Australian couple Paul Battenally and Clara Trindall, who met while working in Japan, fulfilled their dream of exploring their vast homeland by converting a 2005 Isuzu Coca-Cola truck into a spacious mobile home. Despite the challenges of finding a suitable vehicle due to Battenally’s height, the couple spent 11 months and $17,500 on the conversion project, turning the unconventional choice into their ideal travel companion.

That’s a cool truck

“When I bought the truck, I was living in a shared house with a bunch of friends in a coastal city in New South Wales, and so I was working on it in my free time after work,” Paul shared. “I’m a carpenter, so I had all the skills necessary to build it, and it wasn’t too challenging for me.”