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ew Year to all our readers, trust that 2012 will be a good year for you all and that fellow travellers have safe and exciting travels around this great country.
December saw us back at our “home” base at Napperby, South Australia where we joined the family for the festive season. This year we have enjoyed the extra company of my brother Pete and his wife visiting from Derby, UK. They insisted on coming to SA in December-January as they wanted a bit of sun. Well to date, they have seen the worst storm ever. Sixty-six mm of rain, hail and strong winds that blew down trees, a power pole and disrupted power for 17hrs. Since then, several days over 40 degrees, hot north winds today and praying for the cool change that might bring some rain.
We totted up the statistics of our first travels in the Truelux 5th wheeler van. We travelled a total of 16861 Kilometres, 8086 kilometres towing the van; Used 2907 litres of diesel, at an average cost of $1.49 cents/litre. We had 254 days of travel between picking up the new van, two visits to Melbourne for service and four states, one territory. We crossed state borders 11 times, changed clocks three times and had all four seasons of weather. Climbed a mountain, paddled in the sea and seen waterfalls, green hills and dry semi-deserts.
We look forward to more travels in 2012, not too soon due to family celebrations but April should see us heading North or West once more. Australia still has plenty for us to see and share.
Good health to you all, happy travelling wherever you are; we would love to hear from you soon.
ew Year to all our readers, trust that 2012 will be a good year for you all and that fellow travellers have safe and exciting travels around this great country.December saw us back at our “home” base at Napperby, South Australia where we joined the family for the festive season. This year we have enjoyed the extra company of my brother Pete and his wife visiting from Derby, UK. They insisted on coming to SA in December-January as they wanted a bit of sun. Well to date, they have seen the worst storm ever. Sixty-six mm of rain, hail and strong winds that blew down trees, a power pole and disrupted power for 17hrs. Since then, several days over 40 degrees, hot north winds today and praying for the cool change that might bring some rain.
We totted up the statistics of our first travels in the Truelux 5th wheeler van. We travelled a total of 16861 Kilometres, 8086 kilometres towing the van; Used 2907 litres of diesel, at an average cost of $1.49 cents/litre. We had 254 days of travel between picking up the new van, two visits to Melbourne for service and four states, one territory. We crossed state borders 11 times, changed clocks three times and had all four seasons of weather. Climbed a mountain, paddled in the sea and seen waterfalls, green hills and dry semi-deserts.
We look forward to more travels in 2012, not too soon due to family celebrations but April should see us heading North or West once more. Australia still has plenty for us to see and share.
Good health to you all, happy travelling wherever you are; we would love to hear from you soon.
