photo in your sig looked like the lid is up Rredbeak.

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when the lids down we only cook with the microwave,or very rarley with a back gas burner with the overhead withdrawal fans going and yes always well ventilated.

its odd but the 3 sig pics are left is Pt Lowly eyre penn ,nth of Whyalla and there for a week [lid down]. Middle is 60 west of Mt Isa Freecamp with the ww2 memorial and a week there too but this time with the lid up. must have been hot id say.

i do recall pt lowly was very gusty and freezing at times.

when it comes to laziness i take first prize,trust me

 

on the right is a freecamp directly above the SA bight cliffs for a week,lid down



-- Edited by rredbeak on Thursday 10th of November 2011 06:23:55 PM

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I'm about to go on my first trip in Lulu but I'll be putting up the lid. I can walk in their okay, but I hit my head on the overhead light! disbelief



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Beth,
im willing to bet after a few times you arrive worn out you'll soon get out of popping the top. Especially if youre leaving in the morning.

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Maate we are all too polite to make comments about your poptop not popping - all of us here are very well mannered here and never make personal comments.

And I am still getting treatment for my efforts at poptopping but have fixed the problem with mechanical intervention. And there is no way any of the others will make any snide asides about this statement (I hope).

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Thank God all of those those short bunks suit someone, as well as that sloping Falcon roof line.

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Beth ..

I had a Poptop for a while, but I used ta 'sleep walk'  ..

Took a while but I found out 'cause I was loosin' my hair .. well .. you seen the results eh ?

I hadda get sumfin' a little taller so I changed it all.

Jon



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biggrin biggrin biggrin @ Jon...



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rredbeak


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now,look at all the energy you save by not popping the top...

you could use that energy for something else........im so old now ive forgotten "What Else" was but im sure theres something

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rredbeak wrote:

now,look at all the energy you save by not popping the top...

you could use that energy for something else........im so old now ive forgotten "What Else" was but im sure theres something

 It's a bugga when you get old, ain't it biggrin



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oh yea thats true.
theres a tablet to fix each of those issues but i forget which ones for what.like rolling the dice really



-- Edited by rredbeak on Friday 11th of November 2011 03:46:30 PM

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rredbeak wrote:

oh yea thats true.
theres a tablet to fix each of those issues but i forget which ones for what.like rolling the dice really



-- Edited by rredbeak on Friday 11th of November 2011 03:46:30 PM

 What I would like to know is  "Who tells these different tablets where to go and what to do?" I keep forgetting to take some of mine and usually remember when it is too inconvenient to do anything about it.  Thank God for the wife.  Have you taken your pill and did you do so and it sounds a lot like she is nagging but I would be lost without her.



-- Edited by JRH on Friday 11th of November 2011 03:56:28 PM

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Heidi & i both have our different medications so we take them together so she keeps an eye on me. Altho i am s;lightly forgetting things..

Mostly What day is it...

Freecamping is kewl so days dont really matter anyway

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Unless we only stopping to have a cuppa its down but always up as we are tall and hit our heads on the lights, and Down if its a storm at night

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looks like im outvoted several to one lol.

Im sticking with laziness... it works for me,tried n tested

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I can walk in mine comfortably with top down, have slept with it down, but not cooked in there. But then I too have ducks disease!

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ducks disease? this'll be good...

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all duck's have short leg's, I always wonder how they manage to reach the bottom of some pond's biggrin



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thats different,rofl

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_wombat_ wrote:

all duck's have short leg's, I always wonder how they manage to reach the bottom of some pond's biggrin

 They use stilts when they have to.



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