Three weeks till we leave, and it’s a long weekend! Yep only 3 weeks (well 2.5 by the time this is posted)!!! So we grab our last opportunity to go off in the motorhome, prior to it becoming our home for 6 months, and head down into northern NSW! We started by taking a detour in the opposite direction – heading north into Brisbane for the Camping and Caravaning show. Perhaps we’d find a better caravan or something to travel around Aus in….haha. No, we’re happy with our motorhome, so the idea of this visit was to pick up some useful info, and hopefully some items. Turns out anything solar panel or 12V related is much cheaper on ebay…. but we did get a few things – couple of chairs, head torches, leveling ramps – as well as a heap of brochures, particularly about different locations we’ll be traveling to.

After this we headed back down south, to the Mt Cotton waste transfer station (ie. the dump)!! Had to look for some free last minute essential items to kit out and decorate the motorhome with…. nah sorry, meant to say I wanted to drive over their weighbridge to see what we weighed loaded up for a trip! Turns out that with a full load of fuel and water, with the 4 of us, and all our stuff for a long weekend, we had 250kg spare till we reach the GVM (4250kg). Pretty happy with that! Sure we’ll need to throw in a couple bikes, some extra water and food, some extra tools and other things, but it looks like we’ll be a safe and legal weight when heading off around Australia.

Then it was time for some nerves, as Nicole took the drivers seat. Her nerves, not mine that is! 😉 She hadn’t wanted to drive back from the show, through the city, but jumped in at the dump and took us safely from Mt Cotton into NSW for our first night stop-over. Dad, here’s some photographic evidence that wives can drive motorhomes!!! Continue reading →