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IMG_3851x by Martin Jenkins, on Flickr
IMG_3836x by Martin Jenkins, on FlickrEdited by GreenMaster on Monday 4th October 12:40
Edited by GreenMaster on Monday 4th October 12:51
Looks like a decent bus, what’s the interior like?
I sleep in my VW for work occasionally and we use it for family camping. It’s been insulated and is pretty cosy, but I don’t have any type of kitchen onboard. I prefer to boil the kettle outside for a brew and cook on a Cadac.
I got a Webasto airtop 2000 fitted and its lovely coming back to a toasty van after a cold walk.
I sleep in my VW for work occasionally and we use it for family camping. It’s been insulated and is pretty cosy, but I don’t have any type of kitchen onboard. I prefer to boil the kettle outside for a brew and cook on a Cadac.
I got a Webasto airtop 2000 fitted and its lovely coming back to a toasty van after a cold walk.
Nice looking van, different colour to most.
Can I ask though, I take it you live permanently in it? How do you deal with day to day stuff like going to the loo?
Also, parking must be a b
h. I get the US van life scene as it's such massive country but in the UK are you not extremely limited for places to stop over?
Can I ask though, I take it you live permanently in it? How do you deal with day to day stuff like going to the loo?
Also, parking must be a b
h. I get the US van life scene as it's such massive country but in the UK are you not extremely limited for places to stop over?R56Cooper said:
Nice looking van, different colour to most.
Can I ask though, I take it you live permanently in it? How do you deal with day to day stuff like going to the loo?
Also, parking must be a bh. I get the US van life scene as it's such massive country but in the UK are you not extremely limited for places to stop over?
I won’t go into details on here, but there are Loads of peeps who are “ Full timing “ in their vans, motor homes, caravans etc. For many reasons, but mainly ££ economic. I did it for a few years in 2 different motor homes after my illness and subsequent full breakdown after being regally £££ rinsed / shafted in divorce and by a g/f. Can I ask though, I take it you live permanently in it? How do you deal with day to day stuff like going to the loo?
Also, parking must be a b
h. I get the US van life scene as it's such massive country but in the UK are you not extremely limited for places to stop over?One thing I did learn very quickly, is how to be “ street wise “ and Very discrete / no noise etc etc. At first it was daunting, seriously daunting I can tell you, but then it became an adventure and a challenge.
I never stayed in the same place on 2 consecutive nights and never returned to the same place on the same day the following week. I never parked up @ night in remote lay byes etc, way too dangerous, I parked in carefully chosen, urban areas. For a while in the awful bitterly cold 2010 / 11 winter, I parked on an industrial estate, using my car to get to my work place. I had to leave the heating on low all day and used to get through one 13kg Propane cylinder every 7 days @ then £22 quid per cylinder. I came back to the van one day, to find that some low life had fired @ least 4 pellets from an air rifle @ the windscreen, in a busy road. I could tell the approx angle the shots had come from, but could do nothing else.
I often spot other “ full timers “ and know of one couple in a large US RV who have been doing it since @ least 2012.
Edited by SS427 Camaro on Wednesday 3rd November 23:29
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