Author: Christina Nalen
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Building with 80/20 Bones
Framing – Aluminum Sytem March 28, 2021 Bill has been so excited to start getting the parts delivered that he needs in order to get the bones built. The frame of each piece of the build is being made out of 8020 (pronounced, eighty twenty) aluminum rails series 15 and many of their other parts…
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Camper Van Buried in Snow
Everything Came to a Halt 3/21/21 Wow. It didn’t take long for everything to come to a halt. Cheyenne, Wyoming received 31-36″ of snow in just two days. Yeah, that’s like 3′ of snow and the snow drifts were up to 6′ or more. The delivery trucks had found us in our brand new neighborhood…
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Van Running Board…Umm…Bored
March 6, 2021 Well this was a project that took a LOT longer than anticipated. Not a great start to building out our van. Reviews said that this was a difficult, time consuming, frustrating addition to put on, and they were right. Lining the bolts through the holes proved to be very difficult trying to…
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Van Insulated Window Covers
Camper Van Custom Window Shades Window covers for your van cost so much money and I am a fairly creative creature who does not like to spend more money than I have to. I like a good project and I don’t like to follow directions or patterns, but rather like to come up with my…
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Cardboard Cabinets
We’ve been trying out some more 3d ideas to see how everything will fit, including us!! Bill has been using cardboard and some thin wood planks to build our latest layout thoughts. We did realize that we needed a smaller stove top and that a one-burner should suffice instead of two anyway. The stove top…
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Mr. Knightley Day Excursion
Mr. Knightly overlooking the ice-covered reservoir. After eyeballing different floor plans and adding more insulation, we took Lacey (my husky-mix) and Okra (my daughter’s dog that we are sitting for) on a day excursion to Curt Gowdy State Park. Why did we name our van? Much to the dismay of Bill, I named our van…