Travel good luck charm/token

Top level "roadside assist" card with RACV....because you never know!.

Cheers


Mick

Fuel filter as you are bound to need it when most unexpected

Alan

Hi Greg & Dianne
Over 20 years ago at our first Alice Springs Masters Games we, The Woods Point Wood Ducks, had a small fluffy yellow duck mascot.
It has been in my 4WDs ever since then and sits between the rear view mirror and the windscreen, bum facing the oncoming traffic.
The Wood Ducks still attend these games. They are great fun!

A couple of sand filled camels on the dashboard...

Always had them there, but not even sure why, probably a good idea at the time, now it wouldn't be cricket without them!

Cheers, Baz - The Landy

I have never had any issues or problems when I go on trips with a good stock of beer in the fridge, so that'll do me for a good luck charm :D

My travel 'charm' is my wife of nearly 43 years & why....well she is the financial advisor & the board of control in one....& other things as well !!
Cheers
Batsy

A Victorinox Swiss Army knife is my travel charm. It's always there for fall-back support when a sharp knife can't be found - or a pair of pliers or scissors is needed - or even a pair of tweezers to pull out a prickle, or an embedded piece of metal or wood.

Never needed a medallion or a lucky rabbits foot - superstition never held any sway in our family.
Mind you, I avoid walking under ladders, I'm always alert to black cats crossing my path - and I wouldn't have a numberplate that adds up to 8, under any circumstances! [;-)

Cheers, Ron.

From left to right.
Ted - he’s followed me around since I was a baby. He’s looking forward to his next trip around Australia. Would’t seem right to leave him behind.

Mister Mina. - a multi eyed alien who jumped on board when camped at a private slice of heaven up on the Dampier Peninsula, known as ‘Mina’s block’.

Liz - the frill necked lizard who somehow befriended us

Hector - the Green Tree Frog who always knows the right time to fall off the dash.

Froggy, my little stuffed frog who's gone everywhere with me since I was a little kid. Wouldn't seem right to travel without him, he's now a regular on all our 4WD and outback trips, he's one well travelled little frog! Even had his photo at the tip of Cape York a few years back!

My old black dogs collar, went everywhere with me, the big lap, the Gulf, the Kimberley, 20 plus times to the Cape, she loved Sam Creek up the Cape that much that she's buried there. If your wondering, my mate was a vet who looked after her on the trip up from Bris, came along, aswell as 14 others to see her off. Bloody good wake she had too.

Why: Best mate a bloke could have.

A 1952 Penny. Why? Because my (late) father would always carry it with him in every car he owned.
1952 is the year he immigrated to Australia from Italy. He loved this country and so do I. Not sure if it was the first penny he ever earned or anything of any great significance.
Fab.

that's all very interesting that some of you have life long tokens etc. the reason why I asked is that close friends are currently doing the lap and before they left they were given a small garden gnome and a small scottish terrier figurine as good luck tokens. So that got me wondering who else has travel tokens. thanks everyone for sharing.

A set of no 4 fish hooks set up as a tailor rig.

My old dad made them with me 2 weeks before he died, intended for a fishing trip to Moore River in WA.

Dad died, I went to get away from everything. I used all my other tailor rigs and caught nothing but weed and lost all my rigs. Tied the rig we made on looked to the sky and said "Just one'll do Old Boy!" Straight on - biggest tailor I have ever caught. "Ok, one each then!" Straight on - another one slightly bigger. Haven't caught another one in 14 years.

Cut the rig of and put it on the dashmat. It has been there ever since on every 4 WD I have owned since he left us. I have taken it on all my trips and when I go somewhere new a give it a little rub on the way.

I have taken it to all the geographical extremities on both mainland and Tasmania and I give it a little wash in the water.

I'll never use it again and I know he is always with me.

I miss ya Old Boy!

Cheers

Anthony