The Motor now looks and runs like new and the only person who has 100% faith in us is our mechanic: Max Brugger, who says the van make the trip 3 times over!
Electricity: We built in a second
battery for all our labour saving devices e.g.:
dishwasher, microwave, washing machine... (in our
dreams). It's actually for all those little things that
alone only need a small amount of electricity, but used
all together drain your battery and make you wish you'd used a magazine
to fan your face instead of the 3-Speed oscillating
ventilator.
Technical instruments: To bring Lucky
Luke into the 20th Century just in time for the 21st we
added a few clever gadgets to our list of
"necessities". So we now have a
super-modern-high-tech van featuring a swivelling
dashboard illuminating compass, an outside/inside digital
thermometer and a plug into the cigarette lighter alarm
system. Not bad for an old VW Camper.
Emergencies: The strange metal and
wooden boxes situated left and right on the back of the
roof rack could be mistaken for rather large speakers for
blasting the neighbours with or for suitcases or ears?
But the have in fact a better purpose in life. They house
the emergency water and petrol cans (not to be confused
with one and other). So that hopefully we won't be
stranded in some bleak and barren spot with only petrol
to drink.
Also fitting into the category "emergency" is
the bull/roo bar (not actually fitted yet) which will
hopefully accompany us our travels and fend off any
unwanted animals/objects/people.
Shark: The shark on our roof has a
number of uses. First and probably most important is it's
ability to scare Pakistani truck drivers into getting
onto their side of the road (hopefully!)
It's also quite handy for storing all the things that are
necessary for such a trip, i.e.: 270 jars of baby food,
780 Nappies etc.
And of course it's a great advert for this web-site!
