As the number of kids to take away has dwindled to one (some working and some no interest) it was time to investigate the possibility of upgrading the expanda. Put it on Gumtree to gauge interest and it was sold, paid for and delivered to the new owner in a day. Mmmm the wife said, we have our Gibb River Road/Northern Adventure holiday planned and booked for July/August and you have sold the van. Well I didn't think it was going to sell that quickly so we best have a look at what is out there I replied . We thought long and hard about a 19.5? Starcraft and spent a while in one at Caravanland to get a feel for a larger van and drove the hour to Mandurah to look at a 19.5 Kokoda. Did a lot of research and thinking and in the end we were offered a good deal on a new 20.6 Tribute 2 Kokoda. No more climbing over each other and doing the trek to the toilets, means I can have liquid refreshments later than 6pm like a grown up
Will convert the dinette lounge to a bed similar to what we had in the expanda and a few mods that I did to the old van that I learnt from here.
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Installed a 2000W inverter with a connected to a dedicated power GPO via a Residual Voltage Device. The Nespresso machine is a permanent fixture in the van. The 220W folding solar panel that I bought for the panda was way to big to be comfortably portable so I decontructed it and the resulting two 110W panels have joined the 150W that came with the van on the roof.
Many great times were had in the expanda and was sad to see it go as it was our first van but looking forward to new adventures in the new van. Will still be trawling through here to get the great ideas that people have and blatantly copy them.
Will convert the dinette lounge to a bed similar to what we had in the expanda and a few mods that I did to the old van that I learnt from here.
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Installed a 2000W inverter with a connected to a dedicated power GPO via a Residual Voltage Device. The Nespresso machine is a permanent fixture in the van. The 220W folding solar panel that I bought for the panda was way to big to be comfortably portable so I decontructed it and the resulting two 110W panels have joined the 150W that came with the van on the roof.
Many great times were had in the expanda and was sad to see it go as it was our first van but looking forward to new adventures in the new van. Will still be trawling through here to get the great ideas that people have and blatantly copy them.