Happy Friday! Adventure day. We start with a moving van that a guy turned into a genuinely finished off-grid home, then head out to a London double-decker parked in Italy, a wheelchair-accessible ProMaster, a 1979 VW pop-top, and four more rigs built to keep moving.

🚚 A 25-Year-Old Moving Van, Off-Grid​
New today: most people look at a worn white box van and see deliveries. Maxwell Peters looked at a 25-year-old Ford E-350 and saw a finished home — solar on the roof, a full galley, tall enough to stand in, and a desk to actually work from.

🚌 A London Bus, Now a Summer Home​
Roberto and Silvia bought a beat-up double-decker London bus in Italy and turned it into a family summer home for four, with a large porch off the side for eating and sitting out. Two floors, no foundation.

♿ Wheelchair-Accessible Van Life​
After neurological issues pushed Tanya into early retirement, she and Derec built a Ram ProMaster into a fully accessible home on wheels — an under-vehicle lift, a lowered bed, hand controls, and a bathroom trailer behind.

🚐 A 1979 VW Pop-Top Camper​
Few vehicles carry as much van life mythology as the VW Type 2. This Riviera pop-top out of Tacoma is an unusually well-preserved one, and the pop-top is still the cleverest way ever devised to get standing room in a small van.

🛻 A 4x4 Box Van Conversion​
The Ford E-450 is one of the most capable platforms going for a full-size conversion. Timberline Vans in Golden, Colorado takes commercial box vans and turns them into 4x4 rigs that can actually get down a forest road.

🚲 A Van With Roll-Out Bike Storage​
The hard part of van life for cyclists is bringing the bikes without losing the living space. This ProMaster 2500 by Wanderful Wheels in Durango solves it with an interior roll-out tray that slides the bikes clean out the back.

🚿 A Van With an Indoor Shower​
Zephyr fits a full indoor bathroom into just over four square feet. The toilet hides inside a cube that converts into the shower basin — and there is still an oven and sleeping room for three.

⛺ An Off-Road Teardrop Trailer​
The opposite end of the spectrum from a 30-foot THOW: no plumbing, no standing room, and a galley you cook from outdoors. What you get instead is a trailer an ordinary vehicle can tow almost anywhere.

"I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move."
~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Thanks for being here. I appreciate you 🙏
​ Alex

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