Here it goes! I picked up a 2018 136WB High Roof in November. Bought it in Virginia and blasted across the country solo over Thanksgiving break in 2.5 days to my apartment in San Francisco, still pretty proud of that one! Highly recommend it as a trial by fire way to learn highway driving with no windows. Took the plunge and quit my job in February to go full time moxying around for a bit.
Anyway, plan for the van is to make it as versatile as possible. Depending on the season it'll be used for surfing, climbing, or skiing so a lot of the design decisions have been based around keeping things flexible i.e. not closing off the "garage" from the living area so a surfboard can run the length of the floor. As is the engineering way, I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel with this thing. I'm ripping and reapplying ideas from others smarter, more creative, and with more sex appeal than me. I've been building the last few weeks, so I've got some stages pre-loaded, but goings been slow as I'm trying to help the cause and use online shopping as much as I can so I'm not going to Home Depot every day and spreading the 'rona...
Like many others before me, I'm starting out way with virtually no skills and in way over my head, so if you see something that looks ridiculous (especially electrical) give me a heads up before I explode my house
Anyway, plan for the van is to make it as versatile as possible. Depending on the season it'll be used for surfing, climbing, or skiing so a lot of the design decisions have been based around keeping things flexible i.e. not closing off the "garage" from the living area so a surfboard can run the length of the floor. As is the engineering way, I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel with this thing. I'm ripping and reapplying ideas from others smarter, more creative, and with more sex appeal than me. I've been building the last few weeks, so I've got some stages pre-loaded, but goings been slow as I'm trying to help the cause and use online shopping as much as I can so I'm not going to Home Depot every day and spreading the 'rona...
Like many others before me, I'm starting out way with virtually no skills and in way over my head, so if you see something that looks ridiculous (especially electrical) give me a heads up before I explode my house