The Legal Way to Boost Your Mobile Signal When Travelling
An outback test of the Cel-fi GO that’s currently a unique device in Australia What have all the following got in common? A family leaving the car on the Fraser Island beach, all running up to the highest point of…
Lemon Veal
A classic Italian dish simplified for off-road touring Ingredients 4 thinly-sliced veal escallops ½ cup lemon juice 1 cup beef stock ½ garlic clove – crushed Olive oil Splash of cream (or evaporated milk) Green beans, carrots (cut into sticks)…
Letters to the Editor – Coming up short, metal-eating bacteria and Landcruiser batteries.
In this month’s letters to the editor, or in this case, the acting editor, one eagle-eyed reader spotted a slip up we made with some measurements. Another had an interesting question about the Swift Hot Water System and the third…
How to lift 1000kg with one arm
This jack could be your new best mate… You could easily say “move over Arnold Schwarzenegger”when the Trail-A-Mate is around. This jack is based on the principles of a hydraulic bottle jack, but that’s where any similarities end, because it…
Like a Solar Eclipse, The Aor Eclipse will Make you Stop and Look
But is an outdoor shower worth the extra room inside? Australian Off Road (AOR) is a company that has always moved with the times, continually updating its line of hybrid campers. This provides consumers with products to suit their changing…
Lithgow: If you only stop at Maccas, mate, it’s a crime!
Lithgow is marked by many travellers as a pit stop in either direction over the Blue Mountains. Pull in with the RV and see what you’ve been missing Certainly, on the Sydney side, I reckon thousands of people think the…
Lithium batteries big bucks, but are they worth it?
Weighing up the pros and cons of the technological new kid on the block. Every now and then, there comes along a new technology in the RV industry that has the potential to really shake things up. More often than…
Looking for an Escape Van for the Family?
Regardless of which theme fits your family dynamics best, this van can certainly help with accommodating up to four kids for an adventure! One of the greatest pleasures in my life has been travelling with my three cherubs around this…
Long-term Test Isuzu MU-X
Along with our mates at Unsealed 4X4 magazine, Isuzu has been generous enough to lend us an MU-X for a long-term test. The MU-X follows the current trend of basing family wagons on ute chassis and then appointing them to…
Locked up in a Lakeside and lovin’ it
Offering great usable space for you and your gear, the Lakeside Eppalock is a curiously-named caravan you should investigate. In case, like I was, you were wondering about the name Eppalock, it’s a lake. The Lakeside range is made for…
Living In The Passed
Overtaking is not an exercise in proving your superiority as a driver, nor is being overtaken a threat to your pride. Last month we showed you what can happen with caravan sway – and it wasn’t pretty. Here’s the absolute…
Macca: It’s time for a status update!
Everywhere I go now people tell me how busy they are. Our standard conditioned greeting of “how ya goin’?” used to bring a response of anything from “good” to “bad” to things that made you wish you never asked, but…
Macca’s Useless Info: Don’t get me fired up
I have recently had a bit of a lifestyle change; you hear of the tree change and the sea change, but I’ve had the opposite. You see, my minister for war and finance, my significant other, she-who-must-be-obeyed, took on a…
Macca’s useless info: From savage to sophisticated
For whatever reason, it’s always the blokes that take up camping first. Maybe it’s because it served as an acceptable reason to disappear for a few days with your mates as a teenager. “Hey Mum, I’m just going camping with…
