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lots of enjoyable pics above. express AWD...u r gonna have fun : ) On front seat swivels... Oh YEA! Savanah... what a great platform.

Beautiful backdrop and playground! It's been nearly 30 years since my wife and I moved to the PNW from Black Rock Desert area...While we like the PNWgreenery, we sure enjoyed the wide open spaces like I see in your image. : ) Thom

: ) What Herbie said. Sometimes when we know the morning temps are going to be in the 30s we will put a butane canister close to the bed side to keep it above ambient since it is my goto heat source to boil a quick morning pot of water. When we buy a gallon of white gas we go ahead and fill a...

sweet rig cj !!

"drank the Kool-Aid" HAHA! For sure. "stock 1/2 ton"... ; ) I started rethinking our needs one Rubicon Run while navigating as my wife drove our FJ40 ChevOta... when I saw a near stock vw bug up the trail. Not sayin' it was a smart thing to do by the owner, but he sure did have a big grin on...

Greetings IPB and welcome to the forums! I'll share my 2bits on our 2010 Chevy AWD van conversion. I think you might be pushing the build to the max if you went with the 1500 (can find them used), but would be ok?? if you happened upon a rare 2500 AWD? We have the shorter AWD lift from BORvans...

Nicely done!! Grabbed some of the tips for keep-file : ) Thom

I didn't see any mention of the plastic Frontrunner Jerry Can with spigot... we use three of them in our van conversion. They will be put in the aluminess jerry can box on the rear bumper this next season. I know some have made mention of the stock spigot leaking, so far haven't noticed any. But...

Great picture... an Overlander's Holiday Postcard shot for sure : ) That is cool (and handy!). I've often wondered why my friend's Chevy 1500 AWD Truck has factory switchable transfer case and us vanners were left without , ( Thom

This reply is based on my wife's and my adventures utilizing our van conversion and an outdoor camp kitchen area, we most always find the weather is from ~45F to 75F and our camp elevation range from sea level to about 3K ft. If I simply want a quick kettle boil I will do so on an easy to use...

on "containing the fire" : ) You mentioned the dryer bin, so cool in use. My wife and I do an annual campout with a large group and even when there are no "bans" we use the bin. We put it on top of the camp's fire ring/grate and elevates it to a fun height for all to enjoy. sooo... with the...

While we do not own a tent _yet_ ... I did enjoy reading through the ~97 pages and seeing all the variety in the camp set ups. For any hammock luvers out there I share this hammock silliness : ) I created a hammock stand that will support one, two, three, or four hammocks. It was made on the...

I know there are pros/cons reasons for each person's rig, that said, I would not trade the our rig's AWD's daily-driving safety and convenience in our soggy PNW. Sure there is a _sort of_ extra cool factor with 4x4, but a nicely set up AWD will take at least 80 percent of us to : ) 99% of the...

I viewed several videos of the safari line of tents and like what I see. Visiting equip's site I see no mention of being able to order a second "wind break"...I think that would be nice since there are times having both sides covered while the front edge of awning was butted up to rig would...

I don't have the ARB awning, but I know that in researching the Oztent (which i'm considering) there is an awning/caravan "Connector" that will connect with our Fiamma F45 as it has an industry standard attachment rail. So maybe this is what will work?? Oztent Caravan Connector I looked at the...

thumbs up on the ceramic non-stick. We've been using ours for ~4 seasons with silicon utensils. Still going fine. Thom

I second that suggestion. On our 2010 Chevy AWD 1500 I took it in for its 5 yr checkup even though it only had ~33K on it. I figured its been my wife's DD for the past 5 years and needed something done to it other than all the oil changes. The shop was reluctant to do anything to it with the low...

: ) What he said... And on our build (same van same top) we had Van Specialties do quite a bit of work inside including a headliner. The finished headroom in ours is about 5'11" to 6' plenty for me and my wife. Thom

I mentioned in a prior post we are utilizing two 80qt Engle Deep Blue coolers we've wrapped with reflectix. This coming season we are going to go out with the brown one in use as a dry food storage locker and the white one for our to-be-cooled food items. We purchased two of the wire racks for...

I enjoyed the thread-read. The Bushlite in brass is a thing of beauty. We had two UCOs in camp for years, gave them to a friend when we switched to LED. There is a place for both for sure. Though I wouldn't chance hanging a candle lantern from the ridgeline of our hammocks : ) We did recently...