Batteries

Warren has been looking on-line for batteries for the caravan. Once we have some, they will enable to caravan's fridge to run when not hooked up to electricity. Last night he found a couple on Gumtree so this morning saw us head off to South Brisbane to see if they were any good.

These days with cards available to purchase most things, its always a bit of a worry to know if we have enough cash on us or do we need to go to a bank/ATM first. Luckily we had cash between us and off we went for a 150 km round trip.

To a suburb that neither of us had herd of before but a trusty map book showed us where it was, pretty close to our eldest son place but they were away for the weekend. The GPS worked well and we got there and yes, batteries were very suitable so we exchanged 60 bucks for them.

Warren had installed them in the van and yikes they work, we can chose now between electric lights or 12 volt batteries. I had to do the oh argh! after he was finished. (When one of us competes something and we show the other we always call it an OH/Argh!)

We will get a solar panel at a later time to top up the batteries but for now we are set. This week we have bought little things to add to the van, Like a dishdrainer, to hold the dishes while we travel so that hopefully we wont have breakages, got a small thing to dry clothes on we used them all the time in China and will be suitable for small stuff. I also bought a small frying pan, we will cook mainly outside but it rained and I couldn't (didn't want to) cook vegetables outside on the camper stove. Had fish to grill in the oven so there was no other thing to do but to buy chips from the cafe.