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#1
Common Room / Re: a girl her dog and her van :)
June 17, 2015, 06:09:45 AM
Thank you for your response kryten! I am intressted in hearing everyones experience, and your response was super usefull :)

I have this far been thinking about keeping my van bland a bit tacky on the outside, just to keep off attention. My solarpanels are high up enough to be out of vision and I will soon install good blackout curtains. I have a lock for the steeringweel and I am concidering some other burgler alarm that is noisy as I dont actually have a dog.

There are two sides to the situation as a female traveller: I have been travelling in Portugal by my self for about 2 years and I felt safe in general. Some parts of me dont give a shit about being female, I just cut my hair short, wear baggy clothes and walk fast with heavy boots and always keep a knife with me. These things somehow just makes sense to me. My techiqe is to not give people a reason to think of me as vounrable. I have never come across any threats, only sleasy drunks that are usually just lonley and kind. Maybe I have been lucky. The situation with a van somehow makes me feel a bit more nervous, maybe becouse It involves more belongings and being less discrete...

I am still in Sweden and my plan is to mostly stand on WWOOF farms/friends projects as I go out in Europe. I just wanted to hear the experience of other rubbertramps.

Thank you and keep safe!
#2
Van Conversion / Running on vegetable oil?
June 16, 2015, 06:49:01 PM
I have a Mercedes 307D, and one of the biggest reasons that I got a Diesel was the possebilites to convert it to run on vegetable oil.

Does anyone have experience with this? How easy/hard is it to get vegetable oil in Europe?

Thank your for your feedback and advice!
#3
Common Room / Re: New van lady!
June 16, 2015, 06:38:03 PM
Hello Claude! Oh, I love the idea of the house boat... Actually, it is a dream I would love to persuade one day. Do you have any pictures? Tiny homes are the best. There are three ways I would love to explore living: Life on the water, life of the road and life in a tree. They will probably all come when the time is right.

It would be a great idea to have meet-ups, as the ones in the couchsufing movement. It is a good way to share experience, exchange services, travel in group and have nice van parties.

Nice to meet you Claude, and good luck with your van :)
#4
Common Room / A viking on the road!
June 16, 2015, 06:29:40 PM
Greetings to all you free souls out there!

So empowering to read and be a part of this forum, like a mobile village in constant movement. I am currently in Sweden, heading south as autumn comes. I bought my rusty old pearl (Mercedes 307D)  this autumn for 800EUR, renovated it for 600EUR and am still exploring my travelling budget. My goal is to sustain my travelling by working as a freelance writer and Illustrator, visit Permaculture projecs and farms, hidden old villages and gather knowlage and skills to some day park my van on a peice of land and start a project of my own. Here is my crappy little blog: https://rovardotter.wordpress.com/

This being my first very own home and vehicle, I have a tremendeus amount to learn. My first dream was to have a "food truck" but I ended up with a home. I have a low-tech approach to the design of my van, and am currently exploring how to grow food in the little place I have.

Would love to hear more from people with Mercedes Vans! And anyone around Scandinavia who is up for a road trip? And Girls, how is your strategy on travelling alone?

Look forward to see you somewere on the asfalt ;)
#5
Common Room / Re: a girl her dog and her van :)
June 16, 2015, 06:18:37 PM
Ohoy! I am new to this forum, but felt very comfotable to step in here somehow. Love this post, and as much as I dont have a dog I have recently thought about it... but also the restrictins that it invovles. I have a Mercedes 307D wich I just "finished" renovating, I am leaving Sweden this autumn to travel through Europe. 

So girls on the road. I am often met by the "Are you travelling ALONE?" And I guess it is a come-back subject in the nomad world. I am thinking about safety, if anyone wants to come in to my van they will. But it is about being street smart.

How do fellow females handle the situation? And guys, do you face the same situation?

Would be a great idea to create a support-forum for nomad females :)