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our 2010 Chevy Express 1500 AWD has the 5.3L v8 and we are pleased with the performance. The GVWR on the van is 7300lbs and we run about that nearly all the time with full tanks/etc. Around town (it is my wife's DD) we see about 15mpg and on the highway ~17...sometimes up to 19mpg. For something...

ascii_man : ) if you re-read my post on the sales/use tax you will see I clarified it as such:   1) Physically drive over to Oregon and by an item in a store as there is never any sales tax charged at a register for items you are physically carrying out of a store in Oregon no matter what state...

: ) Enjoy your trip and time w/the family. IF I were to do things all over...I would have figured out a way to live and work across the river in Washington state. For the same rate-of-pay for a given occupation, not only will you be bringing home more net income (there are no personal state...

I'm with you on the not-necessary thingy. AND for what it's worth, Boulder Off Road Vans will lift a 2wd van (as they did for our AWD). And from what I've learned most 4x4 shops will lift a stock chevy or ford van with off the shelf parts, it's not that big a deal. Matt, THX for the vanKudos...

Hi Matt, thx for the clarification. Soooo.... As a silly aside, if you are up for a bit of fun reading, head over to a place called HammockForums.net you will find good info on the idea of using a hammock indoors too. Many folks actually use them full time in their homes rather than a regular...

I re-read your OP looking for # of occupants. IF it was just me i'd go van - again. My wife and I did add a 15ft fiberglass trailer to tow behind the van conversion but (as noted by another) there is a point where your tow vehicle, if at all capable (like our lifted awd conversion is) you long...

Yea the Elk are big! And there is a herd of about 60 or so that we pass on our daily commute. Sometimes they are grazing within a step of the asphalt...they have no fear. Fortuanately I've only seen about 1 roadside kill in ~6 or so week frequencies and they are usually younger ones. Yes on...

HA!! Love it. THX so much for the copy/paste thingy. The Sumpter Oregon trip was a blast. Except that I did the loop in the wrong direction! the way I did it counter-clockwise put us driving into the up-river winds on the Columbia River going home to the coast. I was so surprised we got anything...

THX so much for the van-kudos, it has been a 5 year labor of luv for my wife and I. On the bumpers/galley box : ) Some may remember I was seriously thinking of selling the van and getting something larger such as a Ford Transit, as the extra four or so feet on the floor behind the seats we...

My wife and I've discussed these sort of scenarios and what-if events. What I lean towards is IF I survive my wife (we will be of course on the road full time in something as we are full time rv peeps currently) I will continue to be in contact with our adult kids via whatever technology...

just a ramble and a different perspective. My wife and I bought new back in 2010. I searched for and found a Chevy RB AWD Cargo van. We wanted the AWD as we'd had Volvo xc awd wagons for years and liked the idea of awd on the soggy roads of our native PNW. We no longer wanted to bother with a...

His is a long wheel base regular body... you can tell because of the length between the rear edge of side door frame and the front of wheel well. You can see the difference (even with the camera angle) that on our short wheel base regular body van (a 2010) we have less than a hand's width in...

AWESOME! Awesome : ) Best wishes on the build and living. We LUV our chevy high top!! Thom

Overland Journal did a good job on that test. (I enjoy the journal and expo daily!) My wife and I swapped out our perfectly good YETI for two Engle Deep Blue (??2012 or so swap from YETI??) as the areas we frequent suggested (but not yet required) bear certification stuff if left out. It just...

as another suggested, we went with a double layer of refletix in our conversion. My wife cut them such that they are simply pressure fitted into window without need of any Velcro/clips/etc. Front window we still utilize a large truck/van folding window sun shade since we don't stealth. I...

we went with a slider-door-window and rear-barn-doors window treatment on our cargo conversion. We do not stealth camp (there's no point in our trail-bling-laden rig) and spend most times in BLM/USFS camps so our rig is at home. That said my wife nearly always puts up the reflectix into all...

on foam use... One thing my wife and I had to do last winter is flip our 4" cotton futon to the top and put the 3" gel topper on the bottom... the gel topper basically turns into a near-frozen slab a few inches away from a body part if interior temps drop below ~40F. We don't bother with heat...

seconds on utilizing as little soap as possible, and yes on baking soda also : ) On shower in a high top, easy to do if creative as others have noted. A simple small hoola hoop with shower curtain hung from ceiling ribs and a small ~2x3ft cement mix tub from lowes/home depot. If you ever get...

And I am SOOOOO Glad I was in the house preparing lunch when she did it : ) I know she can't blame me! But I still had to pay for it. haha.

"accrete I see screws attaching the headliner ?" The screws you see are on 1/4" x ~1" wide trim strips that are actually hiding the seams between three sections of 1/4" headliner board. The boards are screwed (hidden under trim strips) onto blocks of wood that are epoxied onto inner skin of...