Exploring Blog – The White Turtle. This is my old blog posts about my build and the early days with the van.
Road trip to Red Rock Coulee If you are looking for an amazing road trip may I suggest Red Rock …
Mud Flaps
Back in December I ordered a set of mud flaps for the White Turtle III. It was actually the van’s Christmas present. They arrived a week into the cold snap that we had and I was not going to try installing them at -30 or -50. So today all the ice and snow melted in the driveway and it was warm enough to install.
RV Heat
RV heat that magical thing that can turn a cold night into a toasty warm experience and make the great outdoors seem a lot more tame. When I wrote about cold weather camping I wanted to include more information on furnaces but it was quickly getting off topic. So I decided that I would write just about RV heat. There is a lot of misinformation about RV furnaces so I want to dispelled some of the myths.
Well it has been a while since I got my new boots. So I thought it would be time for …
Ice Fishing & photography I have never been ice fishing. But if I was to go it would be inside …
I never had a chance to make it out a lot this past year on the kayak but with the …
I hear from many people that say you cannot enjoy cold weather camping. Well I am here to say yes …
Whenever I am out shooting I usually don’t take pictures of my van as I am shooting other things. Last …
An afternoon trip to Writing on Stone this past weekend. It was overcast and cool but the colors were amazing!!! …
Part 2 Saskatchewan Sand Hills – If you want to visit part 1 click here. The Saskatchewan sand hills are an …
Part 1 Another Bucket list Item For a number of years I have wanted to go to the Saskatchewan Sand …
Check off The Yellow-bellied Marmot I have never written down a bucket list but I do have one or should …
Read moreMy photographic bucket list – Yellow-Bellied Marmot
I have been learning a lot with the build of my van……… it has been a lot of fun, a challenge and I have to say again FUN!!! I love learning new things and building the van has really challenged me to learn. Looking at the van today I am 100% done with the functional part of the build. I could leave tomorrow and drive anyplace in the world and the van would do what I want it to.
So doing the initial build was easy, but I am still doing the little finishing that needs to be done. As mentioned before I hate to preplan the build to far in advance as things seem to change as the build progresses. So I had a pile of small finishing projects to work on that I managed to get done over the past week.
Once the wiring was done to get a basic van electrical system running from the van battery to the new house battery it was time to hook up the accessories to run the van’s electrical appliances. I was doing this work to power the fridge and the Espar heater now and for some lights and a fan later on.
It is electrical !!!!! After putting it off I finally got around to working on the vans house electrical system. I love electrical but at the same time it scares me. The biggest issue is connecting the house battery to the van, but after reading and laying out diagrams I went for it.
Join me in Writing on Stone for a spring visit! I take a drive and a camping trip to Writing …
Spring – no snow! If you do not live where the temperatures drop crazy low and the snow piles up …
So I thought that I would head out to Waterton yesterday (March 31, 2018) to get some pictures. On the way there I made a detour to Police lake area to see what was out and about. WELL there was a lot of snow out and about 🙂 . The main highways were good but the other roads were really covered and as I was getting closer to Police Lake the amount of snow on the roads got a lot deeper. The best thing about it was that there was hardly anybody on the road except for a few farmers feeding cattle.
Many of my friends and clients know about the new company vehicle that I am working on. In case you didn’t I will put some updates and information here on the blog for you to follow along with. (also it is too hard to keep sending out information to people that ask about the progress so I can link it here under the category VAN ).