BELOW ARE JUST SOME OF THE OTHER ENTRIES…
ON THE ROAD AGAIN
Just love having our state’s borders open again
so that we can finally get out and about. Just
saw that the cruise ship industry is bouncing
back; I couldn’t think of anything worse than
being surrounded by people all day. Give me
the wide, beautiful outdoors any and every
day. That’s what Australia is all about.
Tony Dudfield
CLOSE TO RETIREMENT
We are four years away from retirement and
travelling with our van. My husband had an
accident at work 11 months ago and our
super has taken a hit so we wont have as
much as we thought to live on and any little
thing we can save on will help us greatly.
Donna Paterson
ROOFTOP PHOTOGRAPHY
I have been thinking about getting a Rola
Titan roof rack to replace my existing setup as
sometimes the opportunity arises for photos
to be taken at roof level. One of these would
be a great platform for this.
Robert Sinfield
KEEPING FREE CAMPS OPEN
With the recent closure of the free camp in Mt
Barker, WA, it again brings up the
conversation of whether free camps are
beneficial to small towns. With this age of
internet, word quickly gets around to the
nomadic travellers when a local council
authority closes down a free camp in favour of
supporting a caravan park.
We full-time travellers spend our money in
their food stores, their butchers, their bakeries,
their servos, and even their post offices,
newsagencies and mechanical/tyre
workshops. So why do these councils make
these decisions that cut their nose off to spite
their face?
To sacrifice all those dollars spread around
their community in order to redirect a fraction
of that precious economy to a single caravan
park owner makes absolutely no sense!
We need to keep up the pressure on councils by
showing them how much they would lose if they
closed their free camp. It can be really as simple
as writing to the local council in charge of the
free camp and enclosing copies of your receipts.
There are lots of great apps that turn a photo
of your receipt into a PDF, so simply write an
email thanking the town for their free camp
and their hospitality, and include the copies of
the receipts.
We the travellers need to be proactive in
keeping our free camps open.
Who wouldn't want to win a
Titan Tray roof rack?
Christine Moore aka
The Travelling Seamstress.