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Traveler7

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Posted: 07/09/16 08:43pm

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Your work is inspiring!

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Posted: 07/11/16 06:39am

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Traveler7 wrote:

Your work is inspiring!

Thanks! Just a farm boy who became a science teacher in a small rural school for 41 years. I love to tinker, make old things look new again, repair and innovate. I am having loads of fun in my retirement with my old Corvette and van camper. Like my wife says, "That van camper is never finished" because I am always looking for ways to improve it.

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Posted: 08/11/16 01:42pm

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The latest addition to my camper van was to upgrade the door/courtesy lights to blue LED's. My van is indigo blue metallic.
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Then I added the name tag to the door that my sister gave me, as we call the big blue van the "Cookie Monster."
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I just updated my "Cookie Monster" name tag with a "stickie."
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We have this guy sitting on the dash:
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Posted: 08/12/16 06:48am

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I like it! Good idea about the lights. I may try that.

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Next I am hoping to replace all the reading lights with LED bulbs but haven't found any that fit yet. I have extra blue LED's for the door/courtesy lights if you like that color. Yours for the shipping. I bought a pack of ten and only needed three.

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Posted: 08/13/16 01:48pm

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That is too cool. I had to sell my project van. My mother died suddenly and I needed to generate some cash so I sold it. The buyer wanted a professional mechanic to look at it and turns out it was in amazing shape, even had a newly rebuilt transmission. I didn't even know that part. Anyway, we traveled out of state in the old motorhome and it did fine for the entire trip. Still, I want to convert another van into a camper some day. It's better than a motorhome for road trips, keeps the panic down on those lost mountain winding roads.

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Posted: 08/13/16 04:16pm

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falconbrother wrote:

That is too cool. .............. Anyway, we traveled out of state in the old motorhome and it did fine for the entire trip. Still, I want to convert another van into a camper some day. It's better than a motorhome for road trips, keeps the panic down on those lost mountain winding roads.

Thanks. I am having fun with my van in my retirement. I, too, have a bigger camper, it being a 23 foot trailer camper. But I find myself using and liking the van camper conversion more than the big camper. Next week I am taking the van camper to the Minnesota Renaisance Festival and on to the northern part of Minnesota for some time off in the north woods.

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Posted: 08/26/16 12:20pm

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Today's addition to my conversion van is a step box to make it easier for an older guy like me to get up and into it. I made it about 5 1/2" high, 12" deep, and 20" wide so that it would fit in the door well opening when we travel. Now to paint it blue to go with my rear box and the color of the van.
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I talked my wife into painting my step for me, then I added some black rubber step tread with stickie back and a "Cookie Monster" vinyl stickie on front. Now it is done.
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Posted: 08/26/16 01:06pm

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I thought about that too especially for my elderly dogs then I discovered that there are two steps and I could train myself to use both of them. The dog having trouble recently shuffled off the mortal coil.

Ingrid and Dan Retired teachers from Milwaukee, WI
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