JohnR & Heather
Submitted: Friday, May 16, 2008 at 12:17
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Kiwi & "Mahindra"
Just had a cuppa with
John and Heather in town at maccas and had a lovely chat for nearly 2 hrs. What a lovely couple!! Its great that people who you chat to on here can meet up and talk like they've known each other for yrs!!LOL!!
They are now heading to
Sydney and catching up with some more EO'ers then who knows....maybe Great Vic Desert or
Innamincka - still undecided.
Happy travels guys and thanks for a great morning out!!
Laura and Jonty
Reply By: Member - Footloose - Friday, May 16, 2008 at 12:58
Friday, May 16, 2008 at 12:58
So they're on the move again...I find it difficult to imagine
John at Maccas :)
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Follow Up By: Kiwi & "Mahindra" - Friday, May 16, 2008 at 15:40
Friday, May 16, 2008 at 15:40
It does hey! He said only maccas for fries and the odd cuppa....town isnt friendly for towing vehicles....bit hard to get a dble space anywhere....But we had a good cuppa wither way!!
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Follow Up By: Member - JohnR (Vic)&Kath - Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 09:22
Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 09:22
Cheapest and cleanest
public toilets in many
places. I only learned of their coffees in the last month. I buy Subway occasionally F'loosie. Hope to get up to the GC later in the year mate.
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Follow Up By: Member - Footloose - Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 10:04
Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 10:04
I'd have to agree with the clean and free
toilets, especially when in Europe.
Maccas coffee up here would kill a brown dog...great for keeping you awake while driving but oh the taste...yuk.
Mind you I could go next door and get a Macafe coffee...but thats a bit flash for me. After all, I only learned what a Late is the other day. :)
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Reply By: Kev & Darkie - Friday, May 16, 2008 at 18:04
Friday, May 16, 2008 at 18:04
So are they comming via my place like I told you to tell them?? ha ha
Cheers Kev
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Follow Up By: Kiwi & "Mahindra" - Friday, May 16, 2008 at 19:11
Friday, May 16, 2008 at 19:11
I warned them off ya!! but they couldnt believe the amount of emails between us after he wanted to know if you ever worked......!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Follow Up By: Kev & Darkie - Friday, May 16, 2008 at 19:20
Friday, May 16, 2008 at 19:20
I have told ya before I am a male so therefore can multi-task LOL
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Follow Up By: Kiwi & "Mahindra" - Friday, May 16, 2008 at 20:30
Friday, May 16, 2008 at 20:30
the most you can do kev is drive on the dirt and talk to me on the phone at the same time!! i
maybe we should have another competition????? see who can boil the billy,
cook dinner, feed the kids and change nappies, sweep the tent out while making lunches for the next day.......I put 10 on it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
oh and dont forget we'll be doing the trivia at the same time!!!!!!!
ROTFLMAO
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Follow Up By: Kev & Darkie - Friday, May 16, 2008 at 20:36
Friday, May 16, 2008 at 20:36
You forgot about replacing the vhf radio back into its cradle behind the drivers
seat as
well.
Return trip was much smoother, I knew where the bad bit were LOL
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Follow Up By: Kiwi & "Mahindra" - Friday, May 16, 2008 at 20:47
Friday, May 16, 2008 at 20:47
...smoother cos you werent on the phone to me and putting things back where they belong.....like i said..you male!!!
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Reply By: Member - vivien C (VIC) - Friday, May 16, 2008 at 20:03
Friday, May 16, 2008 at 20:03
Hello
Laura,
Good to hear you met up with
John and Heather for a chat and cuppa. That's one of the great things about EO, getting to meet so many interesting, nice people.
Glad to hear that they're on the road and hope they are enjoying themselves..I'm sure they will be.
Viv
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Follow Up By: Kiwi & "Mahindra" - Friday, May 16, 2008 at 20:31
Friday, May 16, 2008 at 20:31
hey Viv....been meaning to send you an email.....had to have a ecg's this week and on waiting lit for the 24hr machine.....
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Follow Up By: Member - JohnR (Vic)&Kath - Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 09:28
Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 09:28
Had a lot of laughs Viv. Was nice to meet up with
Laura too, and Jonty, but he didn't talk as much. LOL Pretty remarkable the way we find all sorts of different things where we have pretty narrow separation degrees.
Brekkie time here
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Reply By: Member - Garth J (NSW) - Friday, May 16, 2008 at 20:13
Friday, May 16, 2008 at 20:13
Well looks like it was afternoon tea at my place.
Stopped in at
Wollongong on the way to southern
Sydney.
We compared notes on the
Kimberley Karavan. A bit of show and tell.
As stated good to meet some other people and chat about our common interests. Funny how
John and I could be twins....LOL!!
He's much taller than I!!
ie meeting other people and sharing life stories.
We first met through eo via email and a common purchase of a KK.
The journey continues..........
Garth
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Follow Up By: Kiwi & "Mahindra" - Friday, May 16, 2008 at 20:27
Friday, May 16, 2008 at 20:27
they said that there was another "
kimberley owner" in wollo that they might catch up with!!
good stuff!!
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Follow Up By: Member - Ruth D (QLD) - Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 09:18
Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 09:18
Garth, if you and
John could be twins - then that makes you triplets because
John & Willem could be bros. What a thought - three of you!!! LOL
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Follow Up By: Member - JohnR (Vic)&Kath - Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 10:25
Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 10:25
Jeepers, Ruthie what a family. LOL Great to meet up yesterday Garth. You better come out to
Innamincka and meet the rest of the family and sister Ruthie too, but make sure you have some red ready for her glass as she likes it refilled.
Well never half empty.
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Reply By: Navigator 1 (Caringbah,NSW) - Friday, May 16, 2008 at 22:16
Friday, May 16, 2008 at 22:16
John & Heather have arrived!!!
Under the cover of darkness John backed the KK down the 200m driveway without hitting a thing. After dinner and a couple of bottles of red, Heather John and I are now in the study, each on our own computer, logged onto ExplorOz. What else would people do when they haven't seen one another for such a long time. Charles get home tomorrow night so a couple more bottles will be consumed but I don't know what we are going to do about the 4th computer.
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Follow Up By: Kev & Darkie - Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 07:48
Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 07:48
He wouldn't have been able to do that with the Missan LOL
Good to see they found their way to your place, have you had anymore luck finding a replacement truck??
I am still looking for you ;)
Cheers Kev
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Follow Up By: Nick R (VIC) - Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 09:33
Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 09:33
kev, the missan is going just fine here, it backs bigger stuff than the KK, I have a photo of it with a 30 foot trailer with 11 hay rolls on it, wouldn't do that with the sahara, you might scratch it!!!
Nick
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Reply By: Member - JohnR (Vic)&Kath - Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 09:20
Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 09:20
Gee friends nice to see you so welcoming to Southern Blowins like us. We find so many EO types great to mix with and community identities in their own right.
Nice to meet Laura and Jonty earlier yesterday and then to meet Garth as one of the original members of the Kimberly Karavan Owners Group was great, even if very impromptu. Sorry mate for that. It was great to meet you after hearing "the voice" on the phone so many times.
Rob and Charlie we met before crossing the SD in 2004 and had four fun days with them then.
Will meet a few EO people while around here in
Sydney area. Mobile number is with the rigpic if you have lost it.
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