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Submitted: Sunday, Apr 01, 2007 at 09:29

Member - vivien C (VIC)

I should be doing housework or out in the garden, and yet here I am sitting transfixed in front of the computer reading the forum!!

I am in awe of the many intrepid travellers whose trips I read about here. So far we've done what many of my friends call outback, off the beaten track, and in the middle of nowhere trips but we pale into insignificance when compared to so many of you on exploroz!

In my imagination I head out on all these tracks with you and from your descriptions I get a sense of what it's like.

Thank you and keep the trip reports coming.

Viv
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AnswerID: 230967   Submitted: Sunday, Apr 01, 2007 at 10:35

rossbarb replied:

Dear Viv,
I am pleased to hear that there is another woman who does the same, I often think I would get heaps more housework done but who cares apart from my family. I dream of the places we are going to go to when our daughter has finished year 12 and we get her settled into uni.
I tell myself I am doing research for our future holidays\. Barb
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FollowupID: 491833   Submitted: Sunday, Apr 01, 2007 at 10:41

Member - vivien C (VIC) posted:

Barb,

That sounds perfectly reasonable to me. The more research the better!!

Viv
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FollowupID: 492063   Submitted: Monday, Apr 02, 2007 at 08:04

Diver1 posted:

Me too Viv - i drem while i sit here and think it nearly 8am and the kids havent had breaky...still in last nights nappy and are whinging cos they are hungry!!!

Im just dreaming of the trip we now cannt afford to do - the savannah and g.r.r etc....then the simpson.....one day....one day....

keep it up all you travellers!!!

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AnswerID: 230968   Submitted: Sunday, Apr 01, 2007 at 10:43

Members - Chris/Lindsay (VIC) replied:

Dear Viv,
I do exactly the same thing! We have been fortunate enough to have done a lot of travelling over the last 25 years but mostly in school holidays as I teach. My weekend therapy is to dream a few hours away on the forum. It's nice to know that there are other women out there who would rather discuss outback trips than how to clean the house! I hope you get out there again soon.
Cheers, Chris.
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FollowupID: 491843   Submitted: Sunday, Apr 01, 2007 at 11:20

Member - vivien C (VIC) posted:

Dear Chris,

It's been a bit the same for me too. We did a week either side of school holidays plus the holidays, until the kids were in the higher levels of school. From then on we went by ourselves and the longest we've taken is two months. That was great!

I'd much rather be talking trips than doing the housework. That's fairly obvious because I'm still here!! In my defence, I've been doing housework as well, just in short bursts so as not to tire myself out!!

We hope to get to the Warraweena get together in July and then perhaps in Aug/Sept do a Simpson Desert trip. Sort of in the early planning stages now.

All the best

Viv

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FollowupID: 491867   Submitted: Sunday, Apr 01, 2007 at 12:28

Members - Chris/Lindsay (VIC) posted:

Dear Viv, We did the Simpson last September and loved it. We are heading off again in July.Get your desert parks pass a month or so before you go as it does help with info and planning. Chris.
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FollowupID: 491868   Submitted: Sunday, Apr 01, 2007 at 12:31

Member - vivien C (VIC) posted:

Thanks Chris,

Would be interested in a few details of your Simpson trip such as which way you went etc etc. I've got friends who are going on the French Line only but I thought we would try a combination.

Viv
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FollowupID: 491872   Submitted: Sunday, Apr 01, 2007 at 12:49

Members - Chris/Lindsay (VIC) posted:

We went East West and stuck to the French line with a few side trips. Our friends hadn't calculated their fuel accurately so we couldn't do the Rig road as well. Be very careful with fuel as we had to give them a jerry of ours and even our trek leader got into Mt. Dare on the smell of a rag! Purnie Bore was a nice overnighter. Dalhousie has all the facilities but no shade. Our trip was a very hot one. Up around 40 some days. Don't forget your fly net. What else can I help with? Chris.
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AnswerID: 230976   Submitted: Sunday, Apr 01, 2007 at 11:28

Member - Doug T (W.A) replied:

Good Morning Ladies
Very entertaining is it not , good to see your not wasting time either Viv and doing all that plotting and not potting ,


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FollowupID: 491845   Submitted: Sunday, Apr 01, 2007 at 11:35

Member - vivien C (VIC) posted:

Doug,

Just as well plotting requires our sense of adventure and enthusiasm because potting requires water and that's a lot harder to come by at the moment!!

