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We have owned our car trailer for about 19 years and it has been very handy for us and for plenty of mates but it is now time to bring it along for the ride, to be more precise, to carry our ride, our Suzuki Jimny. Well Fred being so Continue Reading

We said our goodbyes to “Merlin” last week. He was a real trooper and a fabulous initation into bus life. So much so that we are preparing for FTT (Full Time Travel), life on the road, being on perpetual holidays (you get the idea) renovating “De Busta” our 53 seater Continue Reading

So as I write this the countdown sits at 454 days to our original final date to be on the road. This date is significant to us being 31 March 2022, our 20th wedding anniversary. To be honest we have our fingers crossed that we will be organised earlier and Continue Reading

Background – I found this Utube video of a guy who whacked up a sofa in minutes from a few pieces of plywood, glue and a saw. At that moment I was feeling empowered – I can do this, it will be my bit of the bus, Fred is so Continue Reading

Well, I’ve been a bit quiet of late as we haven’t been working on De Busta.  We got to the stage that we needed to source more funds to continue as we had exhausted most of the lower cost items leaving the big daddies like batteries, levelers, solar panels etc. Continue Reading

In a covid free life we would be in Europe cycling across the country right now.  But it is 2020, the year of the not going anywhere.  The upside of this is we now have an abundance of holidays to use  plus we get to work on the bus.  The Continue Reading

With COVID there is a heavy demand on the postal/delivery services.  A big shout out to all those guys and gals who have been working tirelessly for months now supporting us all by bringing all our goodies directly to our door. Well we scored big this week with deliveries arriving Continue Reading

With the seats out, we marked out on the floor our designs.  We stuck tape to the floor to visualise our design, pulled, it up again to move and reposition.  This happened a few times as we tossed ideas around until we eventually decided on our final design.  Over the Continue Reading

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

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