DreamTransit1
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Always been a car/van camper. Started in '73 with a Chevy Vega Hatchback. That was plenty big enough for my girlfriend at the time and myself. At 5'6" I didn't need a Shag Wagon like all of my buddies were moving up to. Helped them cut plenty of sheet metal for portholes though.
Real life started to interfere a lot, but by the time I had three kids and a wife I started to use the family mini van to continue the tradition. Only now I used it for camping with the two youngest...the boys.
Moved up to an E-150 in '94, and all five of us could sleep sideways. Pulled a custom aluminum utility trailer for the "stuff".
Purchased a 170" tall Sprinter brand new in '08, and did a lot of stealth camping in that for six years. After it was totaled by a felonious driver I was vanless for a year while sorting out the new offerings that were delayed from coming to the market by several years, and had to rely on a Honda Element we had in the family.
Took delivery of the longest tallest Transit 250 cargo w/ windows 3.5 Ecoboost in January '15, and now have 25,000 miles and 18 weeks in it.
More than enough room....the kids are now grown, youngest just turned 25.
Maybe it was the van camping instead of the Hilton, but after 30 years of marriage the wife wants out.
She's keeping the house, I'm retiring and hitting the road.
I've moved all of my stuff into an airplane hangar for storage, and the Transit fits as well.
Gives a whole new meaning to stealth camping!
Depending on how long it takes to tie up loose ends here with dissolving the business as well as marriage I should be permanently on the road by September. Definitely a few multi week trips before that though.
Like the wording on the only non-functional decorative item in the Transit that I picked up a few weeks ago at the JAX Beach Springing the Blues festival (a small wooden surfboard shaped painted placque)...."When Life Makes Waves.....Enjoy the Ride!"
Real life started to interfere a lot, but by the time I had three kids and a wife I started to use the family mini van to continue the tradition. Only now I used it for camping with the two youngest...the boys.
Moved up to an E-150 in '94, and all five of us could sleep sideways. Pulled a custom aluminum utility trailer for the "stuff".
Purchased a 170" tall Sprinter brand new in '08, and did a lot of stealth camping in that for six years. After it was totaled by a felonious driver I was vanless for a year while sorting out the new offerings that were delayed from coming to the market by several years, and had to rely on a Honda Element we had in the family.
Took delivery of the longest tallest Transit 250 cargo w/ windows 3.5 Ecoboost in January '15, and now have 25,000 miles and 18 weeks in it.
More than enough room....the kids are now grown, youngest just turned 25.
Maybe it was the van camping instead of the Hilton, but after 30 years of marriage the wife wants out.
She's keeping the house, I'm retiring and hitting the road.
I've moved all of my stuff into an airplane hangar for storage, and the Transit fits as well.
Gives a whole new meaning to stealth camping!
Depending on how long it takes to tie up loose ends here with dissolving the business as well as marriage I should be permanently on the road by September. Definitely a few multi week trips before that though.
Like the wording on the only non-functional decorative item in the Transit that I picked up a few weeks ago at the JAX Beach Springing the Blues festival (a small wooden surfboard shaped painted placque)...."When Life Makes Waves.....Enjoy the Ride!"
