Outback IT Service

The trip to Brisbane & Lightning Ridge didn’t eventuate, because it would cost too much in fuel, but we are looking forward to a week off to do some cruising around closer to home. The generator has been serviced, which makes us fully self-contained, but we will probably stay in campgrounds with power anyway. [...]

The house batteries are in, charged & ready to go. The Telstra NextG Broadband Wireless account has been changed over to use a new BigPond Elite Home Network Gateway, which translates the mobile broadband signal into a local wifi area, so that we can all get online with our laptops. Just waiting for the [...]

We are now finally clear of the debt that we incurred when we bought the bus. It has taken the sale of all 7 of our investment properties to get to this point. We are still deep in debt, but at least that one is out of the way.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, [...]

Two trips to Melbourne later & with the LPG conversion in & working, we are slowly moving ahead. We learn something new every time we take the bus out on the road, from little things like remembering to turn the Bluetooth on the mobile phone, on before driving & off when finishing, right through [...]

We had the weekend at Majors Creek recently for the Music at the Creek Festival. It was so relaxing to be surrounded by music for 2 whole days. And while there were people getting drunk, I did not hear a single angry word in the whole time that we were there. Lesson learned on [...]

Our progress towards setting up this service has been slow & painful. We ran into financial problems & have effectively traded 5 of our properties for the motorhome. And we have also decided that our escape date is probably at least 2 years away. How does 11/11/11 sound?

Meanwhile, there are things to be [...]

I have been spectacularly impressed by a product known as ReImage. According to their “how does it work” information, they analyse a Windows XP installation, figure out the pieces that are missing & plug them in from downloaded files, to produce a working version again. Even machines that have XP so damaged that they [...]

We finally collected the rig in late April & took 5 days to drive it home to Canberra. Picture shows Julie christening the BBQ in a park in Narrabri, with the baby 4WD attached via an A-frame, just visible at the back. We are delighted with our purchase & feel honoured that we will [...]

Just to put our potential territory in an international perspective:

Take all the US states north & west of Memphis, with a temperature range between Oklahoma & Costa Rica.

Or all of mainland Europe up to & including Poland & Bosnia, with a temperature range between Syria & Djibouti.

Is that a bit scary? [...]

If you are one of our potential customers, this is what you are likely to see coming down your driveway!

Other links:

The family website.

The property blog.