Just for posterity, I’ve decided to keep a log of things that we learned along the way:
- Make sure that you have enough prescription medications with you to last the whole trip. Buying medication in a small tow can be VERY expensive
- Make sure that you have your prescriptions with you just in case, and that you have repeats available
- Staying in a “free camp behind a pub” is not cost effective when you are expected to buy a meal and you are charged like a wounded elephant …
- … although sometimes you can be surprised, like at the Yass Soldier’s Club where I had the pork ribs and loaded fries at a very reasonable price – YUM!
- Staying in a showground is not a bad option when you can get power and water for $20/night
- Get a National Senior’s Card and ask everywhere you go if they will do a senior’s discount.
- Having grey hair always helps too, BTW 🙂
- Don’t try and do too many kilometres in a day
- Some outback roads are very rough and bumpy – I’m talking about the gazetted bitumen roads not dirt tracks – and it makes for a very tiring journey
- Make sure that you Google the things that you want to see in the places you want to visit. In these pandemic times things are a bit weird, and it’s disappointing to make a trip to Bega to see the cheese factory when it is closed and has been for some time
- Tolls to bypass Sydney are very expensive when you have a caravan on the back
- Take your swimmers because you never know when you will stumble across a hot artesian springs bath
- Make sure that you have plenty of Spotify playlist options available and downloaded. It doesn’t matter how much you love Cold Chisel’s Khe Sanh, believe me that you start to cringe when it comes on your only playlist for the thousandth time
- Stop and support towns that are “RV Friendly” and go to the trouble of providing RV parking
- Get and use the WikiCamps app – it is well worth the $8.00 or so that you pay for it.
- Also get the FuelMap app so you can find the cheapest fuel around
TTFN