After all the wondering

The Mobile Condominium is now a reality. So here are some brief facts from the "Maiden Voyage" home.
Tows like a dream. The van just sat behind us no matter what speed or road condition we experienced (we actually went to 115 in some places because the travel was so smooth and the speed just crept up without effort and then a regular guage check made us realise what we were achieving).
Even narrower roads meant that with appropriate speed and good mirrors we had great vision of where we were positioned on the road and the van followed. We dropped the left wheels off the sealed road onto the dirt around Wellington way and even with the sharp drop off the van was very stable and just followed back behind us at the next smooth opportunity to regain the sealed surface.
The 350 rated LDH system was a great help on the highway, the larger brakes (12" I think) with the Prodigy controller made any braking just so easy. Particularly in the last 40 or so K where we have 80k roads and about 20-30 sets of traffic lights through Adelaides northern suburbs.
Economy with our base 4.2L 1HZ 80 series diesel was 4.39K/L (12.34M/G for us multi sytem talented older folk) as average for whole trip of 2645K even coping with the Great Divide, lesser ranges and 1.5days of head winds from Narrandera to Adelaide. Our route was BT Factory - Forest Glen - Gold Coast - Moree - Wellington - Canowindra - Cowra - Yass - ACT - Yass - Wagga - Mildura - Renmark - Blanchetown - Adelaide.
We experienced severe O/N electrical & HEAVY rain storms at Moree, Wellington & Hay with rain in the ACT. Thus we were so happy to be in the van with dry comfortable facilities to rest, eat & sleep. We would have been absolutely soaked in our swag/camp style.
There was a "seamless" switching from on site power to 12VDC & inverted 240VAC at Wellington when one VERY localised lightning strike took out the van park power!
Now we have to use the lovely comfortable on a few excursions ex Adelaide to really appreciate our home away from home.
Had a bit of a play on two wheel track through river flat "forest" areas whilst exitting the O/N stop about 11 K west of Hay. The van tracked along the winding way through the trees very easily. So we also want to get out on some dirt road, back track journeying as well.
So there it is for what it is worth. More to come later.
Cheers - Ian & Sally