Awning – The awning is a shade that pulls out from the side of your van. In Australia these come standard as the heat is unbearable without the shade provided by the awning. The awning will keep your van much … Continue reading A is for Awning
Air Conditioning – Just like the one at home it will keep you cool in summer and warm in winter but only when you’re on 240 volt power. If you’re free camping in the northern tropics you’ll need a 12 … Continue reading A is for Air Con
No matter how large a van is you really don’t have much storage space and what you have must be used wisely. Personally, I do worry about storing potatoes under the fridge, but here’s some sage advice from Toothless Johnno “Don’t store you bike helmet next to the hot water service”. Continue reading A Storage Hint
Jan 2019 We’re getting ready to go away and Woody checks the caravan batteries only to discover that they aren’t charging from the 240volt power lead. He plugs in the portable solar panels and poof, they go up in a puff of smoke. The mobile caravan repairman arrives and finds that the solar panels need a new regulator but it’s probably time that they were replaced anyway. The batteries? Well they are a much simpler problem, the plug wasn’t connected properly! Continue reading Battery Blues?
Anode – More specifically Sacrificial Anode Rod. It’s a magnesium metal rod that attracts the nasties that want to corrode your hot water service. You’ve guessed it, it happily lets them eat itself away rather than the important components in … Continue reading A is for Anode
Annexe – Not to be confused with awning. This one is the canvas room that slides onto the side of your van creating a second room. These things are invaluable if you have kids or grandkids and intend on having … Continue reading A is for Annexe
Will the real Anderson Plug please stand up! Yes, you guessed it the image on yesterday’s post was incorrect. The light plug shown would be a fat lot of good when it comes to powering your van. Continue reading An apology
For those of you who are prospective caravanners this glossary may help in understanding the terminology, but not all readers are caravanners. May I suggest then, that it will certainly improve your trivia knowledge. Hang onto your hats – A … Continue reading The A – Z of Caravan Gear
‘Keeping a weather eye out’ is a must when caravanning. You are more exposed to the elements and often in unfamiliar weather patterns and conditions. Caravanners from Victoria and South Australia tend to be more conditioned to bushfires than they are to tropical cyclones. In Melbourne it’s simple, the weather comes from the west. We watch Perth and we know that we’ll get the same thing but a little milder in a couple of days and we’ll get Adelaide’s weather tomorrow. On the east coast it seems to come from every direction leaving us totally confused about what to expect. … Continue reading Watching the weather
Freedom camping is all about keeping devices charged. Phones and Kindles and iPads and the like must be charged whenever we have 240volt power. When we don’t have ‘town power’ we use an inverter to power up our devices via our van’s 12volt plug. We all have a variety of methods of charging things up and avoiding the dreaded flat battery. When freedom camping the nights are dark, black as pitch. There’s no glow from the microwave clock to light the way to the bathroom and there’s no glimmer of a street light through a gap in the blinds when … Continue reading At least it’s not a red light!
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