Living out of a Toyota Hilux has some benefits. It has only been 3 weeks but slowly finding where everything is and re-packing/unpacking to get it better organised. It is quite a relief to know the essential item you are looking for is exactly where you remember it is without searching through the entire vehicle. Everything now has a home. Getting packed up in the morning and setting up at night is noticeably faster each day. The tent takes around 3 minutes to set up and 5 minutes to put away.
Daily chores:
- Re-fill water bottles (pink job)
- Cooking dinner (pink job)
- Setting up camp chairs (pink job)
- Unpack bedding (pink job)
- Hand washing clothes (shared)
- Putting up roof-top tent (blue job)
- Tyre pressure (blue job)
- Vehicle maintenance (blue job)
- Set up awning (shared)
- Washing up (shared)
- Put up lights in tent (blue job)
I have not looked in a mirror since Gibraltar – quite liberating!
Highlights so far
- A working fridge
- Solar panels to feed the induction hob, lights and phone charger. All self- sufficient and no energy bills.
- Hand washing clothes. The novelty has not yet worn off.
- Very few insect bites so far…
Lowlights so far
- Only 1 hob so one-pot dinners need to be creative.
- When flies descend
- Dust and/or sand everywhere