It took a few years for my wife and I to get used to the near-90-inches of annual rainfall that we experience on the Oregon Coast, but we are officially over it. Many people I have met online over the years can’t imagine living in a poncho and goulashes; ) but we manage. And hey, most people…
Gear – How we roll
In general, our motto is to keep things simple. We enjoy dreaming up ways to address a need with the least amount of fuss. Call it campsite-minimalism : ) Individual “Gear” posts will be listed under “Gear” in the upper main menu. Our Van Conversion is all about that, though in a trail-bling sort of…
Our 2010 Chevy AWD Van, an eye-catching conversion
Below are some highlights of the conversion process for our 2010 Chevy AWD Van Conversion. For any who wish to dig deeper I have a build thread over at the Sportsmobile Forums at “Accrete’s AWD Chevy Van project” thread, though since i sold my original domain that hosted many of the images the textual ponders…
Urban Stealth Van
Sometime in 1980 I got an itch to roam free and live out of a small delivery van. I did some searching and found a slightly used Chevy high cube van at a dealer’s lot in Pacifica south of San Francisco. While not my van this image is a close approximation of what it looked…
Evolution of adventure rig, continued…
Chapter 1 of “Evolution of adventure rig” brought us up to about 1990. The time between the Westfalia ~1988/89 and fall of 2007 was filled with simple family adventures in the Volvo xc70 wagon. Lots of fun memories with the two kids before they headed off into the US Air Force. . . but no…
Evolution of an adventure rig
Way back in 1980 I purchased my first “Adventure rig”. A showroom, zero miles Toyota 4×4 SR5 mini pickup in yellow from a Sacramento California dealer while I was managing two record shops in the area. I had the dealer install a color matched fiberglass top and put two bucket seats back there and some…
3D Designs & Doodles
Below are a few sample images from various “seasons” in my life I utilized different PC based applications to create 3D Designs and digital art. From 2018 through 2020 I downsized my setup and utilized an iPad Pro 12.9 as my wife and I spent two years traveling in our two-van-caravan mentioned in the “Rigs”…
Power up your brain with Brainwave Entrainment
Back in the mid 1970’s i purchased my first of many electronic music synthesizers (Roland SH3a, System 100, System 100m)… Most of my experimentation involved my curiosity of how different tones and frequencies affected the brain. The method I had stumbled upon utilized detuning multiple Voltage Controlled Oscillators that were at the core of analog…