In their great wisdom, some of my beloved benefactors have bestowed upon me a beautiful bounty. Behold – a fluffy di fit for a king. From Las Vegas nontheless, so the king in question may well be Elvis himself.
Latest phase of Van setup: Nearly complete (in this photo that is – in real life, carpeting of boxes has been completed, and back window curtains have been moved to a more appropriate position). Still no mirror ball.
I’ll have to get around to doing some research on how to add a second battery sometime soon. Otherwise how will I be able to watch Doctor Who when I’m on long road trips?
So close…. damnit.
NOTE– To those of you who would mock my van, I’m referring to the odometer, not the speedometer.
After much thinking and planning over the last week or so, I spent my birthday – well, the whole weekend – going to Bunnings a lot, and continuing the conversion of the dirty unkempt smoker-stench-filled ex-Trady van I bought, into a clean and excitingly decorated Van, perfect for camping trips.
With the help of the Heidelberg crew – thanks guys :) we converted this:
to this:
The piece in the middle lifts out, changing it from a bed into two storage bins with hinged lids.
The story is unfolding in the gallery here, much more work to be done still.
Last weekend was Van‘s first adventure. We drove out to Alpine country, to the Mt Howitt carpark. There were lots of nice hilly twisty dusty rocky roads for me to relearn my manual driving skills on – that’s right, Van is not an automatic.
One kilometre of slogging up a steep spur later, we were on top of Crosscut Saw. Joy. Back to camp for dinner, we’d only covered 12km that day, but needed a good nights sleep before the epic the next day.