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 […]
Tag: van life
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 #3: Temporary Bed Platform
Alright, moving forward with the van project. I feel I want a murphy bed for my van, but how do I really know until I do it, right? What is easier and cheaper is building a temporary platform and going from there. So this is what I set out to do. As a hobby, I build […]
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 […]
