Hi all just want to say I am looking forward to get going, purchased the van yesterday pickup tomorrow. So I will hopefully won't be a pest as I need your advice and experiences. My missus and I are looking at travelling the expanse of this big land gradually at first then full time nommading after October.
Gday Roballs1 we welcome you to the forum and I am sure you will always get a number of answers to any question you want to askas our members are always happy to help.
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Life was meant to be enjoyed Australia was meant to be explored
Happily doing both to the Max.
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Welcome the this great Forum and becoming a Grey Nomad. Many of us are permanents as you are thinking of doing - best thing we've ever done (well, almost). We LOVE our gypsie life style. We've been staying with one of our kids for the best few months and leaving in a couple of weeks for about 10 mnths on the road - cant wait to get going. You soon deveop itchy feet as a permanent Nomader.
This site is brilliant for company and advice. Also make sure you get Wikicamps on your pc or tablet (costs about $7 per year) and has a map of Aust showing pretty much all the caravan parks and free camps. The other thing to have is a Camps 8 book. With these two items you'll be set
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Cheers Bruce
The amazing things you see when nomading Australia
I am a rude neanderthal and would like to apologise to those who have welcomed me sorry for not getting back to you thank you all. Allot of travelling since inception 2015 and here we are end of 2017, been tasmania lovely joint but some of those roads winding killers, been to Cooktown and staying at Wonga beach up cairns Daintree area fantastic except for the bllody nuts denting the tug and van Bob the owner gives you doona covers to cover your tug/car. We picked up new van Newage 23' and have gone up the Guts and we are now in Darwin getting some warranty work done been here for 4 months soon moving on to Kunnanura we got signs and we call ourselves Travelling,Trailer, Trash so if you see us give us a hello and i will tell you about our little problems of tug and van.
Gday and welcome to the forum from us we hope youenjoy your time with us, we have spent many holidays at the entrance with the family at Dunleith when the kids were young and many hours in the lakes prawning and then having a feast of fresh cooked prawns, anyway we hope you have a great time out there in the big playground.
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Life was meant to be enjoyed Australia was meant to be explored
Happily doing both to the Max.
Life is like a camera, focus on what's important & you will capture it every Time
Hi all been in Darwin now for 5 and a half months still having work done on the van bit by bit and not having a dealership up here hurts the budget and the travelling bug abit. The Darwin weather is not too good it is starting to rain and when it is in the full season we will be buggered as we have leaks in the van and the annexe, the heat is oppressive being humid every day so until the work is done then we cannot leave. The mob who built this van wants us to pack up and leave and head to Port Hedland 2500 Klms to put it into a dealership, question is who is going to pay for the juice to get there and back to Katherine and with a faulty ESC do not know million dollar question, air condititioner faulty and the van leaks plus other little ****ty problems. Any way come Thursday we will find out what the mob want us to do, we have a lemon folks, 27 issues/ problems.
