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Maybe, our daughter lives in Van... where and when...???...

Just when it was going so good... Finalizing the fitting and connecting... All rear cabin 12 volt is connected and working fine, one battery is connected to power the systems... Slow going but fun... Fit the water intake/cleaning access port to the water tank... Flushed out the tank, then...

60 - Lighting (above) Porch Lighting... A pair of cheap 2.5" LEDs and a single tiny LED at the rear step... Switched on the sink base cabinet face... (above) Interior wall recess lighting... LED strip lights behind wall trim board... On a dimmer... Looks cool in any other picture than...

59 - Rear Lights and Interior Electrical (above) The lights under the rear porch are now all white/clear... There is attached to the porch lights another led lamp that illuminates the rear step... Call them porch lights... Also changed are pair of back-up lights... Like the screw-in mount much...

Will do and thank you...!!!...

Progress report The past two days have been productive... Two days of unhurried work on electrical connections... Starting with the small circuits then going onto the bigger ones... Installed concealed strip LED lighting in the rear cabin and tweaked some of the outside lighting a bit...Also...

That is Earthroamer XV- JP #003... Extensively modified... More here: http://forum.expeditionportal.com/threads/51254-EarthRoamer-XV-JP-quot-Northwest-Edition-quot

inside the XV-JP

58 - Walls and Upholstery (above) Found some interesting fabric for the bench seat/ bed and wall cushion (not shown here)... The area right above the bench seat is now finished off with redwood sealed with Watco Danish Oil... (above) The wall cushion is sized to fit on the floor for another...

The passenger seat does not slide or tilt forward very much, so only an infant could sleep on the curbside bench seat... The wall cushion on the driver side is 20" wide which is the width of the floor... So you could get two on top, one on the bench seat/bed and one on the floor... Cozy for...

57 - Pull-out Bed (above) A set of 300# drawer guides with a 36" extension are mounted in the cab-over... (above) Extended, the new bed is 48" wide x 84" long... More to do on this...

56 - Upper rear cabin walls... (above) Keeping it simple... Fence board cedar... (above) The boxjoint tray is leftover from an entry column job a few years ago... A dado was ripped into the fence board and the wood was screwed and glued... Only over the sink side... (above) The stove...

55 - Electric Panel (above) Nothing is hooked up yet...

With the high roof rack, camera mounting tracks facing every direction, lot's of power to recharge things and even a fridge to keep your film, if you are still shooting that... Yeah...

Ride Report - How it Drives... It drives better than it looks... After the being scared of the size while piloting down the local roads, the freeway experience was an easy arc in the learning curve... Basically it is very quit... I noticed that immediately... Not what you might expect given...