"This is the story of the beginning of the rest of our lives."
It all started one day in October 2006. We were in the process of planning our future and selling our current property. We were going to purchase a 10 acre block to build on and enable our son Peter, to reside and look after it while we went travelling. Our daughter Jaylene, had already left home and was living in Melbourne. Six months later (July 2007), Peter dropped a bombshell and decided to leave home and head for the big smoke of Melbourne to continue his apprenticeship. At this time, we had just sold our current property and were about to sign for that 10 acre block. But with all the red tape and crap involved in building again, Steve came home one day with an alternative idea. He said "I have a way we can do it, lets forget the block and buy a 40ft bus and disappear". It took a moment for what he said to sink in, but after toying with the idea for about an hour, we went into action starting to research buying a bus already decked out or to buy a shell and deck it out ourselves. The decision was easy - to deck it out ourselves would take too long.
Settlement of our current property finally took place in October 2007. All this time we had been searching the web, magazines and papers, looking for the right bus. We had looked at a few in Victoria, then Steve flew up to Queensland to have a look at some more and came back with some
photos of one that he said "this is it".It all started one day in October 2006. We were in the process of planning our future and selling our current property. We were going to purchase a 10 acre block to build on and enable our son Peter, to reside and look after it while we went travelling. Our daughter Jaylene, had already left home and was living in Melbourne. Six months later (July 2007), Peter dropped a bombshell and decided to leave home and head for the big smoke of Melbourne to continue his apprenticeship. At this time, we had just sold our current property and were about to sign for that 10 acre block. But with all the red tape and crap involved in building again, Steve came home one day with an alternative idea. He said "I have a way we can do it, lets forget the block and buy a 40ft bus and disappear". It took a moment for what he said to sink in, but after toying with the idea for about an hour, we went into action starting to research buying a bus already decked out or to buy a shell and deck it out ourselves. The decision was easy - to deck it out ourselves would take too long.
Settlement of our current property finally took place in October 2007. All this time we had been searching the web, magazines and papers, looking for the right bus. We had looked at a few in Victoria, then Steve flew up to Queensland to have a look at some more and came back with some
We flew up to Esk in Queensland to buy our bus in November 2007. It is now June 2008 and after six months of a few modifications like extra water tanks, A Frame tow hitch and braking system, rear view camera, a modernisation of the decor and christening the bus with the new name "SPUR", we are nearly ready to head off.
"SPUR" - the name was derived from the movie "The Man from Snowy River". Spur was the brother who lived a life in search of gold and his simple dreams - that's us.
1 comment:
Well guys - congratulations on "just doing it" - wish you all the best in the travels and hopefully will catch up with you at some stage - take care.
cheers Mich
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