After attending the Florida Peace, Love, and Vans event back in Feb (it poured rain all day), we knew we

Bought the Northwest Conversions 20 gallon undermount tank. Called them beforehand as the tank dimensions sure seemed like it would

I'll share the electrical system design shortly - basically it's self-sufficient so shouldn't need

Inevitable I suppose, but slightly scary that ChatGPT has now contributed to my van build. I'm installing the

Added some weatherproof, rugged LED lights to the van. Not thrilled at drilling mounting and wiring holes in the van

The floor does not get proper respect in van builds. It seems like a "yeah, whatever, move on"

We finally decided the layout enough to feel confident buying windows (sizes, location, type, brand, vendor). Arctic Tern by Tern

Once the floor 'sandwich' (1/2" minicel + 1" polyiso insulation + 3/4" baltic birch plywood)

Another day, another hole in the van. There's plenty of items on the roof that require wiring to

Reason #6 on why we built our own van was modern DC air conditioning so that we could power it