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Not that this will help, but I use Mint (T-Mobile). It's good enough for my purposes and extremely cheap (literally $203 out the door for a year of service with enough data for my limited use), but the coverage out of urban areas varies from spotty to non-existent (and it often doesn't work...

I've had reasonable luck with Amazon but you do need to be really careful about the quantity you're promised. It's amazing how many quasi-scam offers there are, where you see the price and figure it must be a case of them, and then in the fine print it says you'll be paying $52 for One bottle...

March 15, 2024. Finally got the paperwork, hopefully I can register it smoothly today. The swivels are in, stiff but very effective. I dreamed for years of doing this kind of seat in the minivan, where there simply wasn't room for it, but my idea was spot on, this extends my living space and...

It appears to be missing some kind of rubber bumper that plugs into the van toward the rear of the slider, keeping it from shifting out of place when it's closed. I think it shifts over just as it's about to latch, causing a false-locking with maybe 1/4" gap left. I've also discovered that...

Thank you for all the suggestions! I love the idea about the computer fans, I feel like so much of what's being marketed to us these days is ridiculous overkill at a ridiculous markup. Most of my rolling-home experience has been in the Southwest, where temps can make the interior unbearable...

My two cents is that it's not so much plastic being produced that's the problem, it's our throw-away, gotta-have-a-new-thing economy that means the plastic products made are of a quality barely good enough to last one use. I think ironically the less plastic they put into each item, the less...

I'm just starting to gather info on the electrics. I'd like to be able to charge 2 lithium 30A batteries with either the car battery, shore power or solar (1 120W panel). This is a small system for the front of the van to run or recharge a bunch of small appliances, maybe up to 65W - fan...

I finally pulled the plug on all my car and minivan build aspirations and went for the real deal, a 2003 Sprinter with about 75,000 miles on it. Out the door price including tax, reg and fees, $14,065. In honor of my fallen comrade Bob (a 30 pound white kitty), I have christened the van Baba...

I finally pulled the plug on trying to do a mini van build and got me a 2003 Sprinter instead. My first issue: it's a Mercedes engine, and Mercedes does not issue key blanks to the hoi polloi, you have to go through a dealership. Pretty funny, it's a $13,000 van. Anyway, does anyone have...

Do you think it's possible to use a setup that pumps water into sink faucet and put it in 5 gallon water bottle? Something like this, only hooked to the sink instead of just an icemaker. I only need hot water for "showers" (I'd just use a sink faucet with sprayer), and I was wondering if this...

I found an older Sprinter standard top - interior height is about 64". Yesssss!!!!! Of course I'm now going to be calculating gallons per mile instead of the other way around, but I'm moving forward again. 😁

I have been watching Lady Bugout videos about her van life. She lives in a "high top transit connect". Someone said that she is 5'8" and her interior van height is 64". I'm pretty sure this is correct, when she's standing next to it, it appears to be about 6" taller than she is (on the...

What it comes down to for me is compromise. I'd like to do everything reasonable practical to reduce my footprint. But tanking my ability to be healthy and safe in a world more than happy to force me to compete and lose by sucking every last dollar out of my wallet and leaving me for dead...

I've been fiddling around with a Toyota Sienna and this guy blew me away. Some of it is overkill and I don't know where he puts clothes but he (Pasquale at Tiny Campers) has really found a way to fit Everything in here - even an indoor shower and a microwave! He's an engineer, and so many of...

... Unless we seriously change what we want to do with our lives minute to minute, I don't see that much to cut out. What I do see is a massive amount of duplication I can do without. I don't need a stepladder in the kitchen, the attic and the garage. I don't need a sink in the kitchen and...

Fold a regular sized "soft" (i.e. thin) pillow in half and sew a smaller pillow case for it. Much easier than doing pillow surgery, definitely better than throw pillows. You could also customize, possibly rolling lengthwise for a more tubular shape.

I take sort of a Paleo approach to fats and oils. Could my ancestors of 10000 years ago have procured this somehow - melting, churning, squeezing? If not, I won't eat it either. Dressing: if you're just avoiding added liquid oils: blend an avocado. You can thin it with plain yogurt for a...

Hang a cd from the ceiling. Spread your arms and be an airplane. (You can even make a shoooooosh noise as you fly around it, if you want.). Notice, the actual shape, the outline your eye sees, changes from round to oblong to a thin line. It happens if you jump over the cd or crawl under it...

Perhaps the struggle is the in between space. If you have so little that van life is just another pick up n go adventure, heck, why not. If you have so much that you can straddle the fence and live two lives, not such a risk either. But when you've got just enough to have everything to lose ...

I think my last van had what yours does, they called it a "jack-knife sofa". Looked good, seemed like a very practical setup. Turned out to be uncomfortable and too narrow as a couch, and uncomfortable and too wide as a bed. Yay. I don't blame you for wanting to be rid of it. I have been...