Patience of plenty

Finally the bus is almost ready for departure. We had a custom flashing made for the wood stove, only problem is it took over 2 week for them to complete. They completed the flashing on Tuesday May 25th. On the 27th I went to get the stove pipe from Vaglio Stoves. Ryota came over to help yesturday install the pipe and flashing. Its raining today, but luckily we finished all the outside work and only need to complete the pipe from the top of the stove to the bottom of the round support. I looks crazy!!

A few more things need to be tied up before we depart. we need to put a fan under the stove to suck the propane fumes out the window. We need to install a battery isolator so that the engine alternator can charge the house battery as well as the engine batteries, but blocks the draw backward to that the engine batteries don't draw power from the house batteries when stopped. Also, the bus has some overdrive issue that we are having looked at on Monday 31st of may. So that puts our departure date for Tuesday or Wednesday if all goes well.

I would have never imagined that there was so much involved in creating a home on wheels. We have learned so much about creating a living space, lessons that will serve us well when we begin to build our own home.

Maybe go to farmers market today however its pretty miserable outside.