bullfrog said:
It's looking good but man what a lot of work you have done! Just curious would you do it this way again or go another route if you had known what you know now? Great job by the way!
Man, as I'm sitting here drenched in sweat just getting loaded and finalizing, thinking of how many HARD hours I've got in this thing...I don't know. If it was merely to buy an old camper to get ready just enough to travel and camp in I'd say no, wouldn't do it again. But, there's several different personal type sides to this.
I'd never even slept in a camper before, much less owned or renovated one but the nomad thing has been in my blood for a long time and this was part of a dream of mine. I had no intention of completely redoing it when I bought it but I was a novice and leapt before I looked enough. When I started doing a few things one thing led to another, and the opportunity and resources to do them came along so I went for it.
I think I've got a really solid build w/ good 'bones'...simple one or two person who are into minimal living type rig that can go, and stay, where a lot of folks can't or won't. When I showed the camper in progress to someone that knows me really well she said, "How symbolic that you're completely starting over with it"...and she was right. Made a decision about 5 months ago to create the life I knew would work best for me and that meant eliminating a lot of distractions and getting a very simple outlook at life and what is important to me in life.
So this was a cathartic labor project for me....there were days when I felt sorry for myself...old man doing all this by himself...lol, then I'd remember I'm the one that decided to do it so get with it or get on with something else! It's still work in progress but I'll always look back at this project and smile, for several different reasons.
If I were to do the same camper again I could do in half the time, I think, dependent on weather.
Thanks for the compliment!
It's cute, ha!
