For Christmas, my mom was so kind to gift us an ARB awning to complete the van buildout. However, figuring out a means of attaching it proved to be a bit challenging. The only hardware these awnings come with are used to attach them to a roof rack of your extreme 4x4 vehicle. Sadly, the Sprinter does not have a roof rack, and even then it would be entirely too tall for me to roll and unroll. My goal was to attach them to the rain gutters that circumnavigate the van.
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Creature Comforts and Other Van-Warming Items /
During this first trip we had a house (van-house anyway), but we did not yet have a home. While perfectly functional, it felt like we were missing a few things here and there. A weeklong trip to climb in the desert was a great test what else is needed to make the van more comfy and figure out what worked and didn't work.
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After cruising in the van for almost a year now, one of the most common questions I get is "how much money did you put into it??" Since most of the work was done by me and McKinley, the only real costs was in the materials themselves. I dug through my Amazon account, as well as my credit card statement to figure out the total costs of it. I always preface this by saying that the total includes a lot of big ticket items, like the fridge, solar panels, and batteries. And, well, here it is!
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