What a huge week! Last week when I left off, we were dropping the truck in for the roadworthy. Indeed we did and we are happy to report that there was nothing we didn’t anticipate. We didn’t envisage, or hoped with our fingers crossed, that there wouldn’t be much wrong Continue Reading
Blog 7 – Looking Forward, Looking Back
With the end of 2023 upon us and the beginning of the new year tomorrow, I thought I would reflect on where we are up to right now and what is needed for us to hit the road in our new rig next year. We started the year in Victoria Continue Reading
Blog 6 – Picking up the Panels
So great news our panels are ready much earlier than advised. Well great yes and no! Because we didn’t think we were getting them until February at the earliest, we had re-arranged our original building and ordering plans. This meant that we didn’t order our water and waste water tanks Continue Reading
BUILDING THE STEPS AND ADDING STORAGE BOXES TO THE UNDERBODY
While I was flitting off to Melbourne for 10 days to catch up with the kid’s and attend the work party (very important stuff and a good time had), Fred soldiered on with the build. What a trooper! While the subframe and chassis are still open and easily accessible, we Continue Reading
Blog 4 – Let’s Go Shopping!
Well a girl loves a good shop! Actually I don’t, in fact it’s one of my least favourite things but I gotta say shopping for your new home is very satisfying. Expensive, but at least you feel like you are ticking things off the list and you know me and Continue Reading
De Fabrication – Constructing the Subframe
Well we’ve made it to blog number 3 – manufacturing and fitting the subframe to De Trucksta. This is Fred’s forte so he got to planning the construction. Steel sizes, amounts to order, measurements not to mention accounting for the bend in the chassis. Yep there is a bend in Continue Reading
Building an Expedition Vehicle – Where do we Start?
Now we are back in Rockhampton with De Trucksta, it’s time to get this show on the road. Our hope is to have him complete and ready to roll by June 2024 as we have signed up to volunteer at the Big Red Bash again. There is so much Continue Reading
BIG CHANGES ON THE HORIZON
Hey everyone, it’s been way too long since I blogged and I have no good excuse as to why. It’s time to update you all on what we have been doing, what we are up to now and about our future plans………….. I’ll start with the beginning of the year Continue Reading
It’s Official – We are on the Road!
On Tuesday 15th March 2022, 2 years after purchasing our bus, with renovations basically complete we drove away from our block for the last time. The block has been sold, another era to lock away in the memory banks. We always set ourselves a deadline of March 31st 2022 and Continue Reading
Getting Closer to Full Time Travels
Lockdown rules lifted so it gave us the opportunity to hold a garage sale. Now I can’t lie it wasn’t the biggest success ever but we managed to reduce our surplus a bit and anything is a bonus. We still have heaps to get rid of one way or another. Continue Reading