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]Hi Guys, It's been a while so I thought I better touch base and let you know whats been happening in DVR land.
In Dec 2011 we moved from Adelaide to the Gold Coast ,but it wasn't exactly smooth sailing.
All the furniture went with the removalist and we hitched the caravan to the NAV, Loaded it to the max and set off on a friday evening. The plan was to meet them at the house onTuesday morning 7am. Spent the first night somewhere near BALRANALD and set off early the next day and about 150K past HAY, we stopped for lunch.
After lunch we left and found ourselves climbing a bit of a hill, we just snicked 3rd gear as we came over the crest, when a truck went past and that started us swaying. The NAV only swayed about 3 times and we left the road.
We only made it 3k, it was Saturday, 1pm, hot as hell.
I cant tell you what this felts like, you wouldn't understand.
Just as the dust cleared the first car stopped to help, then another, and another. one was an off duty cop. She said the car has to be towed.
Long story short, Got trailered to Griffith where we signed the necessary papers to get the car repaired and caravan inspected. We were then ushered outside the crash repairs and the gate was locked.
It was 5.30 we only had the clothes on our backs, a dog on a lead and a cat in a cage.
It took about 1 1/2 hours to find a hotel that would take us with no little amount of pleading. We had the hotel owner on our side but his manager bluntly refused, pointing to the"NO Pets" sign. Finally the owner grabed her(the manager) made her face us and told her to "JUST LOOK AT THEM"
She couldn't do enough for us from that point on.
The next day I made a call to a mate who lives on the gold coast. Without hesitation he hired a trailer and set of to rescue us. He got to griffith at 5am monday.
By the time we got everything transferred from the NAV and the Van It was about midday. The weather was appalling, like driving into a fire hose all the way, all night, till we got passed WARRICK.
We got to our new house at 5am.
The removalist turned up at exactly 7am.
I flew back to Griffith on AUSSIE day to pick up the NAV as good as new. The caravan was a write off.
Anyway, we are all settled in our new home, I have a great job and the family love it here.
In Dec 2011 we moved from Adelaide to the Gold Coast ,but it wasn't exactly smooth sailing.
All the furniture went with the removalist and we hitched the caravan to the NAV, Loaded it to the max and set off on a friday evening. The plan was to meet them at the house onTuesday morning 7am. Spent the first night somewhere near BALRANALD and set off early the next day and about 150K past HAY, we stopped for lunch.
After lunch we left and found ourselves climbing a bit of a hill, we just snicked 3rd gear as we came over the crest, when a truck went past and that started us swaying. The NAV only swayed about 3 times and we left the road.
We only made it 3k, it was Saturday, 1pm, hot as hell.
I cant tell you what this felts like, you wouldn't understand.
Just as the dust cleared the first car stopped to help, then another, and another. one was an off duty cop. She said the car has to be towed.
Long story short, Got trailered to Griffith where we signed the necessary papers to get the car repaired and caravan inspected. We were then ushered outside the crash repairs and the gate was locked.
It was 5.30 we only had the clothes on our backs, a dog on a lead and a cat in a cage.
It took about 1 1/2 hours to find a hotel that would take us with no little amount of pleading. We had the hotel owner on our side but his manager bluntly refused, pointing to the"NO Pets" sign. Finally the owner grabed her(the manager) made her face us and told her to "JUST LOOK AT THEM"
She couldn't do enough for us from that point on.
The next day I made a call to a mate who lives on the gold coast. Without hesitation he hired a trailer and set of to rescue us. He got to griffith at 5am monday.
By the time we got everything transferred from the NAV and the Van It was about midday. The weather was appalling, like driving into a fire hose all the way, all night, till we got passed WARRICK.
We got to our new house at 5am.
The removalist turned up at exactly 7am.
I flew back to Griffith on AUSSIE day to pick up the NAV as good as new. The caravan was a write off.
Anyway, we are all settled in our new home, I have a great job and the family love it here.
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