pnichols wrote:
Good luck getting up into the cab of that thing if your knees, hips, or feet don't work like a 30-something's do ... or if you're trying to get up into it carrying something in one hand like a 7 lb. dog.
There's a couple of ways of going off-highway in a practical & comfortable RV - one of them is to go slow and smart. An extreme rig is not always necessary - even if one could afford one.
No, that certainly would be a very stupid and dangerous approach. Especially in Australia. For a smallish area like Utah, probably not a problem
They have steps like a plane for access.
schoolteacher from Gladstone in SA's mid-north, Ms Olsen said she feared they would perish in the vast Outback. Her anxiety grew when it started raining.
The 1998 death of Austrian tourist Gabrielle Grossmueller was constantly in the back of her mind.
"The first night we were out there we kept talking about her, maybe her ghost is still walking up and down the track," she said. "We were close to where she died.
"Alister was the calm one. Every night as the sun would go down I would start crying and saying no one is going to find us."
Ms Grossmueller died of exposure on the same track after the vehicle she and her boyfriend were driving became bogged. She attempted to walk to William Creek while her companion stayed with the vehicle and was later rescued
