Window shopping. Or we like our caravan best

Mr Fix It and I drove across to Canberra on the weekend. It is a beautiful drive across the hills. We stopped in Gunning at our favourite cafe. There is a friendly cafe lover's war on in the family. Our son-in-law likes the first cafe on the street and K likes the second. We buy tomato chutney and chilli jam at K’s choice every year.  The owners recognise us and like to catch up on our travels.



The reason for this trip was to go to the Jayco dealer for some parts for the caravan.  (And to give the Crookwell family some time without extra adults around.) The clearance lamps front and back of the van were very dull and the covers had become quite opaque after 8 years in the sun. Mr Fix It is replacing the wind down stabiliser legs with stronger drop down ones and the seal on the toilet cassette needs replacing. Some things in our little home are beginning to show their age.



We were pleasantly surprised by the prices. Caravan spare parts and accessories are usually grossly overpriced. I guess they reckon they have a captive audience and you don’t have a lot of choice. Mr Fix It got chatting to the salesman, describing our life and telling a few entertaning caravan park stories and we got a significant discount on the already quite good costs. K makes friends everywhere!

They even had a new twin tub for 40 dollars cheaper than any other place we have looked. When our poor overworked machine finally dies we know where to come to get a new one.


Then came the fun part.  Caravan window shopping!!!!!

We love to climb inside the show vans. It is a bit like going through show homes.
I love the caravans with the front u-shaped lounge area. Our caravan is a bit lacking in lounging space.  .....Then again I like the front beds. We have an rear end, east west bed I have to climb around to get to the bathroom.
Oh and I love the cleaner, brighter, lighter colours. Our van is very brown.

We both don’t like the bathrooms in the new caravans. We want extra living space not a house size en-suite. We don't like automatic washing machines in vans because it is too hard to save water.

We checked out power point positions and types, chatted about the position of the microwave, discussed the battery system and the storage space.  We disagreed on slide out or no slide our vans. We both like the extra space, but I worry about the maintenance when the slide out is stuck out in the heat for months.





We chose the caravan we are would maybe upgrade to. Led the salesman on a bit and then........ drove home, content with what we have, and slid into our own space. And one or the other of us said, “I love my caravan home.”

Truthfully we like our caravan best.

Cheers Sue

A Ferg on the Move