On the Road

It was nice to see many of you at Overland Expo West.

It’s been really great to take the camper out lately. In total, Yvonne and I have spent 20 nights out with it, and it is so much better now with the final interior and finished pop top. It’s really comfortable and cozy for the two of us, and all of the interior storage makes everything stay nice and organized, and that keeps it from feeling like car camping.

There is so much room now with the pop-top up. It makes a huge difference in comfort during the day, when changing clothes, when cooking meals, and it was great to sleep with the upper windows zipped open on hot nights down in the Sonoran Desert. That being said, a few of the nights at Expo were a little cool, so we experimented with sleeping with the top down for those nights, and it was cozy and warm that way. We are really happy with the bed being down below and how it gives us the option of sleeping and sitting with the top down or top up depending on the weather.

The camper systems work great so far, so I think we are ready for more trips. It feels strange having the build “finished” now, and I’m finding myself in an odd mental transition period between build and travel. We need to start pulling together some travel plans.