D-MAXvideo

Review: Isuzu D-MAX LS-U+

I’ll be honest: I have always wanted a ute. When it was time to buy a new 4WD a few years ago, I had my eye firmly on the D-MAX. However, with a young...
road trip

The Van Life! A Daily Cost Breakdown Of Your Road Trip

With more than 823,000km of road, vastly contrasting landscapes, and affordable options for accommodation, food, and more, Australia is a caravanner’s paradise. But unless you have unlimited finances, travelling with an RV is something...
mattress

Is A Foam Or Spring Mattress Better For Your RV?

You should never compromise comfort when sleeping, especially in an RV. Nobody wants to get taken out of commission by lower back problems while they’re trying to enjoy life on the road. Having a...
GPS

DIY Offroad GPS! Cheap But Effective!

About three years ago, I got myself an expensive, name-brand, offroad GPS navigator. It was a decent system that included both on-road point-to-point navigation as well as offroad topographical mapping. It did everything I...
camp light

Search For the Perfect Camp Light

Nope, no one type of camp light is perfect. Never was, never will be. Take, for example, needing to do a midnight run to the dunny at a communal campground. A small, handheld pencil or...
DCXvideo

The DCX Revolution!

There’s a revolution underway in Australia in terms of how we power the appliances in our RVs. At the heart of this revolution is the DCX battery system, designed and engineered in Australia by...
Northern Territory

Fishing the Northern Territory

Whose life-long dream or bucket-list item isn't to catch a barra in the Northern Territory? It's been on mine and it's still on Shannon Ponton’s. The Northern Territory is amongst the world’s best places to...
Rio Caravansvideo

Review: Rio Caravans Escape 21ft 6in

Rio Caravans is an up and coming manufacturer based in Australia’s caravan manufacturing capital: Campbellfield, Vic. Operating out of an unassuming factory filled with vans under construction, Rio Caravans has been at it for...
fridge friend

The Fridge Friend Fix

After years of refining my caravan setup, from solar panels to water filtration, I thought I had food storage sorted. But on my recent three-week journey through Victoria, one small addition made a surprisingly...
TuffTRAX

When the going gets Tuff

Jugens Australia has released a new model in its line-up of TuffTRAX offroaders, the XP1850. The new rig include a double bed, a dinette that converts into a single bed, an 80L compressor fridge, fans...