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Priorities. Since picking up our newest member of the family - Izzy, we have been scheming and dreaming of how we are going to make her our own. I'm thinking of dream catchers hanging from the ceilings, a hammock and hippy furniture coverings, while Benny is thinking of how to get the bus battery to charge to the house batteries and putting in a inverter which would allow us to access the 240V all the time. Only a subtle difference there! But before we did any of that we settled on what we thought is priority, which came to: hitting up Kmart for essential items such as plates and cups etc. and purchasing a second gas bottle. Seems simple. A second gas bottle gives us peace of mind as if we were to run out of gas, it would mean losing the fridge / freezer, and hot water. Plus we would have to get to a local town ASAP to refill. Hot water - not essential, but the fridge / freezer wouldn't be ideal when they are filled with delicious food. Seems simple still. Packing day. We are all at loading stations, packing up the bus to head away .... quote Benny. "Um there is nowhere to put this gas bottle, I think we will put it on the roof." No longer seems simple. At this point, Benny is on the roof of the bus with the gas bottle. I've headed straight to the worst conclusion, imagining this gas bottle falling off the roof, going straight through the car behind's windscreen and killing whoever is in the front seat of that car. Wooh! Happy holidays. Thankfully this option was ruled out, and the situation solved with a bit of old fashion Kiwi ingenunity and thinking on the spot. Now we have a beautiful purpose built little spot for our second gas bottle to sit, and it works just fine. Only catch is it is in the radiator compartment; time will tell how this works out for us! We got to reep the rewards of our second gas bottle and all that hard installation work when we had just parked up for the night at Lake Waikeremoana, about 50km into a 105km gravel road (that's another story) and we ran out of gas. Simple. Change over the gas bottles and boom we have gas again. Success. And oh so simple.
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