Australia JohnM

Written by Jackie Jenkins on 18 August 2013 - 1 Comment

One of our members who lives in Australia is taking his Fleetwood on a long trip.
Extract from an email he sent to us below:
 
We are leaving Brisbane on Wednesday and will be travelling to central Australia. Going to the "top end" Darwin and then travelling south to Alice Springs in the centre of Australia, Ayers Rock and then south to Adelaide and then beck to Brisbane.
 
I anticipate the trip will take three months and we will travel over 10000Km. Will be travelling in our Meridien 560i.
 
Kind Regards
 
John Macnamara
 

His trip hasn’t been without incident and he sent us the following:

Yesterday we had a large eagle who was snacking on a kangaroo (dead) who decided to fly towards us instead of flying away. As a consequence he smashed into the side of the van, firstly cracking the door window and then smashed through the kitchen window, absolutely blowing it into a thousand pieces. All I felt was a slight movement of the van and didn't discover the damage until we pulled up in the next town. As a consequence I am now looking for a replacement window for the door and kitchen window including the hinge at the top of the window. Do you know of a source for replacement windows?

Kind regards,

John M (somewhere in outback Queensland)

After a number of e-mails, and help from another owner, we were able to find sources for the damaged items.

Thanks so much for your help - this is what a good club is all about.

Cheers,

John

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Comments (1)

  • David & Hazel Herriott

    David & Hazel Herriott

    10 September 2013 at 10:07 |
    Great photos, John. Brings back happy memories of our motorhome trip from Adelaide to Sydney in 2008 and more recently in New Zealand earlier this year (2013). Those road trains are certainly quite frightening when they are coming towards you on a narrow road. Hope you enjoy your mammoth trip. Kind regards from David Herriott (Club Treasurer).

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