It’s been some time since we posted about the bus (OurTime) conversion.

Once I started cleaning up the rust, I was quite shocked to discover more and more of it. I couldn’t just let it go so ended up spending about 5 months on the body cutting out rust and making up new frames where needed.
It was exhausting and I wasn’t quite sure if it was ever going to end!

Very thankfully, it’s all done now. I feel it was well worth my time and effort as I simply couldn’t have driven around in it knowing what was underneath.

It’s been a really busy few months as I finally got to the inside of the bus and have done things like lined the inside roof and dash.
I’ve started putting together the kitchen cupboards.

So here is what we have done so far:

Here is a photo of the end of the cupboard, you can see where the bowl of the sink is underneath. The cut out above the Microwave is where the Induction cooktop is going to go, it will have a door on the top of it so that the bench will be all in one long piece.
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This is pretty impressive. This video show’s you how to make a great little portable stove from stuff you probably have laying around your house! It’s perfect for camping, backpacking, and power outages.

It’s very MacGyver ish!

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I’ve just read a good review of the TomTom ONE GPS unit.

It gets a 4.5 /5 star rating which is pretty good. It will be hard to go past buying a TomTom although the Navman units are pretty good as well.
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We have been waiting to find out more about the much hyped iPhone which has finally been released in Australia.

With our plan to travel around Australia within the next 2 years, GPS will be an important addition to the bus. We are more or less settled on buying something along the lines of TomTom but wanted to see if we could kill two birds with one stone and have a mobile along with a GPS.
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