WHAT WE KNOW - 100 DAYS CARAVANNING AUSTRALIA | FULLTIME TRAVEL | IS IT WORTH IT? EP 1
What we know what what we know what we know what we know what we know what we know travelling Australia caravanning camping [Music] okay welcome guys to what we know with tttm trippin to the macs that's us. This is something new that we're trying a midweek episode release. So it's what we know travelling full-time on the road, what we've learned tips and tricks. What we like, what we don't like. Product reviews that we use just a bit of everything, bit of anything. So it may help you out from what we learnt and
what you can help us out with that you know. Yeah, so if you've got anything you want to know or want us to cover just drop it in the comments below and we'll we want to make a little Community out of this so we'll learn from you, you learn from us and we'll be uh Happy Days. So our first episode with what we know with trippin to the macs is our 100 day 100 Days travelling full time on the road. Can you believe it? It's going way too quick! It has gone way too quick. It's been absolutely amazing um 100% recommend getting out and doing it if you can. um if you can't leave it through us. go n jump up and hit that subscribe button, the notification and if you're liking these give us a thumbs up um that way you don't miss any we can help you, you can help us and we can all be happy. So we're here on location at Mayfield Bay Mayfield
Bay and 100 days of travel what we know so to get straight into it we know that we've traveled 8 200 kilometers and we also know that the RAM is a damn expensive way to travel those to 8 200 kilometers. So we know if you've watched our previous episodes that we have a RAM 1500 and we have a Yonder G-Shock off-road 22ft caravan with all the bells and whistles. So we're not we're not light but we didn't expect to be that cheap and we're pretty stoked actually with how it's all going so. So traveled kilometers 8 200 or roughly around there. We have an average fuel consumption off
our computer at 22.8 liters per 100 at the moment which is pretty good. And our worst has been 37 ish that's for an extended time I've seen it up if we put down it goes up to about 80 or 90 but um I don't do that that often and our best has been about 13-ish um along with high way which we haven't hit many of them in Tassie. So and I'm pretty good at writing down the fuel prices so our worst fuel price has been actually in the middle of Melbourne two dollars and four cents point nine and our best has been a dollar 74.9. yeah so quite the range but yeah um best we've seen over here a dollar seventy two point nine but yeah averaging sort of the other dollar 80 in Tasmania. Accommodation. So as you know we've said before we like to free camp it. Our Jam is free camping or low-cost camping where we can fire where we can spread out a little bitr where we can be in the bush away from people. So 100 days on the road we have stayed at 40 different sites all up. 40 different sites that's pretty good I think. Yeah which is 22 free camps
at 64 nights yeah 15 low-cost national parks I sort of that's 15 an undermark. Which has been about 22 nights. Yeah which has been pretty cool and two Caravan Parks, one was Mildura yeah which was for Jaxon's birthday and one was a just an overnight it was like a community camp area thing but yeah um yeah so two Caravan parks at four nights and um we have stayed at a show ground for 10 nights yeah ten nights at 10 nights at the showground which was Hobart over the Christmas break blah blah blah. So we know that for our travels we eat way too much food and food
is our biggest expensive apparently. I thought it was going to be fuel but it's actually food. Now we are going to do a full budget breakdown in possibly in one of the upcoming episodes so we're not going to go too much into what the expenses are but we know that food is expensive and we need to stop eating so much. We do have two boys that never shout the fridge and cupboard doors so we'll have to gaffa tape their mouth shut or we'll buy bigger locks so anyway. But that includes a lot so we'll like what Daniel said we'll do a budget breakdown we'll tell you what that includes so stay tuned for that one but it yeah it includes a lot with in that. Yeah but if you don't watch
