Hello, lovey. It's been a while since I've made any lists. I'm not even sure I have any still up, after my last deleting spree. But I feel like it's time to make a new one anyway, because lots of little and big things have changed.
Okay so, a little backstory first - like a weekish before daddy died, he bought one of the big fleet work/murder vans from his employer. He was just 4 months from retirement and apparently the plan was to travel and camp and live that whole #vanlife experience. The van is literally a shell in the back, no seats, no insulation or interior furnishings. It does have an etrack on each wall, though.
Since it's mine now and I hate paying $290,543,768,591 every month in rent and bills, I wanna live in the van and keep daddy's dream alive.
So, my current van life list is:
- 500w portable power station with solar panels
- a butt ton of heavy duty magnetic hooks
- camp stove
- camp shower (the bag kind)
- e-track wood beam sockets (8) and
- 4 2x4s, length TBD, and
- plyboard, size TBD
- a small, basic tool kit
- carpet tiles, rug or some other kind of flooring
- USB lighting
- USB fan
- collapsible water jugs (5gal)
- camp toilet (owned)
- cooler (owned)
- weather radio (owned)
- small folding table
- insulation (wool)
I'm poor white trash, so it'll probably take me 500 years to get all these things, but I think I can do most of it for less than $1,000 with the most pricey bits being the power station and tool kit and this manual washer (it's $70!!!). That's a lot of money for me, I suppose it's a lot of money for a lot of people right now but in my head it's pretty reasonable compared to those vanlife videos I see where they build a walk-in shower, a mini-bar, a petting zoo, a helicopter landing pad, and an olympic sized pool for *only* $78,000.
It's always around me, all this noise
But not nearly as loud as the voice saying
Let it happen
Let it happen
