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Picture re Rudy and Irene recent trip to Eden in Victoria. Rudy and Irene are customers of ours, we recently sold them a new J2401 Jurgens Lunagazer. Both Rudy and Irene where great fun to deal with and we love the pictures of there most recent holiday. On the road againe in your new van what a great feeling. !!!!!!!

Ross O'Reilly Dealer principal and Eddie Wells Engineer from Jurgens story of there recent trip.

What a dream run! I woke up this morning eager to get an early start. Down to work to organise a few things, then check my travel belongings, ready for an 'enlightening trip'. We left Tullamarine airport heading for Adelaide, then a small plane flight to Cooper Pedy. Along the way I had the fortunate company of Jurgens Design Engineer, Eddie Wells, South African born but now lives in Oz, and loves it!

During the flight we exchanged yarns about each other's countries and the ever changing landscape that was passing beneath us. As we descended into Cooper Pedy's lunar countryside, we landed to the greeting of Terry Steel; one of Jurgens Partners, who was to take our return flight to Melbourne, but waiting in the car park was a film crew, two Jurgens Stargazer Off-Road Pop-Top caravans, coupled by 2 new Holden Captivas, both diesel, one manual and one auto, hmm! I wonder? Anyway, off we went into town to grab some lunch and have a chat with Phil, Mick & John, and our crew for the next few days and to hear where they had been up until Ed and I had arrived. We discussed a few routes, and the general direction was NE, so off we headed to the Oodnadatta. With that I was keen to go as far as possible with the Jurgens Stargazers in the time we had and to achieve as many hard kilometres as possible, with the understanding of Eds needs, (How the caravans perform under extreme duress). So out came the map, while the others drove on to William Creek. That night we camped at Coward Springs, a great stop over. With newly completed camp sites with camp fire wood suplied and to top it all off, a warm bore water Spa! All for $8.00. 'This should be the last night's stop over, we will need it, I'm sure!' Sowith my thoughts on doing a mile I suggested we hit the Strezelecki. The boys were keen just to see what comes and basically let us choose!

Well this is going to make for a hard and fast test for all, and at the end of the day, this is what we are really here for! This is not to see whether the Stargazer can go off-road as such, we already know that, but will it handle that constant and relantless pounding with dust that our Aussie outback can offer? This is what Eddie and I are here for, to test just that. With brekkie out of the way it was pack up time. For Eddie and myself it was, 'choose your weapons', the auto Captiva for Ed and the manual for myself.

We set off that morning to Maree with a short stop over, then off to Lyndurst to stock up on supplies,fuel and some local knowledge of road conditions from Adrian, the licensee of the local pub. Now we're ready to hit the Strezelecki track on our way to The Corner! By late afternoon we were just south of the Mooba gas fields waiting for the others to arrive. Phil, our cameraman, hood rode with me and was needing to stretch the llegs looking in the distance to see what was to come? Well, I must say, for me one of the best bits of udulating, unexpecting, but flowing dune roads in the country. The run eastward over the red sand dunes to Cameron's Corner befor dark! Very enjoyable! We all arrived in good time to meet the publican of the Cameron's Corner store, Bill, willing to offer a yarn with a good meal and ale to wash it down. After setting up camp near the dog fence, we paid Bill a visit and to our surprise a number of other travellers had joined him, all enjoying and sharing their experiences together, great stuff! It was a fun night for all I'm sure.

The next day started by waking up to brekkie in QLD, then to a photo shoot at Lt Cameron's survey point, of the 3 states all before morning smoko, Haa! Next,the drive through the Sturt National Park, with Mick our assistant Cameraman and Jack of all trades, was fun through the ever changing landscape and mix of wildlife feeding before it got too hot in the day. It was memorable. We arrived at Tibooburra to find phone service, to the delight of all wanting to make contact with family, 'Yes, we're still alive', I could here in the mutters, 'Priceless, isn't it', so after a bit of lunch and a refuel, Mick, Phil and I headed south to the west of Broken Hill. The road was rough and wide with some sealed sections for washouts and plenty of fine dust. So we pushed hard for some time, until realizing fuel was getting light-on. A slower approach was needed to reach camp before night fall, with Eddie and John now in a simialar boat it was steady as she goes. We all made camp to cook up a feast and get an early night, for tomorrow is a new challenge!

The sunrise over the escarpment of Broken Hill is something to see, 'So let's get happening boys!', a bit of a clean up on the Stargazers for more of Eds dust testing,some minor servicing and off through the Mitta Mitta plains and Silverton. Without a doubt this was a surprise for all; the camera guys had fallen in love and so they should, this is really something to see! Most of the morning was taken up filming photos shots, but now it's time to do a mile so into Broken Hill to restock and refuel. Menindee, here we come! This is the final dust and battering test! Through the Lakes and down to Pooncarie, running past the Mungo National Park & heading to the Murray River. Eddie, after earlier swapping cars with me, now in the manual, is ready for the final leg and in fine form for the run south, over the cattle grids, so we pushed as hard as needed for the home run to see what would happen. As we came closer to the end of our towing test, I can say that there were times that for only knowing, you could forget the Stargazer was behind you.

A daily log was kept for each Stargazer so that anything that anyone of us may have seen or experienced had made a note of, but to speak of anything that was bad, no! Just more in the way of changes to suit the ways of our Aussie thinking? (By the way, the Captiva was a surprise, really! With what we asked of it.)

Our final night finished at Boundary Bend 'Yungra' Home Stead, a Paddle Steamed trading port in the late 1800's, just south of Robyn Vale, with nearly 2 mls of the mighty Murray River, this is the Malley country at its best, so I treated the guys to some of its charm and beauty, thanks to my life long friend Johnno, whose family have owned Yungara for ever, so to speak. As I set camp for the guys, they feel in ore of the Murray, with a camp fire and a near full moonlight, we sat back in our chairs to enjoy the surrounds and talk of our dream run and the fantastic performance of both van and car. For Eddie and I it was a sealing of what we already knew, the Stargazer was going to be something really different! It was a summary of what needs attention and a sealing of what we already knew.

Jurgens Stargazer "Brilliant!"

Thanks to all!! Rosco.