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I have no idea what he said, but I can recognize an unrepentent clown when I see one, and I don't think he really does qualify, lol. - yours truly, President of YSAC.

Yeah, almost every prepared and canned foods and soups in the grocery stores are loaded with huge amounts of sodium. PITA. That's one reason I like the "Minute Rice" as it's very low in sodium, whereas all those Uncle Bens packages are loaded. At home, I have stocked up on dry rice, rotini...

>>>I hope you guys will still be out there somewhere, so I will have a destination. Ok, I poached this last from the other thread. However, I am sure the Magic Circle people will welcome you ... with open arms ... whether yer wearing a mask or not, Sophia. Warm bodies are always nice, if yer...

Can't you put a tarp or blanket over the outside plants at night? You'd think the earth would absorb heat during the day, and give it to the plants at night. Are you still on schedule to start wandering, Sophia?

Brad, I like your K.I.S.S. build. You have what you need to live on the road for months. You can travel and see how you like it, and will have plenty of time to make plans for what to do next. I have a GMC Savana van, we both will know the joys of "living outside" and sleeping inside, as they...

Hi Fan. Prior to covid, I traveled about 1/3 the time and used precooked rice and pasta for convenience. I like Minute Rice for low sodium and Barilla Ready Pasta. These form the "bulk" items in my meals. I cook them in the fry pan for a few minutes before adding the meat and veggies. My other...

VF, thanks for the tip on the book, sounds good, :-). Regarding bread, today I cooked some cornbread in the crockpot - I'm better at stirring in a few ingredients than kneading dough. I cooked the cornbread for 2 hours, which was probably 20+ minutes long too at the high setting (120W). Burned a...

The most amazing thing about fighting the fires is that, they are almost all on federal land, and the state of CA only owns 3% of the instate forests. The Feds seem to have money for everything except for proper forest management of their own damn lands. You'd think the states of CA, OR, WA, and...

Compared to other people, I did not find camping in the desert to turn the inside of my van into a dust bowl. First, I have 2 sets of shoes, one for inside the van and one for outside, so I don't track dust into the van. Secondly, I have a polypropylene carpet on the floor which can be taken out...

TA, did your son make it to Reno? I still think it might not be a bad place to rent a storage unit for a year or two while you travel and get resettled in HC.

Assuming you are talking about a van, then ... definitely more living space.  I've spent 3 years and 3 different build updates refining my van layout, and each time my priority has been towards increasing the open floor space. Especially in winter with short days, you tend to spend more time in...

"35% would live in their van by the beach". The naive dream. Sounds great, until you get to almost any beach and find out no camping is allowed.

I tent camped for many decades. In contrast to what practically everyone here has said, I like those car top popup tents. I wish I had one back in the 1990s and early 2000s when I had my Cherokees. It would have made a great combination, 4x4 to get way back into wilderness places, and MINUS the...

Follow up to this discussion from a couple of months ago. I did buy both a stove-top pressure cooker and a small 1.5-qt 120VAC 120W crockpot slow-cooker. After using both, I greatly prefer the crock pot, as it's basically painless to use and there is very little mess to clean up. I did the...

In the Savana, the 2 rear side door windows are different sizes but symmetrical, so you can flip the covers. Also the rear door windows are mirror-images, so fliperoo. OTOH, I have enough reflectix left over to make a 2nd set of covers with no blackouts.

I made window coverings from reflectix. The Savana rear windows have a rim that the coverings slide into, and which holds them firmly in place. Then I glued blackout curtain bought from walmart on one side using Scotch Super77 spray adhesive. I can flip the coverings so black side out for...

Lagun is only useful if your seats are fixed in place. We don't use them in S&B because our tables are fixed in place and our chairs move. Et tu, the van.

A pothole would be nice, and I've been to Pari-scope several times. Visited Jim Morrison in Pere la Chaise. Teenage girls were standing around literally crying 25 years later in the mid-1990s, and people were taking chips off the grave marker using hammers. Then I went to see Edith Piaf and...

Sophia ... ... did you figure out the issue with the engine indicator light? Find the OBDII? Are you putting in batteries in addition to the Bluetti?

Very nice, I totally love your choice of furniture. Perfect for something the size of a bus. Likey, likey.