Tag The Big Trip
The Big Trip – Touring with a Medical Condition.
Touring around Australia and experiencing everything the Outback has to offer may be relatively easy if you’re young, fit and healthy. But what happens if you’re getting on in years or you have a chronic medical condition? Is it possible…
Product Review – Tilt Fridge Slide Combo from RV Storage Solutions
When it comes to using a portable fridge inside your vehicle, a slide is almost a necessity. The problem is the normal straight slides present a few problems, especially for regular travellers. The Tilt Slide Combo fridge slide from RV…
The Big Trip – Communications – Choosing UHF Radios
If you’re in the market for a UHF radio for your car or a handheld unit, you might think they are all much of a muchness. While that may be true to a certain extent, it’s the various features of…
The Big Trip – Tools to Plan and Navigate
If you’ve made the decision to head off on the big trip, you may want to look at how to plan your trip, decide where to go and how to get there. Fortunately, there are plenty of options available but…
The Big Trip – Deciding what to Pack
When you go away for a brief holiday, knowing what to pack and what to leave behind is not really all that critical, but going away for the big lap or even for a life on the road, that’s a…
The Big Trip – Budget Planning
When you’re planning the big trip, the one question you will have to tackle before you start packing is how are you going to finance your adventure. Setting a budget may seem like a daunting prospect but, in reality, the…
The Big Trip – To sell or not to sell your home
If you’re planning on doing that lap around Australia or something a bit more long term, what will you do with your house? It could be the hardest decision you’ll ever make or, as we found out, the easiest. If…
Cradle Mountain
Somewhere between Nowhere Else & Never NeverWords & images Jan Hawkins Yes… these are villages in Tasmania’s central north, all nestled around Cradle Mountain country. They sit alongside Paradise and The Promised Land where the villages try hard to welcome you,…
The Big Trip – From the centre to the west via the back way
As it’s destined to become a bitumen thoroughfare sometime in the future, you should take the Great Central Road while it’s still a roughly-drawn red line.By Colin Kerr Carved out through sometimes fascinating desert country between Uluru in the Northern…
The Big Trip – Cape York in two weeks
If that wasn’t enough – we borrowed the van too!By Justin Lorrimer For as long as I can remember, I’ve always wanted to travel to Cape York. The journey is surrounded by campfire tails of legendary 4X4 tracks, amazing fishing…
Schooling your kids on the road
Top tips from the pros so you get top marks.By Mandy Farabegoli You’ve made the decision on which schooling method you are going to use (see issue 004 of RV Daily) and now it’s time to actually school your own…