The joys of working on a 33 year old vehicle!

So we're redoing the floor in our motorhome Igor, and of course nothing is as simple as it should be. I had to remove the kitchen cabinet to access the rotten subfloor, and in the process found out that our kitchen countertop was also rotten. 

Ah, the joys of working on a 33 year old vehicle!

I was originally thinking of building the new countertop myself, but on Tuesday I showed it to our friend Chago and he said "I know a guy" and he made a phone call and disappeared with the old countertop.

Yesterday morning, there was a knock on our door, and it was the "guy"... holding on to our brand new countertop!

Wow... exactly what we wanted!

And made of solid wood. Total cost? 850 pesos ($65 CAD, $48 USD). For that kind of money, I'm so glad I didn't make the effort to do it myself.

We had a lunch date with Barbara and Scott... the couple we had met for dinner a week and a half ago. This time, they came out to our area and we went for tacos, then back to our place for a chat. Along the way, I picked up some stain for the countertop.

Kevin, Scott, Barbara, Ruth.

After they left, I got to work staining the countertop.

Two coats later, it's exactly the color we wanted.

Now it has to dry for 24 hours and then I can start applying the varnish. It's going to take four or five coats of varnish, but in the meantime I can start doing the floor as soon as it arrives. I ordered it from Amazon Mexico on Wednesday and it is supposed to show up after lunch today.

So I can install the floor over the weekend, and then the cabinet, and then the countertop. Still going to be a big job putting all the plumbing and wiring back together, but I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Perhaps we'll get off on our Veracruz trip earlier than expected... we'll see!

A little bit of color in the sky last night.

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