it food can be ridiculous. yeah especially in Tassie where a lot of not so Regional towns where you've only got the IGA and stuff the food prices can get up so that does add to it as well but um yeah so. So yeah that's that's you know so what we've learned is that what we've learned is that there is a massive mix of camps. Some good some not so good. which we knew before we left but um. yeah top top favorite for you I'm making Cockle Creek so far, far south of Tassie um yeah it's it was brilliant um perfectly water perfect weather. Camp itself wasn't that brilliant but yeah it's just what we
got down there beautiful I'm saying I was saying cockle Creek. I'm gonna say Lime Berry Tassie. Oh yeah. So that was around the Port Arthur area and it was amazing the water was amazing the kids had lots of fun snorkeling and yeah that was that was a top we spend about 5 nights there. and it was uh
it was a fun of the local National bar 15 bucks a night plenty of History around the area yeah Lime Bay was that was good. That was a real good one um and West Tassie Trial Harbor absolute stunning time we had there yeah um basically the edge of the world edge of Australia edge of Tasmania um yeah there was a cracker definitely, definitely a fave on the west side of Tassie anyway. Victoria we had shallow Inlet was awesome yeah that was a brilliant place to visit to do Wilson prom from got some Sand in my eye. um yeah sitting on the beach is a little bit Breezy but
uh yeah so Wilson's Prom shallow Inlet that was awesome. Joanna Beach on The Great Ocean Road was a stunner for our Adventures across the Great Ocean Road. um low cost National Park 15 bucks a night or something along those not excuse me um yeah so they were probably beautiful Sunset yeah um lots of wildlife so they'll probably have five fav at the moment there's been plenty but they where the five we know. We also know that there are some not so good ones
um my least favorite spot so far would be Terran Caravan Park in Victoria only for the sole reason it wasn't big enough to accommodate our rig and I got really stuck no other reason other than that. um it was Community run by the rotary or lions one of those clubs so yeah it was nice but yeah and we didn't film that didn't have didn't have a real good time there but my least favorite I think was there was just a roadside stop between Gunning and Hay uh Beckham it wasn't bad it was a good overnighter but just yeah not not it was just a little little car park basically you've had some facilities there um but yeah it was from what the other ones we've done not our favorite nothing wrong with it but yeah not our favorite. And the other one that the boys picked was the Luina. Which is in West on the western side of Tasmania. um it's an old abandon mining town and we base
ourselves there to do Cradle Mountain. It served its purpose but it was pretty run down it was if you've ever watched Walking Dead yeah I swear it's just like that two or three years done track and Nature's taken over everything so basically packed up taken off and nature just taking back over there. So there are three least favorite for no apparent reason just so they're not as good as the rest of them. Other things we've learned is that things go wrong yeah things go wrong so we've had one incident with the car and I'll let Daniel talk about that because yeah basically some of the wiring that runs a hydraulic pump on our van from the car come loose feel under the exhaust. It melted shorted out the fuse everything stopped out in the middle of the road which is awesome because it's the main travel route for big trucks and lots of cars. So if you've watched some of our episodes we have shown that in it yeah go back to our Hay one of our first episodes so go check that out.
