Our video introducing Boondockers Welcome shared this clever way to connect RVers with free, legal camping on private property. Not only were we welcomed like family by our gracious BW hosts here in Australia, but we also toured the most mondo custom-built 4-wheel-drive outback-tackling motorhome we’ve ever seen while we were staying with them.
Doug & Di are not only Boondockers Welcome hosts here in Woodgate Beach, Queensland, but they’re fellow RVers… on two continents! They currently tour Australia in their beautiful 40-foot coach, which is the second one they’ve customized themselves. For their extensive travels around North America (including Alaska), they own a second motorhome in the States.
Despite the fact that we visited over a holiday weekend when Doug & Di were entertaining relatives & friends (virtually all fellow RVers), we were welcomed like family. Just about everyone we’ve met Down Under has been gracious, generous & friendly, but this kind of hospitality took things to a whole new level.
Thanks to Doug & Di and their entire family for making us feel so at home. We really feel as though we’ve made new friends for life. And a special thanks to Peter & Marie for sharing details of their amazing custom “Peterbuilt” (as in “PeterBuilt It”) motorhome.
An extra-special thanks to Marianne & Anna for creating Boondockers Welcome, without which we would never have become an extended part of Doug & Di’s wonderful family. Don’t forget that RVgeeks viewers get a 15% discount on their initial membership with coupon code “RVGEEKS15” at www.BoondockersWelcome.com.
Related Videos:
- Official Trip Announcement – We’re Going Down Under!
- Melbourne, Australia Beachfront Boondocking
- Tasmanian Devil Feeding Frenzy!
- Preparing to Drive on the Left in Dunedin, NZ
- Akaroa, NZ Waterfront Freedom Camping
- Freedom Camping on the Mohaka River near Napier, NZ
- RVgeeks Interviewed by the Legendary Pacific Coast team
- Picking Up Our Campervan. We’re On the Road in OZ!
- Snorkeling the Great Barrier Reef
- How To Hook-Up & Dump Tanks on an Australian Campervan
- Duck-Billed Platypus Hunting in Australia’s Atherton Tablelands
- Australia Campervan Tour
- Magnetic Island & Koalas In The Wild!
- The Whitsunday Islands: Float Plane to Spectacular Whitehaven Beach
- Kangaroos & Wallabies on the Beach at Sunrise
- Brekky on the Barbie
Marianne Edwards
Sunday 24th of April 2016
On behalf of Boondockers Welcome, thank you to TheRVGeeks for capturing this experience on video and, above all, to our members, Doug and Di (Woodgate Wanderers), for being such a wonderful example of what our club is all about!
TheRVgeeks
Sunday 24th of April 2016
Thanks to you and Anna for creating a mechanism that provides so much more than a place to camp. It connects real people in real ways and has allowed us to make new friends half-way across the globe whom we could never have met otherwise. What better way to experience the joys of RVing than by making new friends for life. Thank you. Thank you.
Mary Lantz
Saturday 23rd of April 2016
I loved this! What wonderful, caring, dear people. I especially like the Mad Max Outback super RV..wow!! Just goes too show with skilled ingenuity anything is possible. Thank you for taking us on your adventures.
TheRVgeeks
Sunday 24th of April 2016
With his mad mechanical skills, Peter really could be Mad Max!
JDLee
Friday 22nd of April 2016
i sooooooo AGREE with the dif types licenses,for dif size RV rigs, i wish the states would make some of these class a drivers go thru some sort of RV drivers course before they just turn them out on the roads&highways , i and im sure others can tell the rookie class A and BIG 5th wheels drivers ....
and im NOT being mean here , im jus sayin!!!
FYI ive been a professional CDL drivers 30+yrs
TheRVgeeks
Friday 22nd of April 2016
Scares me sometimes how ridiculously easy it is to drive a big rig in most states with zero training.
Russ Iverson
Friday 22nd of April 2016
This instills hope in human race, real hospitality, good people, again, thanks for sharing!
TheRVgeeks
Friday 22nd of April 2016
It sure does!
John S.
Friday 22nd of April 2016
This was a delightful video to watch.
My first smile was when you did the turn around at the welcome sign to show how close the beach is. What a pleasing intro to the area.
Peter's Peterbuilt coach is amazing and really shows how resourceful some people can be. I'll be willing to bet that Peter lives in a smaller town and not in a big city highrise.
But I especially loved the clips of Matilda. That even made up for the welcome sign getting your names out of order. (J comes before P. )
With Nikki & Jason's update and now your posting it has been a great week for us followers!
TheRVgeeks
Friday 22nd of April 2016
Hi John!
"Peter doesn't live in a big city high-rise" might be the understatement of the year! He made a face and complained about their upcoming trip being a "bitumen run" (on pavement), which he hates! We've been keeping up with the trip that Doug & Di are on... bush camping across the outback in their sport-utility (which they've specially prepared for the trip). They are all so rugged, self-sufficient and handy that it makes us feel more like RV Dorks in comparison. LOL
We're also thrilled with the progress that Jason & Nikki ( J before N :-P ) are making. Very excited for them.
John S.
Friday 22nd of April 2016
P.S. My after bracket comment smilie did not show. Is it possible to post smilies? ;)