Using Water From Fresh Water Sources as a Van Lifer The overland community is demanding more from modern adventure vans, and the latest is the ability to filter and fill your van water tank from fresh water sources water fully off grid. This means pulling water from a non-potable lake or stream, filtering it, and pumping it into your water tank. …
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Camper Van Cooking: What do You Need in Van Life Kitchen?
The Importance of a Well Designed Van Life Kitchen Though you basically live outside when you live van life, you should not feeling like you are camping everyday! You should absolutely have some “home” comforts in your camper van. One of those home comforts is a proper van life kitchen that allows you to make delicious, and cozy meals. This …
Our Van Life Tool Kit: What Tools Do We Travel With?
Do You Need a Van Life Tool Kit? Absolutely. Every van lifer should have some level of “van life tool kit” on board. Our homes on wheels go through an earthquake a day as we drive around, especially off road. This makes things prone to loosening, or even breaking. We guarantee you that there will come a point that you …
Definitive Tools List for a DIY Camper Van Conversion
A thorough list of tools you will need for your DIY camper van conversion broken down by van build system.
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Camper Van Heater Options for Your DIY Van Build
Choosing the right camper van heater is a combination of several factors including cost, effectiveness, and ease of install. Let us walk you through your options!
Complete Guide to Winter Van Life
Heaters, insulation, parking, filling water, and more. We dive into everything you need to know to succeed at Winter Van Life.
Recommended Fasteners for 80/20 Van Building
Fasteners and Extruded Aluminum Van Building One of our main goals of this blog is to simplify building camper vans out of extruded aluminum so that more DIY-ers can do it! We have tried a lot of techniques, fasteners, and tools, over the course of our van builds, and want to distill it down to what works and what doesn’t. …
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Camper Van Swivel Seat Comparison Guide
Choosing the right camper van swivel seat comes down to two main things: height and price. This is one of the easier decisions you will have to make during your van build!
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Complete Guide to Shower Options for Van Lifers
Van lifer shower options vary all the way from full standing showers, to pop up showers in a bench, to public showers. Let’s figure out what is right for YOU!
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Van Life Security System: SimpliSafe Review
Why do you need a camper van security system? If you are anything like us, you will never want to leave your camper van unattended because well, everything you own is in it. When someone breaks into a van life rig, it is essentially a car and house break in all-in-one. We want to do everything we can to deter …