um but yeah so that was pretty scary but turns out it was pretty minor but um yes that was our most, that was the only real major thing but oh that we've had minor things with the van and um they can be easily fixed or tweaked but just our water pump keeps playing out we're trying to get us sorted it's just we don't know if it's pump or something to do with the battery with the Bluetooth system uh we've had a looked at they've dumped a lot of water through it and worked perfect on that day yeah so but if you jump in the shower you have a shower and because we're water savings so you turn it on, you turn it off, soap up turn it back on no water, yeah so if you've had the same issue let us know yourself yeah we're trying to I can over I can override it with a switch but I don't really want to do that but yeah anyway if you've got any ideas into but yeah it's just um okay um i guess it uses more power. and then the other thing we've got Fresca fans which are very similar to the siroccos but the last couple of days when we've been using it because it's been really hot the blades have been falling off yeah a little spindle inside isn't grabbing the fan itself so the fan of the actual fans working perfectly just the blades are sticking in so if you've had that problem let us know your solution because at the moment we are using tape yeah just a little bit tape on it to jam it on and seems to be working but we shouldn't have to deal with new fans and one major incident that has happened is that we the latches on the top cupboards um come loose Daniel tightens them up and moves them around and checks them but one day we were traveling through and all our cups fell out of the top covered and into the bench so that's one of our majors the cabinets has come open itself which is not ideal but anyway. um just little things but yeah anyway so things do go wrong uh we also know that there are things we wouldn't be without yeah um for me it's Makita tools um i though you were going to say me? so first yeah so Makita tools my drill and my the vacuum cleaner we use the vacuum all the time it is amazing and it's all good because it's they all use the same battery one charger less stuff to carry um so I carry drill, rattle gun, um vacuum cleaner all this stuff and grinder yeah um I have used all of it and I will use all of it going forward but would not be without my tools. I would not be without the airfryer we have saved so much money on lunches dinners whatever cooking in our airfryer it's and yeah and our induction cooker so those two things for cooking we wouldn't be without. They are good money Savers. um yeah we use them all the time we have the we're lucky
enough we have the battery power and the inverters and stuff to run it so yeah why not 12 volt system yeah so yeah it wouldn't be without a 12 volt there will be an episode run down on the 12 volt but yeah a good 12 volt system in our truck would not be without because it is saving us so much money eating dinner costs a lot to set up but saving it by the time we finish traveling we would have paid for it a few times again. yes I don't know about our food budget? where to spend all that money but anything the airfry was one of the last things we actually put in our van yeah we are 100% happy that we did it so um we'll never be without that um so the dirty gear bags that we carry on both the van and the car would not be without them um we put firewood in and we put our wet hoses our rubbish our dirty clothes our wet clothes um stops it all ended up in the van ended up in the car we have the TJM ones um I will do a rundown on those in some point but yeah they uh I would not be without dirty gear bags um if you could have if people can have 40 of them I would but we can only fit two so anyway diesel heater for Tasmania 100% we've used it a fair bit over here. We just got a Chinese cheapy I installed it myself um yeah it would not be without diesel yeah it's mostly the main reason we've used it over here actually because the West Coast was the weather was so crappy we use it for drying our clothes in the van . I don't know if buying the diesel or using a dryer as a laundromat would have been more expensive but yeah yeah I don't know anyway convenience diesel heater 100% and the last thing I think good drink bottles yeah um drinking water we've we've got these ones from one of those kitchen home shops they're the H2 Hydro 2s um never heard of them just found them are on sale I think they're in like house or something like that but yeah they're about 50 bucks but they got them we got them on at 50. 18 20 bucks
or something so but yeah the good water bottles if you think your pump bottles are going to cut it yeah probably not because we leave these in the car go do our stuff come back and there is always cold water we just put a few ice cubes in in the morning and fill it up and they're cold all day it is amazing I've yeah without it they're also perfect for a bit of product placement just kidding um but yeah so things we've brought that we don't need that we um we know Daniel that we're back too much crab no actually we've got two kids that probably didn't need that no no there not to bad. Clothes oh yeah probably not too many clothes not heaps to many but probably too many we'll get rid of a few. Anyone that's full time on the road would know that you wear your clothes you wash them you put them back and you're cupboard so you're always getting the ones from the front you never turn anything over you do wear your clothes dirty you do not change them all the time because I just don't have space, don't have washing um yeah so probably have too many clothes which we'll probably maybe sort out later and the only other thing we really brought on we brought maybe packed a few too many knives and forks which is nothing we can donate them see how it goes those if we want to about the toys for the kids yeah stuff for the kids we've got a hatch at the back that's under their bunks actually that's got balls and cricket bats and bow and arrow all