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A special sale

3 December 2009

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My peripatetic friend Laurie Hoffman has finally sold her bed & breakfast business and is soon to hit the road fulltime in her ‘new’ Sunliner Eurospa. She now has her Sunliner Mirage on a Toyota Hilux chassis for sale. It features a powerhouse of quality products and fittings. Here’s a brief factsheet on this fully self-contained [...]

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Why?

12 April 2009

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When friends and family ask me why I am heading off next month, to live and travel on the road, I refer them to this quote by G.K. Chesterton: The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign [...]

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So true

25 July 2008

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Found by my mate Fred who, like me, is a member of the bottom row.

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The ‘Road Warrior’ — a little history

2 July 2008

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My yearning to hit the road again was severely hampered for nearly a decade with a mysterious ailment which would flare up intermittently and cause bizarre swelling of various joints and the need for several ambulance trips, extended stays in hospital and time flying by as morphine dripped into my veins, and drains leaked pus [...]

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In the beginning

1 July 2008

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More than 20 years ago I travelled the length and breadth of Australia to research three books. I travelled on commercial airlines, light planes and helicopters, in hire cars, battered outback Toyotas and Land Rovers, by camel and horse, on cross country skis, by hot air balloon, motorboats and yachts, on bicycle, in sea kayaks, [...]

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