7th July 2015
All set to go…….
We’ve been at Amber Park Camping Ground in Christchurch now
for six nights, and tomorrow we head off. It will be the first time for Dean to
tow the caravan and we plan a gentle amble down to Ashburton (one hour away)
for the first day’s travelling, the start of our ‘on-the-road’ adventures. As a friend said at the weekend, we have invested in 'wheel estate'.
Last week was frantic, and we are glad to have it behind us.
Far too much ‘stuff’ and far too many jobs left to the last minute. Anyone
about to move learn from us! Deal with things earlier, and get rid of ‘stuff’.
Ha, easier said than done.
Our storage unit is stuffed full and I wonder, when we come
back will we be appalled at the rubbish we have thought important enough to
store? Probably, but not knowing what sort of house we will come back to, we do
tend to hang on to things in case they will be right for the next house. Time
will tell.
Thanks to the wonderful guys at UK Caravans, Peter and
Bruce, we feel ready to hit the road. This morning Peter came to show us how to
erect the awning, and it will be fun when we have it up for real in Oamaru in a
few days time.
The caravan is warm and cosy and in spite of a weather
forecast of sleet and maybe snow to low levels, we hope to be fine. We will
stop in Ashburton until the bad weather has moved through and then carry on.
(Sorry for the lack of photos. Just spent an hour trying to upload and add two photos, but the laptop is exceedingly slow and the upload keeps cutting out at various stages. Photos next time.......There has been hail overnight, and the forecast is not great, but we will keep an eye out and be careful.)
(Sorry for the lack of photos. Just spent an hour trying to upload and add two photos, but the laptop is exceedingly slow and the upload keeps cutting out at various stages. Photos next time.......There has been hail overnight, and the forecast is not great, but we will keep an eye out and be careful.)
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