that sort of stuff just stuff yeah that we probably brought too much of that so again we'll probably Rectify that along with that pool noodles we thought we'll need them for their snorkeling and stuff but they are way better swimmers than we though pool noodles probably will not get used yeah a little miss over here might be the only one that will use a pool noodle when we're out snorkleing because she just feels more comfortable with it but yeah yeah so we haven't done too bad with all that but yeah anyway we have that we've got a bit too much stuff and probably containers and crap like that that we don't use we use like suction bag things for Harvey Norman which most of the time saying I will probably rectify all that at some point now things we know about full time travel if you like us or things we found out for us for full-time travel is we need sun. We have set up to use we've got a good system for battery and solar we also like to use it we use airfryers and induction cookers and we have the air conditioner the other day and we have toasters and Kettles and coffee machines we've never run out no we went for we went for a bit over a week when we first started with no sun we tried to drain it we still only got down to about 25 30% so more than happy with how it is but we do need to follow the sun the sun the other number one thing is water water and not salt water we can find plenty of that but um fresh water especially in Tassie we've noticed that it's a bit harder to find than Mainland not impossible not that hard like we've got good water storage so we managed to it doesn't it's not a problem for us but it could be an issue yeah you just got to be mindful you're always thinking about solar and water yeah and dump point the hot tip is carry a second canister we haven't used ours yet but there's been a couple of times when we definitely getting closer but yeah we've 100% we will use two at some point apparently as everybody gets bigger everything that comes out of them gets bigger and now to um yeah so we know that we need to be aware of those three things we also know that traveling fast as we were in the beginning is damn expensive it is a lot more expensive fuel-wise yeah mainly just fuel wise if you're free camping it's all right if you're traveling fast and Caravan camping with the flux with differing prices in caravan Parks it could become astronomical yeah but yeah we're probably chewing about 20 20 or 30 an hour I reckon while we're driving yeah so if we do that do lots of kms every day that works out quite expensive and be home before next Christmas so yeah so traveling if you can travel slow yeah um we know when we get over the back of the Mainland we will slow right down because we won't have anywhere to be won't have that time frame yeah but yeah so um we also know there are lots of people traveling Australia so if you're worried about getting out there and not having your friends and what not with you there are so many people to talk Your not alone. and it's amazing just the social aspect of everything everyone's like-minded everyone's there for the same reason so um get out there and do it don't wait yes we also know that you have to be able to change daily yeah hourly minutely even like um things happen you might have something set in and you will get to where you're going and it's just can't be it's not what you thought it was or you might like somewhere and want to stay longer yeah so be adaptive to change um that we don't travel with any sort of plan so even this morning yeah I woke up and we didn't know it would be here yeah so we got here and then we almost couldn't get here and we didn't always couldn't get in so we're almost gonna have to change it but yeah so they adapted the change um and as I only said don't plan too far ahead yeah we also know everyone needs their own space and everyone needs their own time so living in a small little box well you know that a caravan is a very confined space we need to give everyone their own space we need to give everyone their own time to because they're so emotional they don't understand their feelings we need to be very mindful of them because we're essentially dragging them on this journey so um yeah we just need to be mindful of those around you is what we know yeah and I guess which comes with that is sometimes you just need your down days yeah like you need a day to not go explore not climb a mount not walk to Waterfall not do nothing just sit there have a day for kids if you've got kids let them just chill out doing stuff all day every day is tiring and it's a lot it's a lot so sometimes you don't get home tonight you get up early and everyone just gets tired and cranky okay so yeah have a down day have down days um don't plan unless you are on a strict time limit and you have to otherwise slow down have coffee read a book drink beer however even if you are on a time limit still schedule a down day every now yeah and I guess the last thing for me or for us is that we know it will take you a while to settle into full-time travel or any sort of travel living going from a home to a box on Wheels into that confined Place does take a while but we have found now that 100 Days on the Road as I've said the kids and us we're starting before the Caravan home. it's our safe place it's home you know and it's starting to reflect in our communication and yeah so if you are starting out now we know it will get better so hang in there yeah um but yeah and we know if you're thinking of doing it we know you should yes but anyway so that's our first we know with tttm um now quick 100 day on the road breakdown yeah um yeah well we said before we want to turn this into a little Community type thing so if you've got any comments questions have any tips for us drop them in the comments below tell us what you know as well and yeah all right so we're going to leave that one here we're going to go and enjoy this and we'll see you next time we're out of here see you guys
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