Leaky roof
Well-known member
Good Morning all...
Well it’s morning here in South Africa, which, I’m sure you know, is a tiddly piece of rather attractive piece of real estate stuck on the Southern-most tip of the African continent...
So, an Introduction... Mmmmmm ... Complex...
There’s me single, and (61) this year. However I do have a family that began with me fostering a lad of 14 back in 1994, and he has now married & has 2 little’uns of his own.
It’s become a lifetime commitment, that I’m not sorry about... I have no regrets...
Still gainfully employed, still brick-n-morter bound, I’m happy with that, and get my “outdoor-fix” as and when the opportunity arises.
Although I’ve stealth camped many, many times over the years, more so when I was in my 20’s and on bikes, due to the very high prevalence of extremely violent crime, nowadays boondocking / stealth living is for the most part, it’s really not a good idea anymore
‘Sides, we don’t have resources like public land / dispersed camping and so on, which does make it even harder to do..
So why this forum?
Well here’s the thing.
My camping (or, as I refer to matters... "outdoorsing" habits have gone off in a different direction, and essentially I want to go back to touring round our country, but live out of my Vehicle, which is a 2002 Landrover discovery II.
But many of the places i want to go to, towing is not an option.... Perhaps more of that later?
And so the connection was made.
faced with the complex task of "How do I re-configure the Landy into a one person camper in such a way that it can easily be re-configured back to a truck and even further back, by bolting the seats back, into a large family vehicle", I started my "ether-search"
And, in my “ether-travels” Thanks to Slim Potatohead, who I see as a kindred spirit, one of your (Bob’s) videos came up, and I’ve since watched so many, I often find myself doubling up....
ANYHOW... Before I embarked on my own journey / adventure, I soaked up everything about re-configuring a SUV into a camper, and I believe I’ve come up with a very successful formulae, which just last week I did my first shakedown, and simply everything worked extremely well....
Well not quite everything, at the last minute I swopped out my 2 burner tabletop propane stove for one that has legs... And that was not such a great move..... But that easy...
So thanks to a ton of people, Thanks to Bob for giving me the inside-skinny on how to go about that, and do so successfully.
I’ve got a lot of pictures and posts which I did in our local camping forum, and if anybody is interested do let me know, and I’ll gladly tell the tale.
So, this is already a too-long-a-post, Here’s to all of you and hoping to hear from you fellas soon..
Kind regards.
PS. I'll figure out the posting refinements Like signature / avitare etc as I go along.
Well it’s morning here in South Africa, which, I’m sure you know, is a tiddly piece of rather attractive piece of real estate stuck on the Southern-most tip of the African continent...
So, an Introduction... Mmmmmm ... Complex...
There’s me single, and (61) this year. However I do have a family that began with me fostering a lad of 14 back in 1994, and he has now married & has 2 little’uns of his own.
It’s become a lifetime commitment, that I’m not sorry about... I have no regrets...
Still gainfully employed, still brick-n-morter bound, I’m happy with that, and get my “outdoor-fix” as and when the opportunity arises.
Although I’ve stealth camped many, many times over the years, more so when I was in my 20’s and on bikes, due to the very high prevalence of extremely violent crime, nowadays boondocking / stealth living is for the most part, it’s really not a good idea anymore
‘Sides, we don’t have resources like public land / dispersed camping and so on, which does make it even harder to do..
So why this forum?
Well here’s the thing.
My camping (or, as I refer to matters... "outdoorsing" habits have gone off in a different direction, and essentially I want to go back to touring round our country, but live out of my Vehicle, which is a 2002 Landrover discovery II.
But many of the places i want to go to, towing is not an option.... Perhaps more of that later?
And so the connection was made.
faced with the complex task of "How do I re-configure the Landy into a one person camper in such a way that it can easily be re-configured back to a truck and even further back, by bolting the seats back, into a large family vehicle", I started my "ether-search"
And, in my “ether-travels” Thanks to Slim Potatohead, who I see as a kindred spirit, one of your (Bob’s) videos came up, and I’ve since watched so many, I often find myself doubling up....
ANYHOW... Before I embarked on my own journey / adventure, I soaked up everything about re-configuring a SUV into a camper, and I believe I’ve come up with a very successful formulae, which just last week I did my first shakedown, and simply everything worked extremely well....
Well not quite everything, at the last minute I swopped out my 2 burner tabletop propane stove for one that has legs... And that was not such a great move..... But that easy...
So thanks to a ton of people, Thanks to Bob for giving me the inside-skinny on how to go about that, and do so successfully.
I’ve got a lot of pictures and posts which I did in our local camping forum, and if anybody is interested do let me know, and I’ll gladly tell the tale.
So, this is already a too-long-a-post, Here’s to all of you and hoping to hear from you fellas soon..
Kind regards.
PS. I'll figure out the posting refinements Like signature / avitare etc as I go along.
) so I have to say, frugal means you save on stupid stuff that is required for living or making life better...….ALL to put the hard earned saved bucks from being frugal toward WHAT you desire in life...freedom on the road and passion for hobbies or whatever floats your boat.
