Thread: First time for everything

Originally Posted by babarnes@bigpon

PS With a motor home and the likes how do you travel around during the day or do you need to take extra transport towed behind?

It takes us just on 10 mins to pack and go in a motorhome to see the sights.

The advantage is that you have your rest area, tea room, cafe, toilets and dining room with you the whole time.

There are a lot that have a vehicle with them but in 6 months around Australia we hired one if we needed it,

Hi All

I have owned two caravans, older ones, I have owned a full size 16ft caravan and a Jayco Dove wind up camper. Although it didn't really stress me out, the full size van required a fair amount of concentration, not only of what I was doing, but trying to keep other road users happy as well.

The Dove was a much better rig, the car only felt it was there on hills, and honestly felt like a normal trailer on the back. I sold this camper about 7-8 months ago, with the thought of buying something the same, but a bit newer and neater, I am regretting the sale now and have done for a little while now.

Maybe consider one of the wind up camper or as suggested earlier, a camper trailer, I think they are far better in terms of towing, storage (of said van), vision, parking (I'm talking about in a town to go shopping etc..)

I am a truck driver (bet you never saw that coming) and reckon caravaning or camping is a great way to spend time with the family, friends and see new places. So, chose a rig that suits your experience and needs, a camper trailer or wind up is my weapon of choice.

Regards

Matt

We have done heaps of travel over many years, and I reckon Munrubin is on the money. A self contained unit with ablutions, can save five nights a week accomodation by camping in parking bays and such for a sleep over. You then go into an expensive Cara Park twice a week to do the laundry and empty sullage tanks, and refill your water tanks. The parking bays are usually goods places for a camp fire and meeting like minded people. We are talking about living on the road for extended periods here, and tents are the pits after about four nights, even if you can stand up in them. They get real hot real qhick and vice versa, and extreme weather can make it really nasty. I can remember a tent roof gathering about sixty litres of rain water in a few minutes on a beach near Bundaberg, and we had to push it off from inside, and then collapse the tent, and sit up all night in the car.