Meant to post this on Monday, but we had no electricity or phone service: So this just happened. We’re currently on our way south through Baja and arrived in La Paz yesterday afternoon. We heard about a hurricane from some other campers so we asked the locals how safe the local beach would be during […]
Nikki and I have been debating on the Sprinter’s capabilities as a vehicle for our South America trip since we started thinking about the trip in the first place. Most other people seem to be doing this in 4×4 vehicles (Land Rovers, 4Runners etc.). We know that it’s possible to do the trip with pretty […]
Our 2008 Sprinter came with the factory radio installed, a Sound 5 model, which is a pretty basic radio with an in-dash CD player. We have been debating to get a new radio, but decided to stick with the standard model but retrofit an aux-in headphone cable. We wanted to avoid Apple earphones for this […]
After celebrating the world cup in Jackson, WY, we started heading south towards Salt Lake City. As we came down in elevation, temperatures reached 95+ degrees again, too hot for any serious outdoor activity. After a stop by the Orem Mercedes dealer for some spares, and a quick walk in Provo Canyon, we decided to […]
For our electrical system, we wanted to go without the need to hook up to shore power at all. That meant that we were looking to limit our energy usage as much as possible, and being able to charge the battery while driving (from the alternator) as well as when parked for a few days […]
After sorting out our car and mosquitoe troubles (previous post), our next stop was Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario’s first provincial park. The park was only a relatively short drive from Bon Echo, so we got to the visitors center early in the morning. Algonquin is known as a canoeist’s paradise, with over 1,000 lakes that […]
We arrived in Montreal on Monday night. Given our setup, stealth camping seemed the obvious choice, so we drove around the city trying to find a quiet spot. We had no luck around the Olympic park, so we decided to drive back to the city center to find a wealthy neighborhood with little traffic. Intuitively we […]
We officially moved into the van and hit the road this morning! It’s very rewarding to see the van come together so well after so much effort has been put into researching, designing and building the conversion. The process has definitely taught us a lot but with certainty, there is plenty more that we’ll learn […]
Nikki has been getting started on our instagram account, where we’re planning to post regularly from our trip. At the moment you can see some of our progress on the van build. We’re pretty far along with the furniture and hope to be completely done by the end of the month, so we can finally […]
We’ve both been busy for over a month now on our van. After the initial hassles of buying it and worrying whether we made the right choice we got right to it. We ended up with a 2008 Dodge Sprinter, with about 90k miles. The body was in decent condition (although there were some small […]