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Hi friends!  I have been away for quite some time.  In 2011 I bought a 2007 Chevy Express van, converted it, and traveled around Iowa.  In 2014 I lived in it for a few months following the death of my father.  I bought a trailer home later that year and kept the van for casual camping.  In 2018...

[/URL]  Hello!  I've been away for a bit.  Some of the friends will remember me as Van Trekker.  Back in 2011 I converted a Chevy cargo van.  For several years I resided in it on my dad's property.  After he died, I lived out of it for a summer on a farm.  Now I'm back in a homebase (which I...

Hey friends! I've not been on here much lately but have been busy. At the moment I'm working at the "Golden Arches" and really like it but the income stream is ... well... sort of a dry creek. To help, I decided to try a recipe collection on my blog. Being a semi-obessed trout fisherman, I...

For most of three years, I had been sleeping in a van and traveling around camping and fishing while also looking over Dad's affairs. Dad died at the end of November, the house is now sold, and in two weeks I'll be houseless! A friend is going to rent some space to me on his farm so there...

Hi Friends, Glen Harris, my dad, died this morning just a few hours ago. He was in a nursing home and despite them giving him oxygen, he was too weak to breathe it in. His wishes were to pass naturally. Dad was fortunate enough to depart in his sleep. Part of me wishes I could have said...

<p>It's kind of depressing watching my bank account go down, down, down....&nbsp; I'm between jobs and it seems like it's getting harder and harder to find anything.&nbsp; Perhaps it's my age or plus sized figure.&nbsp; It might be that these minimum wage jobs now want to do a background check...

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<br>Money is tight and getting tighter.&nbsp; With Dad in the nursing home, I've started eating there at least four or five times per week.&nbsp; The best part is that it is totally FREE to me!<br><br>The Manor Care nursing home actually invited me to eat there any time they are serving, even...

Holidays are tough sometimes.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br><br>For the first time today, I felt really alone.&nbsp;Dad is in the nursing home and is losing touch with reality. The dementia is worsening, his body weakening, etc. I was stressed out about Dad's bills and nursing home stay, my employment...

<div style="text-align: left;"><img class="bbc_img" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wUDDDDJV_Ow/UWaq9fjcK5I/AAAAAAAAFsU/6KYx0Ne_H4Y/s320/Camping+upside+down+cakes.jpg" rel="lightbox"><br><br>Here's a new recipe from my cooking blog.&nbsp; It's pineapple upside down cake using a portion of a cake...

<p>Thanks in advance for your help!&nbsp;&nbsp;Life's been very tough for me lately and I thought that&nbsp;updating the van's color scheme to make it a little more relaxing&nbsp;would be a fun&nbsp;project.&nbsp; The problem is that I'm a geek and can only seem to match things with khaki.&nbsp...

We've had some developments lately and I wanted to share how this unusual living arrangement is helping my Dad and I in a way I didn't anticipate.&nbsp; Some of us in the group are caregivers and live on someone's property.&nbsp; Some are&nbsp;concerned about where to go after a change.&nbsp...

<br><br>Apparently the more sophisticated storage facilities are becoming wise to people wanting to live more cheaply by inhabiting the garages!<br><br>This morning I rented a garage for Dad's antiques while we clean up his house.&nbsp; To get in and out of this fenced in facility, one has to...

Friends,<br><br>I made&nbsp;a recipe for van-cooked Rabbit Stew.&nbsp; It's customized for small sized, crockpot cooking and uses salad bar ingredients.&nbsp; Good stuff!<br><br><img class="bbc_img"...

<img class="bbc_img" src="http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/c33.0.200.200/p200x200/540773_406797859401057_562740425_n.jpg" rel="lightbox"><br><br>To the left are the rear doors of the van.&nbsp; To the right is the homemade bulkhead wall.&nbsp; I put this chair on a lid that hinges...

<img class="bbc_img" src="http://icanhasdiary.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/navin-r-johnson.jpg" rel="lightbox"><br><br>It's not always easy to find a low end job that won't work you to death or multitask your brain to mush.&nbsp; I think being a gas station cashier&nbsp;has a lot of benefits for...

<img class="bbc_img" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BFR84ODZMME/UN987M2Y4KI/AAAAAAAAFUE/Z2MT65C_JL0/s320/Power+Inlet+all+burned+to+shit+because+I+was+a+dumb+ass.jpg" rel="lightbox"><br><br>Be careful with using cheap power cords that are barely rated to handle the current you are trying to...

<img style="width: 182px; height: 116px;" class="bbc_img" src="http://i.usatoday.net/money/gallery/autos/wheels/m090702_fordtaurus/c3a.JPG" rel="lightbox"><br><br><br>Don't get me wrong - I'm not bashing Fords but don't like this one feature.&nbsp; Here is why.<br><br>These days I'm working at a...

<p><img class="bbc_img" src="http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/s480x480/150901_397660170314826_1648037774_n.jpg" rel="lightbox"><br><br>Yeah, that's V.T. getting a water refill at the Salvation Army Christmas dinner today.&nbsp; I didn't see that darn news camera till it was too...

All you need is 1/2C brown sugar, 1/4C spicy brown mustard, and 1T orange or pineapple juice...&nbsp; just put on any kind of ham and bake at a low temperature... It is amazing and livens up ham or turkey.<br /><br /><br /><br />This and some other recipes are on my new camping recipes&nbsp;blog...