Ian
Well-known member
Last year 60 Minutes Australia did a story about the many thousands of travelers seeing Australia by Caravan and RV. This is a great story and if you have the bandwidth, I think you will really like the video.
The Sundowners
July 10, 2005
Where have mum and dad gone? If you're in the generation 20-something to 30-something you might well be worrying about the disappearance of your parents. The good news is they're just fine. Your baby boomer oldies have run away from home to live the carefree gypsy life on the open road. Hundreds of thousands of "sundowners" ? retired Australians of no fixed abode ? a veritable legion of grey nomads. The bad news is they are out there spending your inheritance to the tune of some 10 billion dollars a year. Some have even traded in the family home to fund their pursuit of fun, sun and adventure across the wide reaches of the Australian continent.
Watch the video (needs decent bandwidth and only runs in Internet Explorer)
http://sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au/sixtyminutes/stories/2005_07_10/story_1437.asp
(Sorry that the video will only run in a recent version of Windows and only in Internet Explorer, it's an MSN site, you didn't expect them to be sensible and allow it to run on the opposition's browsers did you?)
Read the Transcript (text)
http://sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au/sixtyminutes/stories/2005_07_10/story_1440.asp
The Sundowners
July 10, 2005
Where have mum and dad gone? If you're in the generation 20-something to 30-something you might well be worrying about the disappearance of your parents. The good news is they're just fine. Your baby boomer oldies have run away from home to live the carefree gypsy life on the open road. Hundreds of thousands of "sundowners" ? retired Australians of no fixed abode ? a veritable legion of grey nomads. The bad news is they are out there spending your inheritance to the tune of some 10 billion dollars a year. Some have even traded in the family home to fund their pursuit of fun, sun and adventure across the wide reaches of the Australian continent.
Watch the video (needs decent bandwidth and only runs in Internet Explorer)
http://sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au/sixtyminutes/stories/2005_07_10/story_1437.asp
(Sorry that the video will only run in a recent version of Windows and only in Internet Explorer, it's an MSN site, you didn't expect them to be sensible and allow it to run on the opposition's browsers did you?)
Read the Transcript (text)
http://sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au/sixtyminutes/stories/2005_07_10/story_1440.asp