On the Road Again!

It's over for another year.  Another year where I have struggled to get any miles under the wheels on both bikes.  Another year of one sickness after another.  Another year of seeing myself being less of a biker and more of a vanlifer. Here I am in 124th place. Hopefully they will remove all the zero miles entrants from the spreadsheet.

A week ago we left the hospital and told to come back Tuesday.  On Monday, we got a call to say instead of Tuesday the appointment was changed to 9am at A&E Reception. Up early we arrived in good time. A bit of a walk around and we ended up in the "SDEC Hot Clinic". After three different blood takings and sitting about we were told we could go. The problem seems to circulate around some indicators in the blood and my liver.  I have akso been told to drop three of my nightly pill regime.  And now we move to next Monday and back to SDEC.

After six hours on the charger yesterday and another four today, I went into the garage to remove the Bluetti. The powerbank was down to 42%. Once disconnected from the charger I thought I'd give it a go.... It's  alive!!   Tomorrow will be another go to get the battery strength and then we will see.

Shirt arrived today.

It looks like weeks of neglect have led to Vera Strom's battery dying. When I say that, I mean not riding. I started and ran the engine a couple of times. Not enough. It seems to coincide with my dbPower jumper pack also giving up. It shows 100% charged but when connected to the bike nothing happens. No output. Maybe time for a new one? I have the battery on charge with the power provided by the Bluetti AC70. I'll keep a check on it during the evening and see how it goes. It could be a new battery and if it is, I'll look at another Motobatt. It looks as though the MBTZ14S is the fitment.

We bought one of these a few days before we went on our three week holiday to Spain and France last month. Of course, we hadn't expected the unusually high temperatures across the mountains that we were headed for. As a result, the fan was used everyday, with our lithium setup in the van we could run the fan all night plugged into the 230v system. And we did.  It's probably the best buy we have made.  So much so I ordered another from France and it arrived on Saturday at home. With another "heatwave" this week the two have been heavensent. 

After a few days of being back and the van stationary on the driv3 I had a look to see the mileage we did.  Unfortunately I reset Trip B at Plymouth just before we got on the ferry. I'd forgotten it at home before the trip. So the mileage for the trip comes out at 1610.6 miles. Plus 281 miles from home to the dockside. So a total of 1891.6. Before setting off I withdrew €200 from the foreign exchange office in Folkestone.  That went into the wallet with the €5 note from last time. I had €8 in 50c to €2 coins.  From that starting point we have come back with €85 in notes. The largest cash payments were to the vets and totalled €105. On top of that we spent £955.85 on the Clarity card. We use it for everything.  I don't think that's bad given we were away for 21 days in total. On top of that the bill for autoroutes from Emovis comes to Your invoice total for £119.95.