It feels like just yesterday I sat here and typed up my first entry, and here I am, already a day behind on post #2. How time flies! I have had a successful week on the readiness front however, although not a great deal to report.

Issues sorted this week include a number of little items on the van. You know, the ones I mentioned last week that I was putting off. Well, we can strike them out now. DONE. Of course that doesn’t include cleaning it and having it packed. My plan is still to go through all of our belongings and figure out exactly what we will need, and what we don’t. I’m sure there is a pile of gear in there that we take for a holiday.

The big ticket item for the week though was selling the Patrol. We knew that had to go to make room (and money) for the new truck, and I honestly thought we were going to be stuck with it. I had visions of us fielding phone calls while we were away, from people wanting to by it, and us not being around to show it. Or worse still, not getting any interest in it at all. That’s our regular luck when we try and sell stuff. In any case, I decided to spend the $60.00 to list it on carsales.com.au and only a matter of hours later had my first enquiry, from a dealer all the way over in WA. Being from a dealer, I had some concerns that it was a scam or maybe I’d advertised it for a bit too cheap, but I ended up going through with the deal, and got more than what I had hoped for. Not only that, but they wanted a 7 seater. So the draws had to come out of the back, which I can off load for a tidy sum at a later stage and I can cancel the rego and recoup even more.  So with a few extra dollars in our pocket, and no need to organise a road worthy, it ended up being a pretty good deal. Not to mention one less thing to worry about.

As for the replacement truck, well that is still a few weeks away, so it looks like I’ll be burning up the miles on the treadly or shanks pony for the foreseeable future. I’ll just call it a pre-trip fitness kick. There’s not much I can really do to hurry the new ride along. I’ve only just today launched a couple of boxes of bits up to Sydney that need fitting to it, and in any case, it’s not until later in the week that I do my licence test to drive it. Fingers crossed I do well. It will cause quite a headache if I fail.

On the family front, all is mostly well. We are still working with the vets to find out what is wrong with Bethany. This is the most stressful thing going at the moment, and the sooner we get a treatment plan organised the better. She goes in for a biopsy of the liver this week, and we hope that will shed further light on the problems.

Until next time, stay safe, have fun and don’t forget to write.