24/06/2026
A crazy week where one of the walking vans broke down (suspected written off!) one evening, which required being towed (horrifying, 10/10 do not recommend on trip advisor) with a police es**rt. Not entirely sure why they wanted to es**rt us but they politely insisted.. maybe they were placing bets on if I would accidentally crash into the back of Emma’s dad’s van during the towing saga? Thankfully I did not. 😅
So the walking van went for a week long nap at its second home - our favourite garage.
And in the meantime, we went out and bought ourselves a new ford transit custom van!!! So we successfully added another van to our fleet ❤️ This van will need a full kit out with all the usual insulation and ventilation modifications to keep the dogs comfy and cool, and a whole new crate system, so I’ll be posting about that and the process.
The new van arrived home yesterday and has enjoyed a warm evening and day of boiling on my driveway with the occasional ‘test drive’ which was really just an excuse to get some A/C.
And today I got a phone call from the garage to say that the walking van went through open heart surgery and had a 1/1000 chance of recovery but has in fact been brought back to life and is ‘driving beautifully’. They also took it on multiple test drives, and commented on the A/C being good, so I suspect they had the same idea as us 😉
And so here we are, 2 walking vans on the road and 2 training vans (1 with exciting mods to be made). And other than that, everything is running incredibly early and we’re trying not to cook ourselves or any dogs into some kind of heatwave induced soup. Happy Wednesday!
