I’ve been living in the van for just over a week and have travelled 1400 miles from England to Spain. I have a couple of mates (Matt and Ross) with me so the van is at full capacity and has certainly taken a beating climbing through the Spanish mountains. I’ve used a fair bit of […]
Living and travelling in a van
Europe POI download (standard GPX format)
There are tons of great POI resources scattered around the net but the main problem is all the different file types and formats. Everyone is using different software and devices. A solution is the .gpx format which is an attempt to standardise GPS data and it does seems to work well. The best resource I […]
ITS TIME for step 3. Its time for travel!
Over the past 4 months I have become completely obsessed, side-tracked, absorbed and totally oblivious to everything else around me apart from van stuff. I could carry on doing this van for many more months but a line needs to be drawn. This is it. I’m off. You can see the (pretty much) finished van […]
Broken again – A list of work done on the van
The van has been in the garage for nearly 2 weeks now so I thought I’d do a list of all work done. It went in to get the steering box fitted/setup and to get a new full MOT on the 13th of Feb. Yeah I’ve been bored and frustrated. The list of work done […]
Getting to know my engine
I thought it might be a good idea to get to know the engine on the van (Ford Duratorq 2.4L) a little better and get familiar with the location of the main components. The van is in the garage getting fixed up and MOTed so this is one of the things I’ve been doing while […]
My van conversion – things are coming together
I’ve spent the last couple of weeks just trying to get things to work and doing all the really small annoying jobs that are so easy to get caught up with (and make you go crazy). With this in mind I thought it was time to have a break and zoom out a little to […]
micro-home on wheels …project update
According to my google calendar, I was meant to leave the country 20 days ago. I really don’t know how I thought I could fully convert a van into a home in just a month but then optimism is probably the key ingredient in this whole project so I guess I forgive myself. I always […]
