Hi fellow GNs, we have been absent from the forum for a while but now with our new rig and tug we have hit the roads and highways.
Thanks for all your suggestions and feedback over the preceeding months which helped us get on the road and we're loving it.
We are the new Newbees having taking to the livestyle with no prior experience, our first van and first 4 X 4.
The five weeks since we picked up our new wheels has been a great learning experience, but still enjoyable.
We have learned to set up the van with all the little bits and pieces that make life on the road easier. We have had a wide range of driving conditions from highway to country roads, from sunshine to thunder storms, from calm weather to blowing a gale. We have driven in towns during peak hour and in Sydney traffic.
Our greatest ordeal so far was to turn up a wrong road, which was narrow and the road base a mixture of gravel and dirt, it was hardly wide enough for the van to pass withour brushing the bush. A few kilometres down the road it was looking worse, so after stopping my wife took a short walk and came back with the news turn around here. Lucky there was a small clearing in the bush and I was able to jack knife the van up a small bank in 4 X 4 low range after removing the WDH, then jack knifed back in the opposite direction and we were off again, Sure glad we did that Tow-Ed course a few days earlier.
Anyway time for the reveal, we bought a Ford Ranger Wildtrak auto and a 22" Concept Ascot SX, combined length off both is about 15m.
Hope to see you on the road or in a park soon. We hope we have qualified and can step up from being a Newbie.
that looks like a great rig, I am sure you will be comfortable on the road.
We are in a similar boat, although I have been hanging around the forum making a nuisance of mysef for about a year, we actually expect to get our hands on our van in the next couple of weeks, so then it will be time to do the tow ed course, and start doing short trips.
I hope you have a great time on your travels, and you never know when we might come across each other on the road.
