Brent is a fellow Overlander at heart. He is a tech writer for Gizmoto and other publications, and has decided to live in a\u00a0van. You can follow his journey at his website:<\/p>\n
Connected States<\/p>\n
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\tBRENT ROSE for Wired Magazine<\/a> in “GEAR” THE LAST TIME I packed up my apartment to move, I realized I didn\u2019t really know where I wanted to move to. I was tired of sitting in one spot and I was tired of paying rent. Since I\u2019m a writer and have the advantage of being able to work from virtually anywhere, I decided to take that concept to its logical extreme<\/a>.<\/p>\n In the Spring of 2015 I bought a 2006 Gulf Stream Vista Cruiser G24, and after a couple months of fixing it up, I started living in it full-time. It\u2019s basically a small RV built into a Freightliner Sprinter chassis. All the goodies under the hood are made by Mercedes Benz, but it didn\u2019t have that MB sticker price. I found one in Oregon with just 35,000 miles on it and I bought it on the spot. It had taken me more than five months to find the model that had what I needed (a separate work area and sleep area, a storage compartment big enough for a surfboard and a folding mountain bike, good gas mileage and easy drive\/parkability). I was overjoyed.<\/p>\n But it wasn\u2019t perfect. No. I mean, come on, these things are built for retirees. I, unfortunately, am still very much on the clock, and my job requires a fair amount of technology, too. I had to keep my gadgets not only charged, but safe. I had to make the space not only functional, but comfortable and fun.<\/p>\n So I\u2019ve been pimping it out. I\u2019m talking about a full solar panel\/lithium battery package from AM Solar<\/a>, Viper Security\u2019s\u00a05806 system<\/a>\u00a0plus GPS SmartStart<\/a>,\u00a0the Viking Security Safe VS-38BL<\/a>\u00a0with fingerprint scanner, mood lighting with the color-changing\u00a0the Enevu Cube<\/a>, mobile Internet with\u00a0a\u00a0Verizon Jetpack MiFi 6620L<\/a>, and Pioneer\u2019s top of the line\u00a0AVIC-8100NEX<\/a>\u00a0(with Android Auto and Apple CarPlay), which the boys at\u00a0All Pro Audio<\/a> in Santa Clara, California had to carve open my dashboard and completely rebuild it to install, adding in a badass fake faceplate into the mix. Basically, I went all out. Watch the video above for more detail.<\/p>\n Follow Brent\u2019s van-tastic adventures atConnectedStates.com<\/a>, and on Twitter<\/a>, Instagram<\/a>, andFacebook.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Brent is a fellow Overlander at heart. He is a tech writer for Gizmoto and other publications, and has decided to live in a\u00a0van. You can follow his journey at his website: Connected States Original Story By: BRENT ROSE for Wired Magazine in “GEAR” DATE OF PUBLICATION: 09.21.15.09.21.15 TIME OF PUBLICATION: 9:01 AM.9:01 AM THE […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32,23,26,20,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trips","category-gear","category-news","category-vehicle","category-videos","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.overlandbound.com\/marketing-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.overlandbound.com\/marketing-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.overlandbound.com\/marketing-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.overlandbound.com\/marketing-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.overlandbound.com\/marketing-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.overlandbound.com\/marketing-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.overlandbound.com\/marketing-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.overlandbound.com\/marketing-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\tDATE OF PUBLICATION: 09.21.15.09.21.15
\n\tTIME OF PUBLICATION: 9:01 AM.9:01 AM<\/p>\n