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    FS: 2020 Mercedes Sprinter camper van

    Thanks for the feedback! We're just as curious as you are. We need some time to regroup and earn more money to really execute the journey we were working towards and cut short. Our goal was - and still is - all of South America. We don't want the van to sit unused during that time. But so far...
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    FS: 2020 Mercedes Sprinter camper van

    Item location: Central Florida, USA. Transport can be arranged within continental US. Here's a full description: 2020 Mercedes Sprinter 2500 Cargo 3.0L turbo-diesel 4WD 144" wheelbase high roof custom RV What a mouthful! This van was purchased new in December 2020 as an empty cargo van. The...
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    MA to AZ and beyond

    So, we left Warren on Sunday morning to head south to Nashua. We left just in the nick of time, too. After we got through Tilton, the highway was completely closed for a bad traffic incident. My dad didn't end up getting to Nashua until around 8:00pm. When we moved into the van, we retained a...
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    MA to AZ and beyond

    Once we were "back home" (as everyone else calls it), we mostly just spent a lot of quality time with friends and family. We visited all the parents and siblings and even a few aunts, uncles, and cousins. We drove to Maine to see Mandy's side of the family, and we stayed in northern Maine for...
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    MA to AZ and beyond

    Thursday, we left the Barrel and drove to Paper Moon Winery in Vermillion, Ohio. It wasn't a super long drive, so we arrived early afternoon. We got a glass of wine and hung out in their yard for a while. Loki liked the grass there. Mandy's throat was continuing to get more sore and beginning to...
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    MA to AZ and beyond

    Wednesday, we left from Indian Lake State Park and made our way around the lake to the west side. There, at Kitch-iti-Kipi, there is a spring which feeds the lake. The spring is super clear turquoise water. You're probably wondering how is it clear and turquoise? Well, so am I. They've built a...
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    MA to AZ and beyond

    So, we left Milwaukee and headed north. Even though they lived in the area, they were horrible tourists, and Jordan and Abi had almost nothing to contribute for recommendations north of their city. We hassled them about it, but we didn't actually mind. One thing that the recommended was Door...
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    MA to AZ and beyond

    Monday morning, just as we said, we packed up and headed out in the morning. We drove up to Shueyville, Iowa, which I'm sure you've all heard of before, and then turned southeast to Solon. There's a really nice, small campground on Coralville Lake there, which we stayed at for a night. Nothing...
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    MA to AZ and beyond

    Sunday morning, we said our final goodbyes to all our new and old friends and then we hit the road. Our plan was to explore Wisconsin, Michigan's upper peninsula, and then the lower peninsula. Kind of like a clockwise route. So - for once - the plan was what we did! We've dipped our toes into...
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    MA to AZ and beyond

    Sorry for the delay! I'm working on updates. It's been a weird combination of chaotic and boring that has amounted to me not feeling like stuff is worth writing, as well as not prioritizing writing as stuff has been going on around us. We didn't die. The wait is over.
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    MA to AZ and beyond

    Meanwhile I was doing all that work, one of the producer/videographers for Tiny Home Tours, Jonluc, asked if I could help him out. Mandy and I discussed again, she was still studying and still didn't care. After I was done and the bus was fixed, I had a lot more confidence than during, so I was...
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    MA to AZ and beyond

    Anyway, Kansas was basically on the way, so what the heck? The shop that they are at is called Dark Wolf Artisans and their specialty is school bus roof raises. They're just starting to get more involved in more-complete conversions, but primarily the work they do is raising the roofs. They're...
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    MA to AZ and beyond

    The next few days are kind of a blur. I literally took no pictures because I was essentially driving the entire time I wasn't sleeping. That's a bit of a stretch, but not by much. So, Saturday we hit the road early. We decided we'd make a big push to get to the US border, which was about a...
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    MA to AZ and beyond

    Friday morning we took a walk around the city to check out a couple churches we hadn't seen. We just wanted to see the outsides, so we brought Loki. We realized we'd been just nearby on the opposite side of the street yesterday and didn't even notice. We'd been distracted paying attention to the...
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    MA to AZ and beyond

    Wednesday, we were more confident in our decision to leave. We weren't in a hurry, though, and we ended up talking in the front yard with Victor and Nora for a while before hitting the road. They were just so nice! We're excited for them to hit the road, they're going to have a wonderful time...
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    MA to AZ and beyond

    Tuesday morning, we spent some time working on video before the day got too hot. Victor hung out with us a while when he wasn't working. We hadn't really planned to stick around for another night, but after talking with Victor about his lovely city, we decided it would be wise to explore more...
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    MA to AZ and beyond

    We left Oaxaca on Monday, June 5. We took our time in saying goodbye to everyone who was left at the RV park. Dita, who has been there several months now, told us that the crowd ebbs and flows. Sometimes it's packed and everyone is super friendly and there's constantly people to hang out with...
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    MA to AZ and beyond

    Although we spent a lot of time meeting and getting to know everyone around us, we also accomplished some projects, too. The most challenging one was sorting out our bricked Starlink situation. So, if you recall, it was disabled because the ethernet socket was ripped clean off the PC board...
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    MA to AZ and beyond

    Friday, we made a big push all the way to Santa Maria del Tule, back to El Rancho RV Park which, if you've been reading long enough, you may remember we visited before. A couple months ago, we were at this spot, just south of Oaxaca, for four nights. This time we stayed for about three weeks...
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    MA to AZ and beyond

    Thanks for checking in. All's well here. Just been a combination of busy and lacking the motivational juices to sit and write. I'll catch you guys up in just a minute.
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