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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…
Macca’s Useless Info: Hi-viz vest? Be irresponsible not to
I was recently challenged by a viewer who had witnessed me deflating a tyre on telly with my thongs on. I’ll complete telling you about the confrontation after I set the scene of my offence… It was a beautiful spring…
Macca’s Useless Info: We’ve put up fences too big to lean over and ask a mate for advice
When I was growing up my dad had a broad range of mates when it came to expertise. He had mates who were chippies, mates who were sparkies, mates who were accountants; a mate for pretty much everything. I’ve set…
MACCA’s Useless Information
Whatever it is, is up to you What is the outback? It would seem that any country town more than a few hundred kilometres from the coast has declared itself “the gateway to the outback”, but I haven’t been able…
MACCA’s Useless Information
Everything I pick up today seems to have a ‘best before’ date on it and some of them just seem to make my head so empty that my eyeballs rattle inside it. I know I’m a simple man who is…
MACCA’s Useless Information
Them’s Fighting Words. Apparently. I walked into an office recently and greeted a group of women sitting at a table with a bright and cheery “morning ladies”. This greeting, which is my go-to hello for a huddle of the fairer…
MACCA’s Useless Information
A brewing concern The traveller in Australia today has a broad range of accommodation options. Everything from swags to 5-star resorts, and they all have their place. I don’t think we should ever pigeon hole ourselves to one style of…
