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Welcome to the Van Living Forum Bluedogz. You've found a great place to learn of all the stuff you want to know about. Since you're in Texas, I'd suggest considering a vehicle durable enough to hold up to lots of travel. I have family in Texas and have been all over the state so I urge you...

Just as Women attract Men with their looks & charm, Men may attract Women as John suggest....but not as much with a "cosmetics" appearance. Being too good looking can arouse their suspicion. You may recall what a shopkeeper told Harry Potter in Diagon Alley ? "The Wand picks the Wizard"...

Welcome Schwolli to the Van RV Forum ! Petanque :) a great way to meet people.

There are many coffee syrups available to the American market. Even online sources such as Amazon, Ebay, and Walmart have them. Kroger (and affiliates such as Ralph's) offer these in some areas. A person can even make their own. Keeping it shelf stable can be a bit of a trick so for those...

I've thought a lot about this in the past few years. I've decided to leave my 4 cup automatic drip coffee pot at home and just heat water in a sauce pan on my propane cook top. This way one utensil can accomplish a few jobs in the kitchen. What I'll do for coffee is to carry a bottle of...

Welcome to the Van Living Forum City Gypsy. Do you like to write and illustrate your own manuscripts ?

Welcome to the Van Living Forum smokeshadow :) We have much to offer here and are quite willing to share.

I'll share this with you. My father worked in the aviation industry and traveled extensively. Much of his time was spent looking down at the ground and seeing sights he thought would be interesting to visit and he began to keep a small note tablet handy to annotate those things. Before his...

Are you thinking of installing a window type A/C unit in it ? There are A/C units that start with less energy. Those have been discussed here before. I think the units were used with lower power quiet type generators. Can't remember who made those but I believe they were well known...

As fall season approaches it's a nice time to have a cup of hot cocoa while sitting around the camp fire. Those pouches of cocoa from the store can be a bit pricey but here is a recipe for for making your bulk own mix using powdered milk....and it's simple. 16 oz powdered milk 1 cup sugar...

There is a whole series of "101 Things To Do With ________________" cook books. Some are now into volume 2 and 3. These are small spiral ring books. I found this one interesting:

Here's a youtube video for you that shows the movement of 70 degree weather for each day of the year. (it is also in the bottom link of the signature lines below) It may help you to plot a course to travel north or south thru the year. Some have found a way of living on the slope of...

Welcome to the Van Living Forum Jason. :) I might suggest you visit the bottom link below this post. It is a portal of handy info and links that is designed to offer comfort, convenience, and safety for the Nomad life. All the best in your travels.

Welcome to the Van Living Forum Jason :) Now that the weather is cooling down in some parts of the country, you may want to just start with a simple no-build and do some day trips and week end camp outs for a shake down. A few of those outings will give you a better idea of what to expect...

Welcome to the Van & RV forum ! Consider checking your fuel filter(s) first. Replace if possible and pour a can of "Sea Foam" fuel treatment into the gas tank with a fill up. Have a qualified mechanic go over the cooling system, checking the hoses, thermostat, and if there is a thermostatic...

Just finished this article about the "50 Greatest Coming of Age Novels". When I first traveled with my van to find a career after graduating, it was my coming of age on the road. I encountered things I wasn't expecting much less ready for. But I was able to cope and grow from the...

Back in the late 60's and into the 70's when custom vans began to become the thing so many people were getting into, magazines began to show up on the news stands. Many of them had advertisements from companies offering paper patterns one could use to cut out panels from plywood (for the...

If you are around some of the Dollar Stores you may find these small ceramic tea light candle lamps. Some have a cup shaped vessel on the top side where you could put a small quantity of water and a Menthol Eucalyptus Cough Drop and or a peppermint hard candy. There are even Citronella scented...

As the Van Nomad movement and interest in home built RV's grows in the States this may give Ford, GM, and Chrysler some incentive to consider creating their own software programs to customize their Vans as well. Years ago I read Ralph Nader's book "Unsafe At Any Speed" and remember his...

I think you did the best thing in vacating. Yellow Jackets (America's idea of killer bees) are nothing to fool with. I live right on the Ohio River and seem to always have some of them around. They get under my decks which are underpinned with aluminum soffits or they burrow in the ground...