Van Purchase

17th July
The finance came through yesterday and all was OK for us to start are looking in earnest. On checking a couple of sites I had studied before, I had found a van that would suit us down to the ground, but, wouldn’t you know it. They had a holding deposit on same. Well on looking this time it appeared to be on the market again. It is a Jayco 24ft6in Heritage 2005 Great news now that we had money lined up. E-mails were sent back and forth and it seemed as thought every thing was going very well. Unfortunately, when we took in to account that there was no annex walls and we had to get the van up to Cairns included in the loan, we found it was out of reach. I sent an e-mail to the sales guy Peter and explained that we had only X amount and thanked him for his efforts and help but Karma is Karma and we were not meant to have the van. To cut a long story short Peter spoke to his boss and they agreed to come to terms with us. All we had to do was have a look at the van.
Again to the rescue came our new friend Kym, from
“No Boundaries” ( http://www.noboundaries.com.au/ ). He agreed to go and have an unbiased inspection of the van on our behalf. This saved either Fae or myself the time and expense of a trip to Brisbane. The report came back favourable and honest, so the purchase is going ahead. I think Peter was a little taken aback by Kym’s professional approach, but after I spoke to him and told him of Kym’s report and that Kym found Peter quite a likable guy he changed his mind!
Well guys the deposit has been paid and the annex is in the process. It looks like we shall have the van up here with in four weeks. Yahooooo! I would like to highly recommend City RV Centre, Loganholme Q’ld. As a reputable dealer from the professional way they have helped and handled our purchase.


20th July
We went and said G’day to Maria at the beautiful Lake Placid caravan park to day. We were interested in the park for a while now as on every occasion we have visited it has seemed quite and friendly. Maria sent us on our way with a plan of the park and a texta pen to mark any site we may be interested in. There are several sites booked for years in advance (says volumes about the park) and Maria is very protective of her guests. We made a decision on our site and it was available. A large site with room to move, under nice shade trees Great! Fae was even starting to organise where things would go.
The van park is at the end of a small road to Lake Placid. A very leafy park with updated amenities and a beaut community kitchen and pool, the staff could not be friendlier or more helpful if they tried. Even putting your van on site for you if you don’t trust your self. That’s service with a smile.
http://www.lakeplacidtouristpark.com/index this link should get you there if you are up this way.
OK that’s all for today, I will update as it happens so you that are interested can “follow our story”.

The Dream Continues

12th July

Hi everyone.
Well the dream continues, a lot of it is very up hill though. Fae’s out look on life keeps me on the straight and narrow. We had an accident, or rather incident, with our car the other day. We were on our way out to do a bit of window shopping, as you do. We were nearly hit by a bus coming out on our left. After a toot on the horn all was forgotten until a few minutes down the road when the same bus ran us off the road after colliding with the side of our car. Talk about road rage! At this point in time I believe the police are looking at charging him with dangerous driving. The big thing is we are both all right, not so for Fae’s pride and joy. It went into the repair shop today so all will be ready when our new vehicle finally arrives, yes we have been told a date. The end of the month for sure!!! I know we have been giving the sales guy a hard time but he has been very good to us.
We are still looking at vans and we finally came to the conclusion that we can not afford a new van. Bugger. We have seen a couple of very good second hand ones that will do nicely and we have applied to get a pre approved loan so we can be a little flexible. I can’t wait to get into the van and start our new adventure. I realise that not much will change as we still have to keep our positions for another couple of years whilst we pay off our car and van but I still can’t wait. We visited the van park we want to go into the other day to get an idea of how it will be during the busy period. We were very happy to see the very friendly people enjoying life. The vast majority of the people staying at the park were grey nomad types and very friendly and quick to say Hi or g’day. Nearly all were getting ready for an early dinner and the wine was out and the drinks flags up!!
Well this is all for now until we hear re finance, finger crossed everybody please!