kygreg said:
The budget version of this would be the older Geo metro, cheap, very reliable and unlike the Prius super cheap to fix. I had one before that got up to 60 mpg. Some are higher. I talked to someone this week who just spent $2000 on a Prius battery. There is a Geo hatchback available near me right now. There is also the Ford Taurus wagon or hatchback 38 mpg. I'm leaning toward having more stow space with a wagon. Which your pointing out the clearance gets me back to a Subaru.
That heat all night long is a real positive. But I am drawn to sleeping in the tent using a sheepskin sleeping bag. A van with heater is the easier, more space, less work option.... I met a woman in Crestone Co last year who said she had lived in a van for several years and all her health problems cleared up...
its like there is no one size fits all... and I'm still pulled in different directions.
in Indian Ayurvedic medicine, which I find brilliant for the most part, sleeping in a metal bed is considered to be bad for the nerves. And cars are all metal. And I don't think its just an old fashioned stereotype that many women are prone to weak nerves, especially with a culture that is in an excess, burnout, overdrive, mode.
So in the quiet back part of my mind its the sheepskin bed and the geomancy of earth energy, sleeping with your head to the east and realigning your magnetic field so all your little cellular enzymes get a power boost for greater efficiency, that holds a quiet center.
Call it Earth medicine. So even with a van I think I would park and tent sleep for the majority of the time...
Right now in the middle of the night, rich Mongolian yurt style, with rugs and pillows sounds dreamy.
