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So side and lid on the electrical compartment are installed. Charge controller / DC to DC converter installed in the compartment and ready to be wired. I doubt the whips that the MFG includes are long enough to make it down the 4" to the battery and across, but we will see. I suspect I need to...

So I THINK I have the solar / travel charging for my 200 amp hour Chins Lifepo4 sorted. However there will be nasty weather socked in days I am sure where I will not be driving and will likely need to top the battery off using my small Sportsman 1KW inverter generator, and no I no longer know...

So the sides of the bed are on, and glue is set. The electrical compartment is in glue drying up now. I have the hinges and the lid cut so once the clamps come off, I will line up and drill the mounting screw holes for the charge controller / dc to dc charger, and start getting the wiring...

I have the Alpicool 60 Liter, 63qt with the LG compressor. So far so good. It is multi mode in that I can use it as Fridge / Freezer, fridge only, or freezer only. Why you would want a 63 quart freezer overlanding I don't know. Honestly I have not run across a situation where I have found...

You betcha I have a dutch oven. 2 of them actually. A rebranded Lodge (Outdoor Gourmet but it has Lodge stampings) 8 quart, and an Ozark Trail 5 quart. The Outdoor Gourmet is in a carry bag and houses most of my kitchen little stuff like can opener, measuring cups and spoons, whisk, potato...

You just need a pot to boil water in, and a GSI Outdoors Ultralight Java Drip. No need to get any fancier than that. I use a 12 cup stainless percolator solely to boil water as it makes it easy to know when the water is boiling, This was intended to get coffee / tea for 2 and water for instant...

So here is the update. USB C charging block is here, and works fine with the laptop, at least with a mid range power profile. I.E. don't ram everything up 100% and game the crud out of it. Never my intent anyway. The idea for this laptop was portable video processing and graphics work. The...

So I cut to size the long size beadboard for the bed. Gluing and clamping the long sides on, so far so good. Let the glue cure... I MIGHT end up adding some toe nailed pins at each of the brace connections. Cut the beadboard for the narrow side, waiting for the long side to finish curing in...

The brush guard / winch mount. All of the brackets and braces are there. I am not including the Pro Comp off road lights in this deal though. I just forgot to remove them. The Engo E9000 winch. Some surface rust that should be taken care of, but otherwise in pretty good functional shape. Not...

Hmmm. I have been known to pee out of the door of my tent but that usually involves a LOT of rum... Come to think of it, I peed out of an open side door of a VW bus going down the highway once... Again, young and very drunk... DO NOT DO THAT. FWIW, I am just now going to be starting solo...

Responded to inquiry. Sorry I didn't get pics up. I found a bit of footage that shows the brush guard, but the winch is under the old cover... Will try to snap some pics tomorrow.

I don't do an RTT, so not a problem per se, but I do a truck bed camper, and it is just not that hard, even for my fat behind to get up out of bed, and stumble over to the closest tree and water it down...

Get some quality earbuds and keep the quiet for those that like the quiet unless you KNOW you are not going to rock and roll all night and annoying the ******** out of people that went well out of their way to get off grid and away from the noise lest they retaliate and a lousy trip be had by all...

That looks like a Coleman SunDome tent fly. Hey if it works, it works...

Repurposed / cheap items that help out... Well I haven't been backpacking for nearly 2 decades due to back injury, so my backpacking gear MIGHT count as repurposed, but maybe not. My large stainless tumblers and insulated half gallon water jug that I use to take good coffee to work instead of...

I got the Alpicool APLT60 60 Liter / 63 quart LG compressor fridge / freezer. I am a single guy and right now using it in fridge only mode. I have no need for deep freezing anything. This is actually TOO MUCH fridge for my needs. Do I regret going this big? Nope. Would I consider switching back...

Okay, tested. CI wrapped in towels, stacked, with stove in the plastic bin. Shook up like a James Bond martini and no issues. Problem solved. I was pretty sure there would be no problems before I shook it as the towels made the fit kind of snug-ish, so not a lot of room for movement.

Well, I don't have space to stow it vertically... I was hoping horizontally would be more workable. My beautiful late wife had a penchant for towels, The suggestion to wrap them in towels and then stow them sounds like a reasonable idea. Especially considering cost and utility Towels can be...

I had to laugh. My wife left me with a cat. I have no spare grocery bags as they are used for cleaning the litter box. Not a bad idea though.

Once the truck comes home, yep. Probably first pic will be when it goes to get new shoes put on. Maybe once the trim boards get put on, I will snap some pics, before it goes into the truck.