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frankg


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Gidday!
My name is Frank and I come from a Land Down Under.
As I sit writing these lines it is 9.30pm on Thursday night, 21 january 2010 I am aware that you are, or should be, asleep.
I have been following the adventures of Howard & Linda almost from the beginning.
I had just bought a converted bus and was looking for tales of people who have done or are doing it. It, meaning travelling across the land meeting new people seeing new places and getting involved in our land. No matter to me if some of the web pages and blogs I read were from the other side of the world. It was all information. I was and am still, hungry for information.
My Canadian wife and I are still working. I plan on retiring in September. She plans to stop working only long enough to start working once we hit a town and stay longer than a week. Whew! I will become a kept man.
Last year on a three month trip along the east coast of Australia and across the ocean to our Island state of Tasmania we realised our Toyota Coaster Bus was no longer suitable for our full time plans. We now have a Winnebago Leisure Seeker Motorhome. Mind you it is the same length as the bus but it is wider and taller and we can do a lot more with that space. Such as pass each other in the kitchen without squeezing against each other. Don't get me wrong, we enjoy squeezing but not every time we move!
Our motorhome is called "WHEREWILLWEGO" and the name is intended to reflect what we will say when we wake up somewhere in the great unknown.

So...
I have two reasons for writing this introduction.
1. Put myself up here on the forum and invite your questions you always wanted to ask about Oz but were afraid of the answer.
 We do things a little differently in Oz. (Australia) Things such as when we hook up to power it is 240 volts and 15 amps across the nation. Household power has 240 volts and10 amp plugs. Almost daily I read about camp sites in the USA which have 30 amp and 50 amp power and wonder why it is not standard 50 amp everywhere.

2. Invite you to have a look at our blog and see a little of our travels.

The blog address is

http://frankeeg.wordpress.com

My wife, Donnis flys out of Oz (Australia) on 9th February to visit her mum who is ill, in Canada. Perhaps after i retire we can get to Canada and USA in 2011 or 2012 and visit and catch up with some of you.

Come on, have a look and enjoy reading about us as much as I enjoyed writing and photgraphing the pages.

Cheers for now.
Frankeeg.



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Tim & Robyn


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Welcome aboard! I feel like an unofficial Aussie as my older sister married one and they live in Queensland - Mermaid Waters...
 and my niece and nephew enjoy dual citizenship. One of these days they will make up their minds, but that's up to them.

I doubt I will ever get to OZ, but would love to if circumstances ever work out. Until then I will have to satisfy myself with internet travelogues, pictures and the like, of this most awesome of places.

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Terry and Jo


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Welcome to the forums, Frank.  I'm sure that a lot of those that frequent here will be interested in following your adventures.  And, we'll welcome any questions that may come to you.  So, ask all you want.

As for the electrical issue, I have been in one campground in a very small town where the electrical outlet was the standard household socket on a 20 amp circuit.  Depending on the size of one's RV, the amperages differ.  Our current RV is a 26 footer with one air conditioner and 30 amp circuitry.  (Of course, the regular outlets inside are probably on smaller amperage circuits.)  Our planned RV (see below) will be close to 40 foot long with two air conditioners.  Obviously, if we will want to run both air conditioners, we will have to be on 50 amp circuits, which is what the RV will be equipped with so far as plugs are concerned.

Should one have a 50 amp unit in an area where 50 amp isn't available, we will have to use a 50 amp to 30 amp adapter and then be sure to not try to run too much at the same time.

It would be nice if everything had the same standard size.  But heck, the US uses both 117V and 240V for different uses.

Terry

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