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Blog 18 – It’s a Roof Rack kind of Week

Posted on April 7, 2024April 7, 2024 by gayle.decosta

This week has been much different to last, with it raining most of the week, I picked up a crappy virus and Fred has worked night shifts.  When thinking about the blog and considering what I’d chat about this week, I was thinking there wasn’t much to say but in Continue Reading

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Blog 17 – Ticking Boxes

Posted on April 1, 2024April 1, 2024 by gayle.decosta

Firstly, Happy Birthday Freddy!  Tomorrow marks his last revolution around the sun in his fifties.  This hasn’t slowed him down though! What a productive week we have had, finishing off bits and pieces and tackling some bigger projects. The last mudguard has been attached, “Back Rack Man’s” lights are wired, Continue Reading

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Blog 16 – Central Tyre Inflation System

Posted on March 25, 2024March 29, 2024 by gayle.decosta

I have mentioned in previous blogs that we purchased a Central Tyre Inflation System for De Trucksta and promised that I would dedicate a blog to it and the installation.  With this type of vehicle we decided that it was a no brainer to allocate some extra dollars for this Continue Reading

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Blog 15 – We Have a Back Rack

Posted on March 17, 2024March 17, 2024 by gayle.decosta

It’s been another week ticking boxes.  Fred is working tirelessly, spending every moment he is not at work on the truck.  He has been solely responsible for everything we have done so far.   It’s not just the labour but also his ability to plan all of this in his Continue Reading

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Blog 14 – The Beginnings of Power

Posted on March 10, 2024March 10, 2024 by gayle.decosta

It has been quite a bitsa week – bits of this and bits of that with a few major things as well.  Sometimes we reflect on the week just gone and think we don’t seem to have achieved much but then I begin to list it and realise that things Continue Reading

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Blog 13 – We Now Have a Habitat Box

Posted on March 3, 2024March 3, 2024 by gayle.decosta

I left you last week with 3 of the 4 walls up.  Before we can put the back wall in, we cut a whole in the passenger side wall to allow access to the inside of the box.  This will be where the door will be fitted but at this Continue Reading

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Blog 12 – False Floor Prep

Posted on February 26, 2024February 26, 2024 by gayle.decosta

It’s been a couple of weeks since my last blog and a lot has been going on.  I flew to Melbourne and spent a week visiting the kids and a real highlight was having a 2 night sleepover with the grandy, Lincoln.  Ol’ Grammy G and Lincoln were left to Continue Reading

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Blog 11 – The First Floor Is On!

Posted on February 6, 2024February 6, 2024 by gayle.decosta

We’ve had another steady week chipping away at various jobs.   On Tuesday we travelled down to Brisbane to pick up our shower. What a day for it, it poured rain most of the day and Brisbane had record rainfall.  We weren’t to be deterred though and were lucky enough Continue Reading

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Blog 10 – Behind the Scenes

Posted on January 29, 2024January 29, 2024 by gayle.decosta

I was hoping to share pictures of our first floor down but unfortunately that didn’t come to fruition.    This was disappointing, particularly to me, but Fred, being Fred just took it in his stride.  It didn’t mean tools down though, instead we worked away on bits of this and Continue Reading

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Blog 9 – The Tanks Arrived!

Posted on January 21, 2024January 21, 2024 by gayle.decosta

The panels had arrived early so we were at the stage where we were waiting on the water tanks.  We wanted to install the grey and black tanks in the under body to allow us to put the first floor on.  There was just one problem, the tanks were still Continue Reading

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Fred and Gayle love to get away camping.  Tents progressed to a Motorhome, aka Merlin, and they loved it so much that they are now renovating a retired school bus to live full time on the road. Meet De Busta!

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