Well, if you found this then you might have some idea who is John the Spacecadet and how his tiny little mind thinks too deeply about meaningless stuff.
And you might also know that he has enjoyed a great many travels driving his trusty rusty old toyota landcruiser before the obsession of converting a van.
Conventional motor-home conversions suck! - i hate them.
These expensive, oversized vehicles spend their time parked up outside the owners home, or in a storage garage. These vehicles are largely useless for anything except a single purpose of a few weeks driving holiday each year. They are outfitted so as to maximally obstruct and destroy useful internal cargo space causing them to be pretty crap for most any other utility or hobby purpose.
The conventional motor-home tries to achieve the impossible, the illusion that you can squeeze and combine every familiar room of your standard domestic house into the comparatively tiny space of a box on wheels. All using plywood fabricated cabinet structures screwed into and blocking access on the limited floor space.
This insanity, this illusion, has become further concentrated by the culture of vanlife, where poor souls, me among them, we are all sucked into this endless search for the 'ideal' layout for our van conversion which can be all things for all our needs and a dream home on wheels or at least a home for long travels, on that road where 'freedom' beckons.
The common spoken theme of vanlife is 'Freedom'. This is find pretty funny because of how people then go about finding that.
To vanlife searcher will construct inside their box on wheels a bedroom, with a spacious bed which occupies most of the limited space. At best that bed may be able to fold away and surrender some of the limited space for the purpose of spending your time inside with the feeling that you are not just locked in your bedroom. Often, route-1 - most common with van conversions is to stick in a fixed bed. Then perhaps some folks have the cunning wisdom of fixing the bed on a platform at waist height across the van so that there is a 'garage' below - with a supposedly vast storage space (yes, perhaps when compared with the trunk of a car, yes, you got a big trunk in your van.)
.....this is where i will now enter my full ranting mode .. but just not today - i feel i need to godo something more positive with my mind to maintain my crumbling sanity.
If you are interested in my continued rant - which is pretty much the reason all this crazy time consuming versatile van bed shit started in my head - then i will come back and waffle more on that, i guess with a kind of a build blog along this journey.
Just write me a comment to that end - and i can go fully mental on my ranting!
in the meanwhile, to help remind myself of a time before i got lost with my van conversion - a few photos for nostalgia - and a weird reminder why i started thinking a van could be a more practical vehicle than my trusted old landcruiser.
...and two weeks later after the night of a storm ....
Interestingly my friend sleep through unaware of the whole collapse of our improvised social camp.
And below a forgotten memory of why that place is so special - the serene seascape and the mackerel!
