- WA stands for 'Wait Awhile', NT stands for 'Not Today, Not Tomorrow'.
- Installed some LED light strips in the camper and they are great. Will take a picture for the photo album soon.
- West End Draught: Not a WA beer as I thought but a South Aussie one. Not a bad drop, cheap too.
- Emu Bitter & Emu Export: Same as above but they are WA beers. Swan will be next and then I might have to revert back to my favourite, Matilda Bay Redbacks until we reach NT.
- South Australians hate Victorians, mainly Melbournians. We had no idea of their 'Kick a Vic' sayings and general hatred of all things Victorian. Reading the papers is hilarious, they are still fuming we took the Grand Prix and all their good footy players - who are they anyway! It's a bit like the small man syndrome.
- To stir things up before we left we were going to put a Geelong premiership sticker on the Prado. We forgot to do this in our rush to leave but were told by a few SA people that we most likely would have had the car damaged by crazy Power supporters. And they were serious.
- The reason I haven't caught many fish has nothing to do with my fishing skills but more with me spending too much time continually putting bait on the kids rods, fixing twisted lines on the kids rods and fixing the snags they manage to find. Honest. Just recently I did manage to catch a Banded Sweep and some Brim. Honest.
- The Prado was blowing the fuse on the Anderson plug. Book in to an auto elec in Kalgoorlie, he can't find anything wrong, tells us his life story and points to the fridge in the camper (as the culprit), which mysteriously stopped working as I pulled in. I tell him that's been fine up till then and the fuse problem happened a while ago. Nothing fixed but $100 thanks very much for an hours chat and new fuse.
- Next day notice the fridge plug in camper has been getting jammed in the door seals, broken the insulation and obviously shortening out on the door. Snip snip, rejoin and bob's your uncle. $100 down the drain.
- The Prado's 2nd battery died. Managed to find a battery to fit (took all afternoon) and 2 days later it was flat. Being 100's of KM's away from place of purchase couldn't take it back so pull it out, look around and find wire floating around the relay for 2nd battery (pulled it out when dropping the new one in), plug that in, bob's your uncle. Again.
- Have fitted a UHF to the Prado, Rhino Roof Bars and Rhino Roof Bag (already have Graham's cage) and will shortly install car kit for mobile phone when I have time. The rear end is still sagging, shifting weight in the Trak Shak doesn't help so looks like some Polyair bags might be the go soon, $$$.
- Grey Nomads. Say no more.
- Telstra: PITA.
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