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good Q and enjoyed the read. Though not a _truck_ I can comment on our rig...for us after much research (after having other adventure rigs) we decided on a van to convert into an overland adventure rig and what would be disignated as a daily driver for my wife ( < Trust the wisdom in that < ) ...

Spent our afternoons off this week giving the fiberglass roof a treatment of "Poliglow". It was an amazing transformation of a five year old heavily oxidized roof to factory fresh appearance! A full write up at my blog for those researchers among us. : ) Thom

Thank you for the interest, visits and PMs. Awning is SOLD. Enjoy the adventure! : ) Thom

Greetings, Cari & I are going a different route for the awning set-up on our van conversion... ...and therefore have a nice 10ft Fiamma F45 manual wind out awning with white cover for sale as seen on the van. It will come with the winder, mid-rafter, and the two adjustable legs. The fabric...

: ) Photo op down at the beach with our new Aluminess bumpers and boxes on the van!

congrats on the new rig marc! Thom

thx for the link-share...a fun read and nice product! A Jeep-camper note : ) I had the pleasure to see an Earthroamer XV-JP up close (next camp site from us) when my wife and i were camping ~an hour north of Portland Oregon. I'd followed the owner's posts over at Expedition Portal and enjoyed...

My wife and i lived south of Reno in the Washoe Valley area. While i do remembe the _winds_ they were/are nothing compared to life on the Oregon Coast. The weather station on top of our big rig we full time in has clocked ~78mph during our typical winter _storms_. A mile from us in a NOAA...

fun read. I wish there could be a multi-national venture attempting to retrace Admiral Peary's exploration of the North Pole and ...beyond?? I for one would be up for moving to middle earth : ) Really. Thom

no strange stuff except for hair-standing-up on neck thingy when tracking some elk for photos...started feeling like I was being watched. Then I saw them....fresh big-kitty-prints. I high tailed it back to the rig and got out of there. Thom

Our rig doubles as my wife's daily driver so it is always ready to go once it's back in the driveway. Not counting the spontaneous overnighter or two adventures, we were out about 35 nights. Funny thing is we slept in the van less than 5 or so nights as we were hanging in the hammocks under the...

My wife and i frequently camp with a couple of coworkers in the wilds of the PNW. One particular evening three of us took our respective showers before putting the BBQ on. The fourth waited until after dinner for his. Now....he is not the brightest light in the stadium and well... This was the...

THX for that tid bit. When watching the video i thought of how easy it would be to butt it up to the slider on the van so we could just duck in and grab clean clothes and such. Might be an alternative. Thom

Looks like a nice setup. I have it bookmarked. We are researching something to tie into our current setup. Top on the list right now is an OzTent RV3. And what you shared could do the trick also with side panels IMO for about a third of the cost. Thom

I was so proud of my MacGirlver wifie today : ) We were grocery shopping and going down the various aisles and she makes a B-line to a stainless steel "Growler 2 GO" 64oz container. She says; "Wow, that would be great with my pStyle. Lets stop at Home Depot and grab some tubing for it." I'm so...

keeping in the spirit of off-road worthy wandering : ) You might enjoy reading through some of the build threads over at Expedition Portal forum. There are a handful of ambulance conversions, some even on a 4x4 platform. Thom

: ) In the OP there was mention of _keeping the spouse happy_ when on the trails. I'm fortunate to be married to a MacGirlver who enjoys roughing it. She's come up with most of the solutions in our setup having to do with the _hows_ of waste. (TMI warning ; ) > > Also in the equation is that...

We have a 10 foot fiama F45 curb side on our rig. It seemed like the right thing at the time : ) Probably in a couple years... just cuz... We will replace the fiama with something simpler and more robust. I'm thinking of having a local shop fabricate a simple ~10 foot x 1" or 2" aluminum...

Another _season_ has come to a close for us. We typically chill during December through February. A bit to cold and wet for our taste in the places we frequent. This last season was a bit different for us in that we only took out our 15ft fiberglass trailer twice! Once during the month of may...

: ) my name is Thom <that's important. grin Sooo.... Once upon a time, before I purchased a garmin.... My wife luvs to drive off road, and she is really good at it. We are up some "Logging road" just west of Astoria. We are so far up that the "Road" turned into what any of us would classify...

I'll say semi-retired after stepping down to part time to have more time for our (wife's & my) ~monthly mini-adventures (~mon > fri). Sooo... About every 5th week from March through October we take off in our van conversion & fiberglass trailer combo. Nearly every trip is off-pavement and...

Greetings. I'm a bit late to this party... Just a tid bit from my time with the RV fans... If you've not already purchased the FF for your project you might benefit from researching the MaxxFans. I swapped out our FF with a MF 5100k because it has a built in all-weather hood (~80" of annual...

that "Restop commode" looks well made and nice for the non DIY'ers out there. That is basically what my wife and i were using since about 2007 in various camp/rig setups. We have switched over to utilizing the dometic 300 series in van and TT for liquid only, and then placing a 4 gallon plastic...

i recall watching this a bit ago while on some day-dream-time on the net. It certainly is dialed in as others have stated.

yup on the "excitement"... There was a winter storm that hit the coast the year before last that had clocked gust of 110mph at the Astoria airport just a mile from the golf course we live at. Fortunately the designer of the RV spaces have them so that the normal prevailing SSW winds and storms...