Our new home

After a couple of days searching and many kilometres travelled we have bought a caravan. It didn't take us long to work out what we wanted so it was then a matter of finding it. On Friday and Saturday we visited five caravan sale yards, from Penrith to South Sydney, and looked at a couple of private sales and that gave us a short list of two. One of the yards had a caravan coming in and we got a phone call to say the layout was what were looking for so this morning we went back out to Penrith and decided that van was indeed what we wanted.


After negotiating changes to riding height, the addition of a battery pack with connection to our vehicle's charging system and a few other bits and pieces, we signed the deal. Hopefully it will be ready for us to collect on Thursday.

In the meantime we have to be reunited with the truck. This might happen on Monday, all going well. The Australian Quarantine Services have decided that it needs to be steam cleaned, even though this was done in Auckland! I can't say we are happy with this as we expected that NZ would know what Aus required and it would have been done properly in Auckland, but we are at the mercy of the authorities so have to accept the situation (all at our expense of course). After the cleaning has been done we will have to take it for a mechanical check and then get a temporary registration, fingers crossed these go without any issues.