Sunday 28/08/16, howling wind & lots of rain outside.
By Will.
The Art of Doing Nothing, seems like Jen & I aren't very good at it. While Jenny recovers I've found myself not doing very much. Feeling quite restless at the moment, but stuck in a "holding pattern" for now. At least it's good for clearing the mind.
Lots of morning lay-ins & morning coffees, get them in now as in the future we'll be on the road & busy ? (Probably can only get Chai Tea in India).
I have tackled a few small projects, but really we are just sitting around & waiting:
- For the India motorbike adventure, 6 weeks to go !
- The Reno House to come together, at least another 4 months.. argh, probably longer.
- New patio at the investment house (where we are currently living) to commence so the front is improved for selling. Who knows, received the building permit last Friday.
- SMSF to be finalised & come under our control.
- Jenny to recover enough for long term travel, minimum of 3 more weeks before being ready to travel.
Behind the scenes we have been helping family with their own issues & problems.
Finally I get my act together & install an 80 watt solar panel on our Kombi Camper.
It took 1 & half hours to install & was quite straight forward.
The company I was going to purchase the hardware through on the Internet (based in Queensland) were going to add GST tax & freight onto the initial purchase price, so I decided to shop around locally & bought the above plus a portable 120w folding portable solar panel for about $820, from Battery Force on Pinjarra Rd. Approximately $400 less then the Queensland internet company.
A snug fit onto the Rhino Racks (as planned, ages ago).
"Yeah, it's alive", 20 amp solar power regulator. Connect the solar panel to the regulator, then connect to the Kombi auxiliary "house" 12v battery. Very basic regulator unit ($75) Red LED equals charging, Orange, nearly there, Green, fully charged & switched off.
Oh did I mention I got a flat tyre during last weekends "Boys Trip", down south ! As it turns out I staked both the front & rear driver side tyres, likely at the same time....ouch, so Peel Tyre Serviced fixed them for me during the past week. Only about 15000kms of tread left on these Maxxis AT tyres, I've done about 50000kms on them so not to bad. Time to plan for the next ones.
It may not look it in this photo, but the weather has set the Reno House project back by at least one month.
Quarter of the original roof tiles are off. Yesterday (Saturday) Gary our neighbour called and said the blue tarp had come adrift in the 40km/h winds & was flapping everywhere. Hayden my son was visiting at the time so we headed over & with the help from Chris & Reece the builders, secured it again. Some ceiling damage inside.
Jenny retrieved the fit ball out of the shed so she can do some gentle abdominal exercises, to aid her recovery.
We have selected all of the bathroom/kitchen fittings, taps, toilets, basins, etc. Now to figure out the tiles.
6 month Indian Visas have arrived, by the time we get over there we'll have 4.5 months remaining. You never know, if we are enjoying ourselves we may stay a bit longer, then the planned 2 months. We have paid extra for a flexible return airline ticket, with Singapore Airlines.
Take care you lot :-)
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