Thread: Grey Nomads - things I've learnt in the last few days.

Originally Posted by RisingSun

Just an observation, if they were an asshole in their working life, why would they be anything else when retired?

I get to deal with a lot of retired people in my job and retirement doesn't erase all the character floors they have been fostering for a lifetime.
More times then not you are able to pick the career they retired from.

Luckily we are all Land Rover owners, so obviously we are just talking about everyone else.

IMO, a very astute judgement, Bob

Originally Posted by RisingSun

Just an observation, if they were an asshole in their working life, why would they be anything else when retired?

I get to deal with a lot of retired people in my job and retirement doesn't erase all the character floors they have been fostering for a lifetime.
More times then not you are able to pick the career they retired from.

Luckily we are all Land Rover owners, so obviously we are just talking about everyone else.

Hey . . . you're not sending them this way, are you?

Starting to warm up in FNQ, the Nomads will start to migrate south to the cooler climates, or across the top end to visit you guys in WA.

Now that the roads are clearing, time for me to do some more exploring

There are still a few coming through. Thankfully this year I didn't have to deal with any parked on the main road, (right next to the big tourist bureau carpark!), taking up one half of the road as a roadtrain tried to pass. Hilarious!

Originally Posted by bob10

Slightly off topic, but I couldn't let that go by without telling you about my neighbour, a genial giant of a man, truck driver most of his adult life. Independent drivers drive during the day, & work on their trucks at night, sometimes until the wee hours of the morning. They have a network much like AULRO, helping each other out to keep the trucks on the road. My neighbour & his brother have almost finished refurbishing an old truck, in his front yard, over the past 18 months. When finished, they will be running it 24 hrs. a day, [ servicing/ maintenance aside] , one driving nights, one days, trying to make a living. All done with their own money, and a lot of help from their friends [ much like AULROians] So, next time you see a truck on the road, cut them a bit of slack, they are just hard working people trying to make a living in a cut throat industry. Better still, move off the road & let them pass by, they do appreciate it. Sorry about the hijack, but as far as caravans go, they are here to stay, we all have to learn to get on, like it or not. [ If you are feeling stressed, pull off the road & brew up, life's too short to fret about minor matters. ] & don't forget occasionally , Bob

nice post bob. i guess i forget about independent soldiers out there.

thanks mate.

dave.

One thing I learnt when I went around Australia was the grey nomads in Victoria are really different.

Meet a lot in parks in Victoria who had been traveling around Victoria for a couple of years and wondered why we wanted to go around the rest of Australia.

To them the rest of Australia was just sand and flat and brown and nothing to see. So why leave Victoria.

Originally Posted by Reads90

One thing I learnt when I went around Australia was the grey nomads in Victoria are really different.

Meet a lot in parks in Victoria who had been traveling around Victoria for a couple of years and wondered why we wanted to go around the rest of Australia.

To them the rest of Australia was just sand and flat and brown and nothing to see. So why leave Victoria.

Possible that bunch do not have the money for petrol, 90% of the capacity in the caravan parks in the Wide Bay area is from Victorian people.
What amuse me is that every year regardless of the weather down south they must leave Qld on the Queen's birthday. They are a creature of habits
If people do like to see caravans on the road, avoid be on them during the 3 weeks after the Queen's birthday.

Originally Posted by Chucaro

Possible that bunch do not have the money for petrol, 90% of the capacity in the caravan parks in the Wide Bay area is from Victorian people.
What amuse me is that every year regardless of the weather down south they must leave Qld on the Queen's birthday. They are a creature of habits
If people do like to see caravans on the road, avoid be on them during the 3 weeks after the Queen's birthday.

I go to Emerald for work a fair bit and the locals were moaning that every year hundreds of Victorian Retirees descend on Emerald in the winter.

When I was there last I was filling up at the Shell servo when a chap in a land Cruiser was really going off at how there was no gas. The poor girl at the till was trying to help but he was going mad.

She was trying to tell him that when the gas turns up you lot just come and all most rape the servo and take it all in a couple of hours. Then we have to wait for another week for the next tanker and it starts all over again. We are in Emerald no where near Brisbane. We can't get more gas in an hour.

But he would not understand and made himself look an idiot in front of everyone else. I. The end A chap and I butted in and told him to pull his head and if he was not happy **** off back to his tiny state.

He still went off on one and then left after everyone of the customers in the shop started laughing at him.

He did not like my suggestion that if you are so desperate for gas then you must be concerned about economy. So why the hell did you by a big petrol Land Cruiser. Should have bought a Discovery Diesel them you not have a problem. Plenty of diesel in Qld . That did not help. :-)