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Always behind the times, I just realized I haven't posted up my Hundred's information: It's a 2005 Lexus LX470 in Granite Grey. I've had this one for a year, but previously had a 2000 LX470 for a couple of years. As I've posted in a couple of other places, I was surprised to conclude that the...

Thanks for sharing the information. The antenna on my JK camper is in pretty much the same place and I am pleased to hear that it's a good choice.

Nowhere near as big as what I used to get. I've divested myself of the Tacoma, Astro, Sprinter and Samurai in the past year, and just got a letter from State Farm asking WTH I was doing and if wondering if I understood how much I was adversely affecting their profits. ;)

A small point that has nothing to do with the main argument: I don't know enough about big Ford trucks to know if my experience is relevant, but for what it's worth . . . I paid considerable extra money to add high idle programming to my Sprinter camper so I could recharge the house battery...

We'll be disagreeing on this one, as my personal experience is that outside of the couple of months that make up the sunny Oregon summer, a 100 watts of solar here will seldom keep up with the draw from a good-size compressor fridge, and certainly not with a 3-way RV fridge. I rarely run my...

Pretty much whenever you show up at my doorstep. Or maybe once the West Coast refinery crisis is over and the Gas Buddy map doesn't look like this: Credit: www.gasbuddy.com Seriously, though, between the two of us, we could indeed set the benchmark for competent overlanding without...

Thanks for the pictures, Brad; very nice work. And thanks, too, for the road advice. Very valuable.

I also vote for a second alternator dedicated to the house batteries, which was the setup I ran on my Unimog camper. However, my second alternator was run off a separate short belt driven by a separate crank pulley mounted in front of the main pulley. I've no idea whether this is practical in...

That, my friend, is a nice enough solar setup--the Outback inverters are about the best around--and it's a good starting point. However, I am nowhere near as gung-ho on solar setups as many and always put in my pitch for the more flexible, in my humble opinion, small, quiet portable generator...

Having substantial experience with the matter, I can say that a Sprinter drives really nice for a truck. It most assuredly does not drive "as smooth as a Lexus." :( A clever build with many advantages. Shame about the delusional price.

Yeah, don't I know how that goes? ;)

Vixens rock! Welcome to the forum and good luck with your project. It'll be great to follow your build.

Thank you very much for making all of those pictures available. Fine photography and a great overview for those of us who didn't make it.

Thanks for the pictures and comments, Linda. I had a great time on our joint micro-OvEx.

It works about like you'd think it'd work. The sink is intentionally small and not very deep and the positioning, while designed to be optimal if you are inside the truck, wasn't made for washing up from a big cookout. No problem, though, cleaning up your own tableware and pots when solo...

There's relatively little difference between the LX470 and the Landcruiser, and they drive nearly identically. In the beginning, the Landcruiser outsold the Lexus, but as the price continued to climb, the Lexus started to outsell the Landcruiser. Apparently if you're going to spend $70K on a...

Perhaps someone who knows about this stuff can quickly guide me . . . I'd like to put the Wilson dual-band signal booster into the Jeep camper, but am not clear whether there's a place to mount the outside antenna where it will do any good, as the entire roof area is fiberglass: and I...

It was dumb of me not to weigh it ahead of time, but I'm thinking that we're looking at about 300 pounds total. The weight is mostly in the 27-liter Engel fridge, the 150AH Mastervolt AGM battery, the TrippLite 1000 watt inverter/charger, and maybe 50 pounds of plywood and hardware. The key...

Over the past ten days, the LX470 had its first trip as a camper van. The trip was about 3100 miles overall--Portland to Las Vegas to the Utah parks then back to Las Vegas and back to Portland. I generally took the road less traveled, though in much of Nevada and Eastern Oregon, even the...

A propane-fueled Cook Partner stove lifts out of rear drawer and sits on dropped tailgate to cook. The liftgate provides overhead shelter while cooking. (FWIW, I believe that the different camping uses you can make of the tailgate surface is a benefit that outweighs the slightly increased hassle...