Wooo Hooo!

Happy birthday Caleb! Swizzy 17!

It’s been eventful since we last spoke. Caleb and Ethan and I went with My niece Morgan (who won the tickets!) to the Arrogant Worms concert in Airdrie. It was a blast!
The kids have played with cousins, and been in the mud, the snow, and all manner of dirt. We have been trying to stay out of Grammies way, but not succeeding very well since we have been living in her house. But we do have some news.

Well, it finally happened.

February 26, according to the stamp on the import papers, I brought the bus across the Sweetgrass/Coutts border crossing.
April 25, nearly two months later, I took the inspection report to AMA registries, and the Rubicon was assigned Alberta plate ZTZ 138.
It has been declared fit, and ready for the road (Praise God!!), albeit at 180% of the estimated repair price.

Just a few items to attend to before it’s ready to go south:
1- Webasto (the diesel heater for our heat and hot water) is malfunctioning. It will run fine for a while, and then quit working and drip diesel out the exhaust pipe. It was in to be fixed on thursday, but they seem to have missed something. The service manager at Nortrux seems to have diagnosed the problem, and is looking for parts. We’ll know more on Monday.
2 - Interconnect between the coach (the bus) and the House (the inside house of the bus) batteries doesn’t work, so the batteries for the house only charge off the generator, or if you are plugged in, but not when we drive, rather annoying to have to run the generator when you have loads of excess power from a 270amp alternator doing nothing.
3 - Bunks - we have the mattresses, and the frames, so we need to install our extra two bunks in the bus, so everyone has a place to sleep.
4 - Trailer needs to be cleaned, and have the flooring laid in it so we can list it for sale.
5 - We need to get everything we need into the bus, and everything in its place.

We’ll keep you posted (hopefully a bit more frequently than we have been;-)

In the meantime, here's a short clip of our work towards our first podcast: