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    Attacked While Sleeping in Jeep

    everyone on here that shared their experience and even the Jeep story got away with not having a gun.
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    Table DIY ideas

    You could use your piece of plywood idea and either hinge it to the inside of the back door with one leg hinged to it and it could fold down in position or install some kind of eyelet or clip that the table could mate into on the side of the van or the rear doors or somewhere outside, you could...
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    Attacked While Sleeping in Jeep

    Alberta is very conservative, likely the most conservative voting province in Canada known as the Texas of Canada, however the two major cities Calgary and Edmonton are fairly Liberal due to the influx of workers from other provinces that built and populate the large suburbs that surround these...
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    The Value of Travel

    I think Marc Twain’s «travel »  meant outside of one’s culture, driving from one Walmart to the next does not extend or challenge a persons perspective,
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    Attacked While Sleeping in Jeep

    I get your analogy however is opening your wallet to pay for something flashing, how do you want to live your life, always hiding, not exposing your experiences, your talents, does working at a corner store expose us to bad behavior, or getting out our credit card and pay waving it, make it an...
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    Attacked While Sleeping in Jeep

    That is like saying showing too much leg is an excuse to justify ****, this is a very scary thing to happen to someone, you shouldn’t be minimizing it, and blaming her for someone else’s outrages behavior.
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    Encountering COVID restrictions while traveling

    I don’t know how true this is but apparently the flu of 1918 mutated to a form of the common cold which is still with us, but fairly mild, perhaps this the beginning of the end.
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    24/7 Chat About Anything

    Bummer don’t loose hope just yet it might turn up in the next day or two…..
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    Option A or Option B

    Take the free wood stove and buy the buddy best of both worlds I have a propane vented heater and plan to install a small wood stove as well I just got to figure out how and where it will fit. I hate being cold and two different fuels open ups more options.
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    Will there ever be a cure for Dromomania ?

    I think the urge to be progressive, improve our selves and our surroundings is hard wired into us and this i think is what drives us to explore. A cure or when this stops is when we find our personal utopia and that utopia is rooted. Another cure would be events such as political unrest, wars...
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    Should I Delay My Departure

    Yes I would delay…..it is completely crazy past the boundaries, gaz is too expensive, and rising, there are too many guns and crazy people wandering freely, large areas where you can’t buy food and most of the rivers are void of fish, game is gone, the mid west has dried out, vast areas of...
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    Securing Sub Floor

    I have heard that on here, not to screw down your floor but never heard a good reason not to. Some people might think that you may invite rust but that is a long way down the road and could be avoided with a bit of grease or sealant down the hole before screwing a galvanized or stainless screw...
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    Tire chains?

    True story, Many moons ago, driving up the Stewart-Cassiar highway, mid winter, snow storm, my van, friend driving. Our side of the road plowed, come into corner snow plow coming other way, friend slows, moves over into plowed area close to edge right front wheel sinks, sucked into ditch, rear...
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    Tire chains?

    Personally I wouldn’t bother, they are pain to put on and store, if you have a class c wait out the storm in comfort and safety at the bottom of the pass. If condition are such that chains are required it is dicey best stay off the road.
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    The dilettantes are starting to throw in the #vanlife towel

    I think like anything you have to be in the right mindset to succeed or enjoy it. If you have been watching that program Alone where they put people out in the wilderness alone and they have to survive, I find it interesting that some have great skills but don’t make it because their heads are...
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    Laminate Flooring for Walls/ceiling

    If you plan on painting your tung and groove something I learnt about knots, you have to shallac them so they don’t seep through your paint work.
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    power Tools and Invertors

    Don’t waste your money on big inverters and generators, just make the plunge and go battery, I charge my 18 volt Milwaukee batteries on a 14.00 dollar inverter, that plugs Into the cigarette lighter, buy one of those kits that has 5 tools a couple batteries and add to it as you need, choose a...
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    Slept in 2006 Dodge Caravan Minivan WITH Diesel Heater - Nearly Froze

    I agree insulating a floor can make a huge difference, even if the logic is that heat rises.
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    Don't buy Lectric Ebike

    E bike are growing very quickly all over the world, the idea that they only work in Beijing is ridiculous, I don’t own one but can see the benefits when riding my 32 year old cannondale becomes too difficult, or if I had to commute longer distances. They seem to fit in perfectly well with other...
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