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So you know how in the last post I mentioned that maybe I’d redesign the bus. Again.
Well it’s now almost five months later and I did just that! (and some other stuff…).
The bus has been redesigned, repeatedly. I even started work on putting that redesign into action too. A rarity for me to actually start a plan that I’ve spent months agonising over the tiniest details to try and make it perfect. But it’s cool! Way better use of space, I even made my lights work via Alexa too. Now I’ve disappeared down a rabbit hole of how to make bus automation a good way of helping to cure myself of anxiety and depression.
It sounds silly, but honestly, to wake up in the morning and have hot water ready to go so I can just jump in the shower? Game changing. Life changing. An alarm clock that turns my lights on and plays my favourite Spotify playlist? I’ve wanted that for years and never figured out a way to do it until now.
It makes life easier. It takes those hurdles that feel way too tall to jump and gives me a spring board before them. I’ve only got the lights & Spotify playlist working at the moment, but I’m so fucking excited about having hot water & an air heater that come on 40mins before my alarm clock goes off. I would literally be able to climb out of bed, straight into a shower and have a coffee ready to go by the time I get out the shower.
I know, I know. If I lived in a normal house then I’d be able to have that every day. But a normal house makes me so unbelievably sad. I love the freedom of being on the road. I love the adventure even when I’m finding it hard. I’d rather find it hard out on the road than hard in a house.
Anyway. I feel like I should do a full on life-update, but there’s absolutely no-one subscribed to this blog so maybe thats not necessary. Or maybe it is, just for posterity.
In a nutshell:
blew up my adventure 4x4 on Xmas day, spent the rest of the holidays in Wales with a hire car. Definitely fun, but I miss the 4x4. Don’t expect I’ll have her back and working until early next year.
Started refitting the bus
Continued with therapy
Not had a good start to the year with work, but it’ll pick up (I hope).
Took the bus abroad! Had a two week excursion down to Austria for work. Hilarious, nerve-wracking, enlightening. I am way less anxious about taking this thing distances.
Emptied all my worldly possessions into a shed. I own WAY too much stuff.
Started building my dream bus. She’s fucking lovely.
I think thats about it really. Have some photos. But first…
