Gray Nomad,  gray with an a for active seniors lifestyle.
 
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Reg is happily making preparations for our next caravan tour.
Reg had his specialist appointment yesterday at the local hospital outpatient’s department. Being a senior, aged pensioner, he never saw the specialist, just one of the student doctors, who did give him a good examination, and really just listened, no opinion given to us. I felt like Reg was just a training exercise to him and the appointment we had waited for had been a waste of our time.

So back to the home remedies, the age old remedies for illness of good nutrition, chicken soup, my mum’s recipe for beef tea, nutritional supplements such as Glucosamine and anti inflammatory fish oils. Glucosamine is an amino sugar derived from the chitin of shellfish that is used by the body to support healthy joint structures. Both Reg and I take this along with the fish oil, omega 3 rich, capsules, when we experience joint pain. 

The most important thing we do to keep flexible is to walk and strive to be active. We both believe in the saying, if you don’t use it, you lose it. It is hard making the effort to begin walking again, after an illness, when you are a senior, it takes even more effort to overcome the stiffness and pain, but the reward for making the effort, a little more movement each day, is now showing for Reg J

Reg has done a great job working to reclaim his flexibility and fitnessJ. Today he is happily pottering around outside with his caravan packing for our next tripJ.

We are enjoying the trip preparation phase and I love seeing Reg getting a little fitter, every week. When he became ill back in early springtime, with whooping cough, I promised him he would be well again by Christmas. These are the other, natural supplements we both believe in, positive thinking J and making plans for the future are the things that keep today’s gray nomad, living and loving life.

 
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Our Eco-Tourer caravan outside our summer retreat
 
 
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The gray-nomad, and doggies blog, 2010 review of dog-friendly caravan parks, tour.

Reg, Indigo our poodle and will be touring Australia, in 2010,reviewing dog-and J people friendly, caravan parks and I am going to do some on location paint outs.

Our first tour will be of Victoria, beginning in summer and continuing into early autumn 2010.

Currently our focus will be on the northeast scenic location around Goughs Bay and Mansfield, where our family own an onsite caravan and we can holiday with the family at Goughs Bay Caravan Park. Check out our on site caravan for sale page if you would like a great family holiday van at a bargain price as our travels do not allow us to use this van enough to warrant keeping it.

The second phase of our review tour will take us to another favourite location of ours, beautiful Grampians region, in Victoria’s west. We will stay at Grampians Gardens Tourist Park.

 
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Then we will tour into NSW reviewing dog-friendly caravan parks and we will revisit two of our favourite areas, the Kiama Coast, staying at Seven Mile Beach Holiday Park  and South Ballina staying at Ballina Beach Holiday Park

Then we tour into QLD, and will be staying at Captain Cook Holiday Village  adjacent to a national park, magnificent beaches, in the beautiful town of 1770, near Agnes Waters.

Then touring further north towards Cairns, we will stay at the Flying Fish Point Tourist Park. See photos.

I am purchasing a new camera so I can better capture wildlife and bird photos and I plan to paint, on location and I will be keen to hear local interesting stories that I can share with my readers.  Every year, Reg and I feel that ‘this is our best tour ever’ and J 2010 certainly is forming up as one of our best.  Once we reach the top end, of QLD, who knows which direction we will take at this stage, Email me, Kathy, if you have a dog friendly venue you would like me to review during this tour or if you would like to view art or book an art tutorial. 
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Our 2010 review of dog-friendly caravan parks, tour planning, is progressing well.

Reg, Indigo our poodle and I are going to review dog-friendly caravan parks and I am going to do some on location paint outs, in Victoria during summer early autumn 2010 and plan another tour of the beautiful Grampians region, staying at Grampians Gardens Tourist Park. Then we will tour into NSW reviewing dog friendly caravan parks and we will revisit two of our favourite areas, the Kiama Coast, staying at Seven Mile Beach Holiday Park  and South Ballina, staying at Ballina Beach Holiday Park  So watch out for some lovely coastal on location painting work and stories.

I will update this list as we plan it and add actual dates we will be in each location closer to the completion of our tour plans.  Email me, Kathy, if you have a dog friendly venue you would like me to review during this tour or if you would like to view art or book an art tutorial.

 
 
 
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Reg and I are planning our 2010 Australian tour,

Every year our tour has a theme and for 2010 our purpose and theme will be to review dog friendly caravan parks and venues in a permanent location in our two travel related web sites, our Gray Nomad and our doggies blog, web site.

We will visit many dog friendly venues and accommodation places suited to  having a powered site for our Eco-tourer slipstream caravan with a preference for a drive through site and a scenic locations with a swimming area and bush or beach walks. Our tour locations must be pet friendly as we will be travelling with indigo our  miniature poodle.

This 2010 tour will be a self-funding writers and painters working holiday.

Please contact me, Kathy  if you have a venue or a caravan park that you would like me to include in our dog-friendly caravan park, review tour
 
 
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Reg and I are considering touring the south east to north east coast of Australia, once again, in 2010.  This is a hard decision as while we adore all of Australia, I suspect that our heart is in Western Australia.  This year I am ready for a change and I also want to halve the distance we have been travelling each year and leave more time to paint, write, walk and swim :-), less driving, more fun.

I have bought Reg audio book, CD's for Christmas so the drive will be extra interesting. The audio books are fantastic for long drives. i find they keep the driver very alert. ..

Our Eco-tourer, caravan is being packed out as a display gallery, painting and writing studio.
It is an exciting time of anticipation and planning.
If you have a dog friendly, caravan, park or venue and you are interested in my visiting it and reviewing it in my gray-nomad or doggies blog web sites, please contact me, during this tour planning stage.
 
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