After several months of anticipation, the Aluminess bumpers and boxes are on the van! A quick note on weight difference seen at the scales; the stock bumpers verses aluminess bumpers/boxes/recovery-gear is ~80 pounds more with the new setup. Well worth the wee-bit extra weight for the functionality we gain.
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highlights of our 2010 Chevy Express AWD & 2017 RAM Promaster builds.
Oregon – Yellowbottom Campground
Yellowbottom Recreation Site is a well maintained BLM campground located within the Quartzville Creek Recreation area near Sweet Home Oregon. The campground offers 22 first come-first served tent sites in an old growth forest along the beautiful Quartzville Creek. There is a nice modern pit toilet and there is a hand-pump well that is sometimes…
Oregon – Quartzville Creek
Quartzville Wild and Scenic River is an easy drive northeast of Sweet Home Oregon off i5 near Albany. This is another one of those must visit annually places for us. The BLM has set aside an ~eleven mile area that runs along the Santiam River for gold prospecting and dispersed camping. Anywhere you see a fire…
Washington – Lower Falls
Above is an image of the falls taken from the trail that looks down on the falls. Lower Falls Campground is a must see if you happen to be going anywhere near Cougar Washington off i5. There are ~2 dozen sites that are available by online reservation, and another ~2 dozen that are first-come-first served…
Washington – Sunset Falls
Above is an image of the falls at the campground. Sunset Falls Campground near Battle Ground Washington is usually our first stop of the “Season”. It is an enjoyable drive with several waterfall vistas on the way to the camp. There are ~a dozen well maintained sites and several pit-toilets. There is no water available….
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…