There is nothing quite like living the great Australian dream, by setting up for retirement with a brand-new caravan and winding out countless miles of the great open blacktop!

However, if you are planning on becoming one of the liberated and free grey nomads travelling walkabout, on Australia’s endless highways, there are a handful of tips and tricks you can do, to make sure you don’t waste silly time, or spend too much money setting up your campsite!

BUDGET

When getting setup for your trip of a lifetime, it’s easy to focus on all the great things you will head out to see and do, whilst forgetting how much it is all going to cost.

You need to employ new strategies with your budget to ensure that, you will have enough spending money without needing to, refinance the home, or pick fruit for a few weeks.

It is important to consider factors like food, fuel and accommodation, which will be easier to calculate by making a rough itinerary of your intended travels.

Although that can work, you’ll have to think about your long term spending and what sort of budget you have available to get kitted up with all the new toys!

BEST VALUE GEAR

Shopping around for your new setup can be daunting, however it doesn’t need to be, by using online resources, you can easily shop around for the best bargains on quality camping gear. Although online shopping is a fairly new resource for getting setup for camping, by shopping with reputable outlets like 4WD Supacentre, you will find there are deals to be had without compromising on quality.

By offering predominantly online sales, the modern retailer can reduce the cost of overheads, and forward the costs on to you!

So when you are shopping for your dream setup do not hesitate to score a bargain on your gear with Adventure Kings Gear and 4WD Supacentre.

SENIORS DISCOUNT

You’d be surprised at just what sort of discounts are available when travelling Oz, just by mentioning that you are a senior citizen, things like reduced bus fares, cheaper campsites, and even discounts on tours and national park entry. So if you are over 60 and are travelling around the country, don’t hesitate to get your Seniors card – and don’t forget to mention it whenever you have to fork over your hard earned!

FREE CAMPING

Australia is a huge country, because of its vast openness, you have next to no shortages of excellent free camping locations, whilst payed camping sites often offer you a place to dump waste water, hook up to mains electricity and water. Even with a much older caravan setup you can live “off the grid” for a few days at a time no worries.

By hooking up your caravan/4WD with a reliable 12v system, and carrying a portable solar panel like the Adventure Kings 250W Folding Solar Panel, you will be able to power your whole camping setup easily offering cold food and drinks from your Adventure Kings Fridge Freezer, and night time lighting from your Illuminator LED Camp Lighting for days at a time, no sweat.

You can also power your 240V needs using an Adventure Kings 2KVA Generator, for easy to start quiet mains power wherever you are, simply pull the cord and go!

COOK FOR YOURSELF

With Quality campsite cooking gear, you’d be surprised at just how much you can save by cooking all of your meals from the comfort of your van, whilst long days on the road make it mighty tempting to head out for a pub feed. When you are setup properly nothing beats a meal you prepared yourself for satisfying your hunger.

By grabbing yourself a Gasmate Voyager Portable BBQ you can cook up roasts, fry ups, steaks, and just about anything else you could think of, and all for much less than you bargained for. Operating off a standard LPG gas bottle the Voyager BBQ is able to be operated even during a fire ban, making it the top choice of campers across OZ!

Otherwise, the mix of Adventure Kings Campfire Cooking gear, and the famous Bedourie camp oven, offers nomads, the ability to cook like they did in the days of old, over the hot coals of your campsite fireplace!

COMMUNICATION IS CRITICAL!

Last but not least is keeping an open line of communication, whilst the modern mobile phone network, offers plenty of range throughout the more remote areas of Oz, there are still plenty of “holes” in the reception coverage, this is where the versatility of a UHF radio, come in handy, offering a much more affordable mode of communication than a satellite phone, a vehicle mounted UHF Radio like the Oricom UHF380K 5W UHF radio can offer up to a massive 20Km range in ideal circumstances, and costs under $300. So install a Quality UHF radio and learn how to use it for virtually cost free communication all over Australia!

There is no excuse to not get out and see more of this beautiful country, so get shopping with 4WD Supacentre and hit the road, for the adventure of a lifetime!