The Dream

7 years ago: we were driving back from a road trip to Cairns and thought it would be a cool idea to go on a big trip one day in a campervan or motorhome. I think we even looked at some vehicles on the net, but then the idea lay dormant for a few years...


18 months ago: we were driving back from cousin Keith's funeral in Bundaberg, we thought: we can't keep putting this trip off. So we looked again for vehicles...but still were not that serious. In January, 2010 we decided that we needed to commit to the idea and started searching for a slide-on, campervan, motorhome, caravan or bus. After a couple of months, we finally agreed upon the style of vehicle we wanted.


2 weeks ago: we said "the universe will send us the motorhome we want". A day later, Danny was looking at the Trading Post online. He found a Ford Transit Motorhome - $2750. Needs work or wrecking. Been sitting under a tree at Nerang. So a couple of hours later, were at Bruno's place at Nerang, looking at our future motorhome - Danny, Sammy and Indigo Velvet, our black lab x.




The motorhome was big - 20ft long. The motor worked and it had the sort of gypsy feel we wanted for our adventure. We stayed for about an hour and a half, chatting to Bruno: "It's the labour mate. It'd do up, but it's the labour." He said he'd chuck in a new bedroom window and a couple of lights if we bought it.


We went home very excited.

Should we buy it?