logistics: next move, packages, CA

My 14d would be up here in American Girl Mine on Sat the 6th, but the Traveling Vet referral came through, so I have an appointment in Yuma on the 4th. It’s a fasting appointment (annual exam blood labs) at 0-dark-thirty Thursday morning and I’ll stealth nearby Wednesday night to ease the pain of fasting

neat cars from the Mexican market

There are lots of neat small cars across the southern border.  This one, The RAM 750 (half a 1500) is my favorite.  The Adventure package above is an extended version, and adds

article: vintage trailer

  Yum!  From this article in The Vintage News

Model T camper

hat tip to this reddit thread

Maxvan

There were two (!) of these little beasts at the RTR, and I’d never seen even one before. It’s a Dodge minivan with a fiberglass rear half. Apparently they come as an empty shell except for an area with the house battery, converter, etc in it. I think it’s terrific, and would sell like hotcakes.

a tiring week or so

A few things going on.  None of them frustrating (because of my overall lowered stress level and flexibility offered by mobile living).  I might say frustration-adjacent.   Tire Pressure Monitoring I damaged three TPMS valve stems when I got deeply stuck in gravel in Big Bend.  I am no great fan of TPMS anyhow, judging

Installed the cruise control

Got around to installing the Rostra cruise control for the fullsize Promaster that I mentioned in an earlier post. I Looks pretty stock under the blinker stalk.  It works well but I ran into a problem early on.   Here is the text of my Amazon review:

Cruise control – road trip to El Paso

A bunch of things are happening right now.  Might end up in a mad flurry/launch or just a blip on the radar.  Much thinking will be required. It starts with a road trip to El Paso in July. To that end, I ordered the Rostra cruise control for the Promaster.  I’d been putting it off

Case study: 4 obstacles to vandwelling

This is an interesting case.  The poster has some of the usual beginner questions and misconceptions but she also has a laudable amount of self-awareness.  She pays attention to how things work for her, and understands that a thing can be good but not necessarily good for a given purpose.

overhead storage in PM

Note:  I originally tried to post this on CRVL, but the borked forum software has stopped parsing clickable thumbnails and displaying them.  So pasting the post here. Been a while since my last update. Work has been weird, then I got Lyme disease a coupla weeks ago. Not as much fun as it sounds. I