Mrs. Kevin and her husband,
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As you use your rig on weeking camping time, you will probably notice things you prefer... and things you can happily do without.
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Each rig is constantly evolving.
Just about everybody starts with an image of "My Ideal Rig", then quickly chucks that image in the bin.
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Our suggestion:
* Avoid thinking 'this rig is my forever rig'.
Toss in some car-camping gear, go have fun.
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Our rig:
2003, after a half-century of make-do camping in lesser rigs, we converted a 1996 Ford CF8000 commercial truck to our concept of an ExpeditionVehicle.
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Development of our rig also benefitted from our year and a hundred thousand miles delivering factory RecreateVehicles manufacturer-to-dealer and dealer-to-shows.
That experience showed typical factory RecreateVehicles would crumble to dust on the rough logger tracks we prefer to remote mountain lakes and across deserts to isolated Baja beaches.
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And yet, our rig is imperfect.
With over two decades full-time live-aboard, our rig is constantly evolving.
Our foundation vehicle checks most of the boxes for our purposes -- boondocking exclusively.
Somebody else might need significantly more interior space for entertaining or significantly less ground clearance.
Somebody else might like hook-ups at a pay-camp.
[Moderators [stands!, salutes!], not those kinds of 'hook-ups'.
I refer to hoses and cables and the exquisite joys of neighbors parked three paces away... on three sides of your 'spot'.]
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And pretty much nobody in their right mind needs a fuel range without re-fill of Anchorage-to-Acapulco.
But we do.
And that should pretty much invalidate anything we say, because we firmly believe that 'right mind' business is highly over-rated...
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[edited to add]
Our introduction with plenty of portraits, plus our reasons for our decisions:
https://vanlivingforum.com/threads/expeditionvehicle-build.44908/#post-576110