As for your cartoon, it definitely doesn't refer to you, Doug as I'm sure you're a gentleman and never a creep!!

Viv
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FollowupID: 491847   Submitted: Sunday, Apr 01, 2007 at 11:39

Member - Doug T (W.A) posted:

Hmmmm I better put my reading glasses on , I thought that word was CREEDS
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FollowupID: 491849   Submitted: Sunday, Apr 01, 2007 at 11:41

Member - vivien C (VIC) posted:

Doug,

Lol. Maybe it's me needing glasses???? I think it's creeps, no matter...I am still sure you're a gentleman!!

viv
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AnswerID: 230992   Submitted: Sunday, Apr 01, 2007 at 13:35

Motherhen replied:

Yes Viv, i spend most of my time at home on the forum - so much fun and kidnaps me away from housework, ironing, gardening, doing the BAS and tax or what ever I'm meant to do at home. I too read with interest and envy of everyone's outback adventures, and hope to get to just some of those places over the next few years.
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FollowupID: 491883   Submitted: Sunday, Apr 01, 2007 at 13:42

Member - vivien C (VIC) posted:

Hello Motherhen,

What I enjoy about the forum is the chance to read, learn and talk about travelling. There isn't much of an opportunity to do that amongst my friends and acquaintances. They think that actually going on a "driving" holiday is strange enough without going to somewhere they've never heard of!! It gets so frustrating. Then when you come back they look at the photos with their eyes glazed and flip the pages quickly so you know they have been taking nothing in!

It's such a welcome relief to find a group of people who are actually interested in where we've all been and how we did it etc etc.

I hope that this year you get another chance to get "on the road".

Best wishes

Viv
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AnswerID: 230998   Submitted: Sunday, Apr 01, 2007 at 14:53

Member - Bruce and Anne replied:

Hello Ladies Anne here well I go to work (teaching) and leave Bruce at home to do the house work and get everything organised for our next trip away. But most of my thoughts are on retirement in five years when we will be able to do .the big ones.
So far since getting back into camping we have done a trip to Darwin up and back via the Gulf. Looking forward to next Thursday as we are doing a trip out to Eulo then do a drive to Thargomindah and Hungerford.
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FollowupID: 491892   Submitted: Sunday, Apr 01, 2007 at 14:59

Member - vivien C (VIC) posted:

Hello Anne,

Have a good trip out to Eulo etc. Sounds like a really good way to spend the Easter Break.

Also best wishes for all your retirement plans. We've got plans for five years time when we get some long service time due. Maybe it might even be time to think of retirement then! Would like to think so.

I work in a Pharmacy, love my job, but still look forward to the days when we can just head off whenever we like.

Viv
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AnswerID: 231057   Submitted: Sunday, Apr 01, 2007 at 19:10

rossbarb replied:

Wel, there must a few ladies out in forum land who like to check out the forum all the time I got addicted when I was doing mu uni degree externally and evryone thought i was on the computer working on my degree little did they know. My husband thought i was working hard so that we could reire earlier now he thinks we will just travel around and i will teach and support him ha ha ha. All my friends think that i am mad but they do come to me for info and i just come to all of you and then they think i know everything not going to tell them the truth.
we plan to go in about five years too so we will all be out there doing it barb
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AnswerID: 231200   Submitted: Monday, Apr 02, 2007 at 11:32

Member - Beatit (QLD) replied:

Hi Viv,

Well I should be working but am distracted like you by this forum. There is always something useful or funny to read and it provided that life balance that everyone always talks about. At least if you can't get out you can plan and dream of doing so by visiting this site. For me it always seems like a long time between trips (way too long really) and we always have an excuse for not going. This is where EO has been good to me as it fills to time in between quite nicely.

Kind regards

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