Monday, Feb 09, 2004 at 17:45
Hi Wayne
Our camper is a Trayon Seeker with which we are very happy indeed with. You can view it at www.trayon.com It is fully fitted out and it takes us 2 minutes to set up and pack up. Whilst it has the ability of being removed and left on legs, we have never bothered as we find it is quicker and easier to pack it up and take it with us and it goes over all terrain no matter how bad. (The bed stays made up too).
At this stage in our travelling life, we can only get away on annual leave (sometimes managing 6 week stretches) and cannot afford the time to spend too long in any one place. Starting in May though, I have 4 months leave of absence & hubby has long service leave plus accumulated annual leave. We plan on leaving Tassie, heading for
Cameron Corner (again), down Strezlecki & up the Bridsville Track to cross the Simpson again (via WAA Line this time) and back to Alice (this will be our 5th visit here). From there it will be meeting up with friends to travel out past Ayers
Rock to do the Old Abondoned Gunbarrel to
Wiluna and down to Kalgoorlie, leaving our 1st lot of friends and to meet other friends who are doing the
Canning Stock Route with us. Will continue through the
Kimberley to finish off seeing what we haven't seen before (we beleive in always leaving something for the next time to see) before continuing right across the top end and up to
Cape York before meandering our way back
home via the east coast. It is the trip I have been waiting for all my life. All other trips have been just to see what areas we liked (we have found we love the desert and the outback)and for the experience for doing it all. Of course it took us many years planning and saving to get ourselves set up for it in the first place and with our 2002 4.2 TD ST Patrol and Seeker camper, we think we have the perfect set up to suit this type of travelling for now (and there is no towing of anything). Of course there are always different horses for different courses, but this is what suits us. One day, when we can perhaps retire and can spend more time away then our needs may change. Our previous vehcile was a 1988 DX Patrol flat tray (petrol & gas) plus an extremely heavy, old Freeway pop top camper. Our old Patrol never let us down (and we swore we would never have anything else) and even with the old camper, we found we just couldn't break it. Having a deisel is just heaven though.
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