Well, hello again! We’re back with our second blog post. If you missed our introduction, take a look to see how we got here. As mentioned in the intro, there were three main factors that we focused on fleshing out before making the leap: the layout, the vehicle and the conversion budget. We’ll dive deeper into the vehicle and the conversion budget in future updates, but today we’ll focus on the layout. Before you get too excited, we are not even close to a final layout. Rather, we made some priorities regarding the overall set-up to keep in mind when looking at vans. Height of the cabin
These are just a few of the things that we considered. Many of them, however, were less of a priority to us. Most of them, furthermore, we’re willing to adjust based on the final vehicle. We’re doing our best to not set ourselves up for failure by setting too many expectations. What would be most important for you? How would you make those attainable? Next up, we’ll share more details about the process that led us to purchasing the step van. Till next time!
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So we did a thing. A wild, crazy, possibly reckless, oh-so-exciting thing. On June 27, 2017, we signed a check and drove away with a 2002 GMC Workhorse Step Van. In a previous life, she functioned as a postal service step van in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Next up, she’ll be our home on wheels! We are planning to convert this beauty into a camper van. While the adrenaline, anxiety and squeals that came from this purchase may have made it seem like a spontaneous decision, we did put a lot of thought into it. We are a pair of planners, Tanner and I, which led to discussion after discussion on how we might make the “van life” a reality for us. We researched, read countless blogs, reached out to a few full-timers with our questions, talked through what we anticipate to be our biggest challenges. Before we could pull the trigger, we knew we had to have a plan in place for some key factors. Below are what were most important for us to figure out before making any commitments, which we plan to delve a little further into in future updates.
But hey - what's life without a little risk? We’re excited to share this journey with you - the good, the bad, and everything in between. Come back soon for future updates!
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