Six month check-up

We've been on the road for just over six months now.

Has it been what we expected? Well, no.

Has it been amazing anyway? Absolutely.

Of course, it didn't start out quite the way we planned - the late delivery and unfinished state of the bus saw to that. We thought we'd be all relaxed and in the swing of things before we started our first job; instead we turned up at Treasure Island late on Christmas Day and started work at 7am on Boxing Day.

We've done all sorts of different work since then, and travelled a fair bit of the North Island. Financially, it would have been good to have more work, but we made a conscious decision to not work February and March so we could get some of the major issues with the bus finished/repaired. A lot of Craig's spare time is still filled with working on the bus; finishing, fixing, tweaking.

This has, in some perverse way, helped us become more relaxed. There's no point in ranting and raving about things we can't change, we just have to sort them out as best we can. This lifestyle isn't orderly and predictable, but that's not a bad thing.

It may not be what we expected, but we are loving our life. We are, indeed, On Happy Ground.