Progress: Figured out where to find LPG & how to use the pump, and filled up the tank. Moved it beside the house. Got Daan in to look at it. Figured out the issue with the heating. Decided not to have Daan re-jig the desk.

Thinking: The van still doesn't have any real draw & doesn't feel "home-y" enough for me to want to spend any time in it. It would be great to have it feel like that for any of: Doing Deep Work, Doing Calls, Hanging in the evening. The lowest hanging fruit here is to fix the desk. Initially thought the desk was this, but it'll cost over a grand and still be hitting my knees. So know I'm thinking let's make it cosy and/or sufficient for doing work from the couch.

Actions

• ✓ Ask Daan if it's possible to modify the desk

Thinking: Now that I'm doing more work on it, I wanted to revisit the idea of keeping the van & how that would work. The conclusion is that there's a massive amount of work & cost involved. In order to legally drive it here, I'd have to pay a few grand to import it, pay a few grand in tax per year, and pay a few grand to get my C1 license here. It would also then become very difficult to sell (being both overweight and a right-hand drive), so after I'd have to re-import it back to Ireland and likely pay VRT again before selling it. So my options are:

• Cut losses, bring it back to Dublin & sell it

• Double down - go through the admin in the Netherlands

There's still a big part of me that's excited about the idea of actually having it, in a state that I'm excited to use it, and where I know it's fully legal to drive around and I'm not apprehensive about that. In particular using it to work from, do calls during the day etc. That may also just be subconscious loss aversion.

What I'll do

• Do a little more work on it over the christmas - couch back, fix heating, make it cosy etc. I'll need this to sell it anyway.

• Keep it near the house and try to start using it for work, calls etc.

• Plan to drive it back to Ireland late January, do CVRT & make a call