Rosie’s Reno
With a whirlwind of change and activity over the last couple of months – so many magazine deadlines prior to Christmas – I was just too busy to write our column in the last issue. Sorry about that.
My last column in Issue 73 had us heading north to Auckland in Rosie, our older 1998 Ford Transit four-berth motorhome, with plans for a bit of upgrade and renovation work to her power systems and interior décor. We had already spent around $10k on the exterior work and fix-ups so were happy she was water-tight with re-sealed joins and windows, rust proofed, serviced and ready to go anywhere. However, the interior and the outdated electrical systems and batteries needed an upgrade, and we definitely wanted solar power, bigger batteries and an inverter to run our devices.
We intend to rent Rosie on the ShareACamper rental site, as we do with our RocknRobyn Mitsubishi truck-based motorhome, but we also intend to use her ourselves for some of our shorter
