Caravan Guides: Field-Tested Strategies for Off-Grid Travel

Real Knowledge for the Remote Road: No fluff. No filler. Just the hard-won essentials for small-van off-grid travel, tested across 50,000km of Australian travel.

Everyone’s got an opinion on how to set up your rig. Most of them have never tested it further than the local caravan park.

We built this Caravan Guide Hub differently. Every guide here comes from genuine long-haul travel across Australia—the kind where getting it wrong means real consequences, not just a minor inconvenience.

Our Philosophy for Caravan Guides

There’s a moment every new tourer hits—usually somewhere between the third YouTube video and the fifth contradictory forum thread—where the information overload becomes paralysing. Everyone’s got an opinion. Everyone’s setup is different. And somehow, the more you read, the less certain you become about the basics.

We built this Caravan Guides Hub to cut through that noise.

These aren’t quick tips scraped from manufacturer brochures or rehashed advice from people who’ve never left the bitumen. Every guide here is born from genuine, sustained travel across Australia—the kind where you learn what actually matters when the nearest help is a day’s drive away and getting it wrong means more than a minor inconvenience.

We deliberately started with two foundational topics. Weights and power. Get these right, and almost everything else falls into place. Get them wrong, and no amount of fancy gear or careful planning will save your trip.

Understanding your towing weights isn’t glamorous, but it’s the difference between a legal, insured rig and one that could leave you stranded on the side of the Plenty Highway with a defect notice and a voided insurance policy. For owners of smaller caravans—pop-tops, hybrids, compact tourers—the margins are tighter and the stakes are higher. You can’t just throw more capacity at the problem. You need to understand the numbers.

Solar is the same story. Larger vans can bolt on extra panels whenever they run short. When you’re working with limited roof space, efficiency isn’t optional—it’s everything. The habits and techniques in our solar guide have transformed setups that were struggling for power into ones with energy to spare, without spending a cent on new equipment.

Every guide we publish will follow the same philosophy: practical, tested, and built for Australian conditions. No fluff. No filler content designed to rank on search engines. Just the hard-won knowledge we wish someone had handed us before we set off.

Whether you’re planning your first big trip or refining a setup that’s already done serious kilometres, these guides will give you the foundation to travel with confidence.

Start with the essentials. Build from there.

Our Caravan Guides

To get this section underway, we have two guides available. They are, without doubt, two of the largest concerns for those undertaking off-grid adventures.

Our Ethos

These guides weren’t written from a desk. They were developed, tested and refined across 50,000km of Australian tracks—including a two-year lap of the continent—from the red dust of the Gibb to the winding roads of Tasmania. Every tip comes from hard-won experience running a real touring setup in genuine off-grid conditions. No theory. No fluff. Just practical knowledge that works when you’re 500 kilometres from the nearest auto electrician.

Coming Soon

New guides are currently in development stemming from our 2026 Shark Bay and Pilbara expedition—watch this space.