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Welcome to Hobohome
The website for Australian Caravanners and Motorhomers

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On this site you will find our Travel Log (over 8 years of travelling Australia in a converted bus) as well as a wealth of information and technical articles relating to motorhoming and caravanning. If this is your first visit, you may like to view our overview page to get an idea of what we are all about.
*LATEST* - You can now view OTHER travellers motorhomes and caravans, and even add your motorhome or caravan for others to view. Click the red "Other Rigs" menu button above.

Hobohome Travel Blog

Our travel log is a collection of stories and photos from our travels. Click on the excerpt below to view the latest blog entry - or you can browse the entire collection to see where we have been.
There is a map on the Travels Page that shows our full track around this great country.

SPOT

Thanks to the great people at SoftRock we carry a SPOT satellite GPS messenger. This amazing little device tracks our location 24 hours a day. To see where we are right now (and read more about SPOT) - click here.

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Latest Travel Blog Entry

12th of May 2013

We have been very busy. Well, busy for us. For the last six months we have been getting the property at Mt Perry ready to look after its self for however long it is that we are away (years). This has involved installing watering systems for the fruit trees, monitoring systems to allow us to keep an eye on the place, fences to keep animals out and alarm and surveillance systems to keep other unwanted more...


About the Motorhome

Car inside a motorhome

Hobohome is a 1968 Bedford TRP bus that has been converted into a comfortable motorhome. However, Hobohome is far more than that ... it has had a number of owners and each of us has added own own additions and improvements.
It is fairly unique in that it can carry a small car INSIDE the motorhome (tucked neatly under the queens sized bed). To learn more about Hobohome, visit The Rig Page for a virtual tour of our home on wheels.

Motorhoming & Caravanning Articles

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Latest Article

Buying Solar Panels (without getting ripped off)

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3rd November 2012 at 11:17 am by Hobo

How to buy cheap solar panels without getting ripped off. For many years solar panels were very expensive to manufacture and were equally expensive to purchase. The price of panels was very stable at around the $10 per watt mark for a number of years. Manufacture of panels was limited to just a few well-known more...



Recent Articles

Building the shed house – shouse.

22nd September 2012

Diagnosing Motorhome and Caravan Electric Fridge Issues

23rd March 2012

Fridges for Motorhomes and Caravans

5th February 2012

Connecting Motorhome and Caravan Batteries

13th January 2012

Why Battery Voltage Does NOT Indicate Battery Charge State

23rd October 2011

Motorhome and Caravan Battery Life

27th August 2011

You can see a list of all of our motorhomming and caravanning articles by clicking HERE

 

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Ever wondered why are there Google Ads on the Hobohome Site?

It costs quite a bit of money each year to keep the Hobohome site running. We have decided to allow advertisements on selected pages of the site to help offset the costs involved in maintaining and hosting the Hobohome website. You can read more about how this works by clicking here. Thanks and happy Motorhoming and Caravanning - Gavin & Tracey.

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