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Received a last minute invite to go down to Waroona Dam for the weekend. I ‘suspect’ it might have been because I was the chauffeur, but I prefer to think it’s because I’m such good company! Departing Saturday morning was … Continue reading →

It has been a while between trips and I was getting real itchy. Coupled with some very busy weeks between flying home at short notice plus work and I needed to get away. Trouble is I’m a V8 Supercar tragic, … Continue reading →

I’m actually late typing this trip report up as we did the trip a few weeks ago now. However in my defence there has been 2 Grand Finals, Bathurst and a trip home to Tassie inbetween…… It was Friday evening … Continue reading →

1/2 a day at work and it was time to get away and wind down from it all. We departed Perth and headed Toodyay Rd, turning left onto O’Brien Rd. I’d been wanting for quite a long time to visit … Continue reading →

Up and away at 7am – mmmmmm not sure this is the way a Sunday is meant to start out. However just under 2 hours later and the effort was well worth it. I’ve been over here for quite a … Continue reading →

Last minute discussion goes something like this. Pilchy – what time do you finish work? Me – what time do I need to finish work??? So I finished work when I needed too (lunch time) and we took the old … Continue reading →

I’m gonna call this the Gnomesville trip, but reality is that’s where we finished. I was fortunate enough to scam the passenger seat in Doc’s Patrol for a run down south of Perth today. We departed at around 0700h and … Continue reading →

I was fortunate enough to get an invite to join Doc (Overlander forum) on a run out to Chooka for an extended weekend. We departed Perth a tad after 6pm on Thursday evening and headed east in his dual cab … Continue reading →

I was fortunate to get an invite to the Barbagallo Raceway as part of the pit crew for Craig Bradtke and Grant Johnson. This was for the ‘All historic race & regularity meeting.’ I haven’t had anything to do with … Continue reading →

I was fortunate to receive an invitation to join P7 Offroad for a weekend at LCMP approximately 2 hours out of Brisbane. I finished work on Friday arvo and managed to get home and back to the airport in time … Continue reading →

I got the opportunity to get away again. This time it was to join up with a mate (and missus) from the Overlander forum. It’s dad’s last weekend down here so I thought I better drag the old bugger along … Continue reading →

Again in line with trying to show dad around, we did a day run from home up through Liffey, Great Lake, Arthur Lake, Poatina and back home. There is a lot of info on previous trip reports so I will … Continue reading →

It’s been a while since we’ve been able to get away. With Christmas and continuous work it certainly has been busy. We’ve been fortunate enough to have dad over here for a few weeks, so we are trying to show … Continue reading →

I’ll let the pictures tell the story, but in short I had a very enjoyable 2 weeks doing what I love most. And doing it in Tassie with the fantastic scenery is just icing on the cake!!! Edit – the … Continue reading →

The moons aligned and Michelle and I both had a day together. We’ve had a rough trot of late losing our little puppy a few days ago so it was a good opportunity to get the family out of the … Continue reading →

I got an invitation from Ian (GU4500 – Overlander forum) to join him just south of Osterley to get some firewood. As he was spending a few night down there with his family it was to be a day run … Continue reading →

The weather report was for snow down to 400 metres. When we said goodbye to the kids (they were going to school), the hills were all covered so the itch got a tad too big for me. If you contemplate … Continue reading →

A late decision was made to do a run up the hill this morning, with no other plan but to drive in that direction. I made my way across to Meander where I picked up the father in law, and … Continue reading →

I was getting bored again and Mitch had to help her sister out, so I decided to pack the kids up and go for a wander. I tried to stick to areas we haven’t been before, but inevitably we travelled … Continue reading →

Well I lasted 4 days before I headed up the hill. Was a Sunday morning and the itch got too much for me. In short I took the father in-law and the 2 eldest up with me, and we took … Continue reading →

Well the day of the big trip came around quicker than expected as per normal – you always plan at a date then there’s the 20 million jobs left at the last minute 🙂 We departed Townsville and headed south. … Continue reading →

We had a choice of destinations for this years ANZAC Day commemorations and decided that Winton would be a good location – far enough away to be worth the trip. We departed the day before and arrived at approximately midday, … Continue reading →

We managed to slip away just before lunch today. In short we needed a break from home and the short plan was to just head north and have some lunch. In the past we’ve been able to visit some great … Continue reading →

Well I had the opportunity to go with work out to Chillagoe for a few days. We were doing a heavy rigid truck course with trailer and this was to be the final week basically. Having not visited the place … Continue reading →

We were lucky to be invited to join the Far North Queensland (FNQ) members of MySwag (www.myswag.org) on a trip to Cowley Beach. For those that aren’t aware, MySwag is a forum dedicated to camper trailers which has invaluable information … Continue reading →

With work pretty much upon me for another year, I wanted to get out for a day trip to just enjoy ourselves for a few hours. I had worked out that a run up west of Innisfail (far north QLD) … Continue reading →

I had to do a flying trip down to Brisbane to pick up a pop-up camper for a mate who is overseas at the moment. With being on call for work, we decided to head of on Friday and do … Continue reading →

I’d had enough of work and setting up house, so the fridge and recovery gear were thrown into the Prado and we headed north out of Townsville. About 60km’s out of town we turned inland heading towards Paluma. It isn’t … Continue reading →

Friday Well we departed Albury at 0800h and hit the road. In short it was a boring painful drive made worse by some rain and incompetent drivers on the freeway between Sydney and Newcastle. Arriving at Dungog just before 1800h … Continue reading →