We now have a bus in our back yard, stuff has just got real. But by real I mean we really want to just dive in and do everything right now. The real real was that we needed funds to renovate the bus and that meant we needed to get Continue Reading
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Bus Life – Here We Come
Recapping from the last post; I suggested to Fred “Why don’t we buy a bigger bus to live in”. That was all Fred needed and within a week Fred was driving to Maryborough in Western Victoria to inspect a 12metre, 2000 model, Hino RG 230. It was an ex school Continue Reading
Merlin – We’re on the Road!
We headed to Queensland on our maiden voyage, this trip went reasonably well, with only a few issues. One being the fridge stopped working after five days due to our battery power from the solar being insufficient to start the compressor. Fred worked this out quite quickly and wired the Continue Reading
Our first Motorhome
Around Easter 2014 Fred got motorhome envy and worked hard into talking me into taking the leap. It wasn’t that I didn’t want a motorhome, it was just that it was on our 10 year radar. But I couldn’t say no, and secretly I was as excited as all hell. Continue Reading
The Beginning
Hi, to introduce ourselves, we are Fred and Gayle De Costa. This is our story, sharing our bus adventures, from buying our first motorhome which was named Merlin to the fitout of our second motorhome which we affectionately called De Busta. Throughout these stories we will go over how we Continue Reading