After a long tiring day we have finally collected our “Trayon” camper which we ordered almost a year ago! We left Busselton at 7.30 this morning and arrived home at 7.30 this evening! It has been ready since the middle of may but to be fair I had other things on my mind like life changing surgery! After several hiccups with the tray itself we are extremely pleased with the results, the quality of workmanship is excellent as are the materials used and so it has been worth the wait and the several visits to Bunbury to get it sorted. The only issue now is that the tray is a little wider than the camper which is not a bad thing at all but I need to get some brackets made in order to secure it properly which I will get ordered tomorrow after a conversation with my chief adviser in these things Chris Lacy for whom I am very greatful.
Another enjoyable thing which happened today was meeting Stefanie, we have been communicating by messenger for several months after making contact earlier this year and while we were close by collecting the camper it was a perfect opportunity to catch up. Stefanie is a good way further along our journey than me and it was a great opportunity to ask a few questions and compare notes as it were so over several coffees we got to know each other much better, Denise found a fellow pilot in Stefanie and was able to share some experiences and take a look at the aircraft that Stefanie and her partner are buying all being well, sounds very promising and I’m sure we will spend lots more time together over the coming months.
My recovery continues to be slow but sure with a few hiccups along the way, my GP has only given me enough painkillers to last for four weeks if I take two per day but we are in the uk for almost six so hopefully I can wean myself off them or at least drop to one per day or there could be some painful times ahead! I should be well on the way to recovery in another month, especially as we will have been in the uk for most of it and the good thing about that is that I won’t have the temptation to go and work on the house and risk doing too much, although I can see our trip being hectic at times as we have an enormous amount of people to catch up with while we are over there, people who have been really supportive so I want to see them personally to thank them for there support and love over the last nine six months or more. I continue to be overwhelmed by people’s kindness and am really looking forward to seeing them all. Even the flights aren’t stressing me this year as we are flying business class and if it’s anything like the ones from Philadelphia in June it will be a very pleasant experience indeed. I am hoping that I can get some decent sleep so when we arrive I am not tired out, stiff from sitting and worrying about what bugs we may have picked up while flying, the whole thing about being spaced out more must make it less likely that you pick something up and the last thing we need is to be laid up with colds when we get there! Hopefully we will be blessed by some reasonable weather while we are there, it would make such a difference and to get away from the cold and wet here for almost six weeks will be excellent, with a bit of luck and the fact that we will be almost a month into spring when we get back the weather here will be warmer and I will have recovered enough to make some progress with the house, time alone will tell!!!