travel thread

The new to us T6.1 has just towed our caravan on an 1100 mile trip touring Scotland. Cruising at around 55mph gave us about 28mpg. It has been comfortable and capable. This is one foto on a small site near Elgin. The fencing on the caravan is for our dogs.

Getting the van ready for a 5ish week trip from Adelaide in South Australia to West Australia across the Nullabor hwy. Just changed engine oil and filter, added a bm2 monitor to starter battery as I have a bmv712 on my leisure battery and want to keep an eye on both batteries. Taking my little...

Left today for a trip to Eyre Peninsula 800 km west of where we live. Weather today has been atrocious, starting out as lightning and thunderstorms, now we are parked for the night its blowing a gale. Sitting in the van with the roof down as it's so windy observing happy hour with a few beers...

Hi nice have a place as a go too. We sold our home and travelling Australia in our VW T6.1 Any ideas on storage welcome

We are waiting for new covid rules tomorrow., hopefully border restrictions will be relaxed. This should give us another attempt to get to Far North Queensland. My wife"s father is in a nursing home in Cairns, QLD so we want to visit him if at all possible. Time will tell .

Later this week we are leaving Adelaide South Australia and heading to Cairns in North Queensland. We shall be traveling inland New South Wales (NSW) and Queensland staying overnight at various rest spots until we get to Cairns. We will stay around Cairns for a week or two, hoping to go out on...

Hi all, my wife and I left home this morning heading to Central Australia for about 4 weeks. Here is a picture of our first nights free campsite. We are about 400kms north of Adelaide just starting to see the country turn more arid. It rained all the way here and is clearing up now. We are...

Probably wont sleep tonight as pretty excited, head off tomorrow for 5 weeks in Norway, plan is to try and get all the way up to Tromso, with about 2 weeks in the Lofoten Islands en route. Van all packed and tin tent hitched so ready to roll first thing tomorrow am. Scary how much 'stuff '...

Wife and I are heading out Saturday 10 Jun 17 for a drive up the far North East through the outback then across to the east coast and back down the coast to home at Hanging Rock Victoria. A short drive of about 8000km and will take about three months before we get back home. Will start the...