A friend of mine had sent me a post a while back of someone spraying their entire van with tintable bedliner and I recall seeing another kayaker having that style on his truck. After a fair amount of research, posting on forums, etc., I decided to pull the trigger on a black Rapter bedliner (link is […]
Category: van life
Exterior Overhaul
I am working on finishing the exterior of the van so that I can start on the interior. I wanted to get bigger tires and lift the van. I didn’t want to go crazy and wanted to go with the simplest option. I decided on a 2″ body lift so that I didn’t have to […]
Custom Roof Rack: Part Two
Long lull in blog posts; I blame my full time job! Anyway… To the point, here is the final part of the van’s custom roof rack; the roller. This is what I was most excited about. It is pretty sweet. You prop a boat up on it, go to the back of the boat, lift […]
Custom Roof Rack: Part One
One thing that I wanted to add to the van was a custom roof rack mainly due to I wanted to be able to load as many kayaks on top as possible and anything that I could find to buy didn’t extend over the van, rather it confined the rack system to the factory roof […]
Van Life Random Thoughts
Nothing earth shattering in this post. Rather, I camped out of the van again and this time, with the temporary fixed bed platform. Also added was my brand new laptop to be able to watch a movie if I wanted. I did start to watch the movie “The Hero” but I rarely make it through […]
Kayaker Van Life
This is the first of hopefully many posts about taking a passenger van and converting it into the ultimate whitewater kayaking camper. Here is the background to making the decision to go from a 4×4 truck to a van: I wanted to head to Canada and California this previous July but circumstances stacked up and […]
