Selling the van

We advertised the van for sale on Gum Tree, an Australian website for buying and selling things. After 2 weeks of it being on and not getting much interest we were a little concerned and considered altering the add to a much lower price. On the last day of James's holiday we received a phone call from a mobile mechanic (Konrad) who was interested in the van. The next day he came out to see it and being a mechanic his inspection was pretty thorough. We settled on a price that we were really pleased with, but it was all on a handshake until the exchange was done 2 days later. He seemed good for it so we celebrated with a meal at Govindhas, the amazing vegi spot in Burleigh heads.
A day with Konrad:
I (John) arranged to drop the van off with Konrad (the buyer). I set off early morning and drove over an hour to his house. The place was a graveyard for Ford Econovans and various other vehicles. I've never seen as many vehicles in various states of disrepair. We completed the paper work and he took us to the Department of Road and Transport to change the registered owner documents. Then it was back to his to strip the bed out of the van and load all his tools into his new van. He was like a whirl wind, organised chaos would be a good way to describe Konrad. We then had to pick up some parts for a job he was doing before he could drop me back at the camp site. It was a long 6 hour trip. Konrad was into his self help tapes and we sat through a number of tapes training therapists to do something called time line therapy. It was delivered by an American man with the most monotone voice I had ever heard. I almost lost the will to live!! Eventually I was reunited with Ruth, who had had been standing guard over our belongings all day. We will miss our Cod!