I have just come back from an 8 day long holiday road trip with my wife and 6 children. During the week we travel 2135 kilometres and most of these kilometres were done on the first and last days. Both these days involved early starts and 14 hour driving days in our Toyota Hilux Commuter bus. The disadvantage of living in the isolated countryside of Northern NSW is that towns and toilets are far and few between. After years of stopping behind trees and holding on till you almost burst I decided that this trip I was going to be prepared.
I went out and bought a 10 litre Campmaster Portable Toilet (CM6010) from our local Big W. At first I believed that and this would be the first time that no one in the bus would have a sudden and pressing need for a toilet stop in the middle of no where. However, in my family there are 6 children aged from 6 month old to 10 years old so within the first couple of hours the toilet had got a workout.
Not having to stop at places with toilets meant that we could stop at rest areas and parks saving us money that would have been wasted at service stations buying dodgy pies and overprices chocolate bars.
The toilet was kept in the bus the whole week and used regularly by my toilet training toddlers who for some reason refuse to use public toilets.
I emptied the waste tank a couple of times during the trip. I was a bit dubious about having to purchase top tank rinse and tank sanitiser but when it came to emptying the waste tank they proved their worth.
The toilet worked well and only leaked when one of the children unscrewed the fresh water cap while we were driving through hilly terrain.
With plans for a lot more road trips in the near future this toilet will definetly be on the packing list.
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