Michelle, James and I visited the Newcastle camping expo yesterday and really enjoyed ourselves. Yes it was a 4 hour (return) drive, the weather was very hot and windy, and we had to park a kilometre away- but we felt this was an early training session for when we go away. Drive for a few hours, get out and walk around looking at things, drive again, stay somewhere for the night. Repeat.
We particularly loved seeing the different camping trailer setups, which looked fantastic, but we kept reminding ourselves about the time that would go into transforming a packed up trailer hooked up to the car, to a campsite ready for eating and sleeping! Confirmed our decision to choose a motor home and at most, popping up a tent next to it. We appreciate the idea of arriving at the caravan park or campground and being able to start dinner or have a swim within a few minutes.
Speaking of motor homes and rv’s, we were really surprised by the fact that there wasn’t a single 6 berth on site. The vast majority were motor homes catering for 2 people, presumably the older retired types, and it brought home the idea that travelling as a 2 adults, 2 kids group for a sustained period of time around Australia is not an overly common occurrence. Is there something we should be worried about…?
We would like to thank our friends and family for checking out our new blog and hope you share it with others- obviously it won’t be super exciting until we are on our way but keep checking in and we’ll keep you updated.
Cheers, Scott.
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