The Trip

We are celebrating something orange (which is the national colour of the Netherlands): the painting of our Kombi is finally completed and GOD, she looks nice! The body is ready to come home where we can start rebuilding the bus. Our biggest point of concerns is that we will have to be very careful transporting the body back to our garage without damaging it! 

Luckily the distance between the spay painter and Hazel Armstrong’s home is not more than one kilometre. Still, I was amazed how much energy it costed to transport this massive piece of steel on castor wheels over cobble stones and trying to cross a major intersection. Basically, it felt like pushing around a giant shopping trolley!

With more than enough support we guided Hazel back to her home location. A distance that could not have been any longer as the rubber castor wheel tires crumbled when we hit the last curb; the giant ovens at the spay painter totally dried out the tiny rubber tires!

To make it official we had a bottle of champagne waiting at arrival :-) Although some might have thought differently, we were absolutely not going to smash this bottle on the front of my bus... It was a nice and enjoyable evening; we even managed to get the cable loom installed after finishing a bottle of champagne...