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We scanned through that food article, it's ok. The bottom line is you'll be living out of a vehicle for three months so what you eat should be no different than living in a house. Sure, you can scale it down to one pot meals and use mostly rotisserie chicken(s) but what you are eating today is...

We have never blocked anyone on any platform, we’re adults.

If you’re going to block someone for stating their opinion, might as well go ahead and block us too.

Welcome to the new world order. Actually this has been in the making for several decades. Auto manufacturers only have to supply parts for 10 years. In the case of your Jeep, I'm surprised that the part has been dropped since it could be within the 10 year period (you stated production...

China has swapable batteries but to scale it for even 30% of vehicles…not gonna happen (unless there are a lot less people/ allowed drivers). While there is a niche market for electric vehicles, for overlanding…nope. We do prefer more remote places, no service(s), so if we were only going to...

Just watch Long Way Up. Sure they made it, but the trip definitely wasn't about the Pan-Am, it was about charging. The diesel generator that had to follow them around should be a dead giveaway and what happened to the van that was supposed to supply solar power. Everything probably looked great...

They are two different worlds competing for the same title. Coming from the long term travel side, you can imagine the issues when we were on panels at Expo telling people they do not need long travel to drive the Americas. Those coming from the 4x4 side told us we were idiots, I simply replied...

We have run both and recommend AGM. A decent automatic charge relay or battery link from Blue Sea Systems is all one needs to connect the vehicle AGM bank to the house AGM bank. If solar is also present either device will automatically separate and join the banks for starting and when either...

Eggs can be left out, even after being refrigerated, for a long time. We keep our refrigerated store bought eggs in their cartons in a small bin, unrefrigerated. Worked for 7 years while we were full time. On many occasions we had eggs for over three weeks without issue. If you are worried...

We obviously like a lot of color. We have discussed dipping the van turquoise or green but we both really like the orange so we'll probably keep with it.

If you don't need anything padded, we really like our Grand Trunk Parasheet. Our original one finally gave up the beginning of this year (after 8 years) so we bought another. We also bought a waterproof one 4 years ago but Mandi only uses that one under her Yoga mat to keep it from getting wet...

If you are asking about the exterior color, yes. That was when it was plasti dipped, now it is painted orange but we are considering dipping it again. Not only was the exterior maintenance easier, we never had any condensation issues when the van was dipped. The plasti dip lasted about 5 years...

We built out our van ourselves and are quite proud that our setup lasted through full-time use from 2015-2022 (100k miles and 17 countries). Our advice is to keep it as simple as possible. With a van, you have a big advantage of having an inside space. When we were reaching out to others before...

We use Tupperware Spice Containers. When we bought ours it was a set of the small and large sizes along with a carousel for in home use. When transitioning to the van we bought a Really Useful Box (I think this is the size) that we could put 4 containers deep by 3 containers wide and either 1...

We can attest to the build quality of Engels. We did 7 years, 100K miles, and 17 countries with ours. We lived on remote beaches, steamy jungles, and up above 14K feet in the Andes (drove as high as 16K). We had only two stints of it having to be turned off for a period of time, a week to ship...

While I agree a full fridge is more efficient, we stored our van twice with an empty and on fridge. We of course were parked in direct sunlight, we left the fridge on to put a drain on the battery to let the solar recover it each day. First time was two months, the second time was three. Our...

Don't waste your money. Be honest about what you plan on being capable of tackling and repurpose gear you already own. In the end, you'll just be camping...either in a campground or at the end of a challenging trail. Keeping the camping gear as minimal as possible will result in a comfortably...

Reminds me of the Simpson's episode where Homer went gangbusters getting signs all around town.

We've witnessed many of the type gurgling on the ground. It's not the 5-10 friends, it's the 100-200+ family members that will heed the call.

We have dispersed camped all over the country and can say, from our experience, there is a different approach depending on where you are. In the south, retribution is common and accepted even though it's somewhat changing due to demographic shifts. If someone is bold enough to take someone's...