Author: Van-Tramp

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Big Blue gets a butt-lift

Since I have purchased the Big Blue back in 2010, it has always had a saggy-butt problem; the rear of the van lower than the front. Add to it that all the storage inside the van is in the far rear and the problem only gets worse when I am...

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My travels during 2014

I left Colorado in late January, heading south to warmer weather (see below). I spent December 1st – 11th on the Big Island of Hawaii My adventures (in order): Belen, NM Moose Lodge Super Bowl with the T-or-C Moose Gila Ntnl Forest – Dragonfly Petroglyph Site Gila Ntnl Forest –...

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Cost of living in a van 2013

I have tracked my van-dwelling expenses for one full year now, mostly as an experiment to see where the money really goes in my style of van-dwelling. While other van-dwellers tend to stay put for long periods of time. I usually put down a lot of miles of traveling and...

Random find – ghost-buster car 0

Random find – ghost-buster car

Since I was in the area I checked in on the vehicle we have in storage, just to see if it took any flood damage from back in September. On the way out we stumbled on this cool character…  

Too old for paintball 0

Too old for paintball

In my youth I played my fair share of paintball, but it has been a decade since my last times played, and even then I paid the price for days after each game. This weekend, I did not want to pass up the opportunity to play with my own son...

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Moose tackles Rabbit Mountain

Moose and I went on our first Colorado hike together, at Rabbit Mountain right down the street. It is a small trail with no major scenery, but there is a nice area of prairie-dogs that I thought he might enjoy. Not many were out and about, but Moose could tell...

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Frosty mornings

It’s been cold the past few days. Colorado cold – down in the teens with a constant threat of flakes. The naked trees hold a fine layer of frost each morning which quickly burns away as the sun climbs higher into the sky. The cold does not stop you from...

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Normality returns

It took a few days but the food poisoning seems to have run it’s course leaving me with some time to re-acquaint myself with my Colorado, this time as a dog-owner. Luckily we are staying only a block away from a dog park and the city park across from Timmy’s...

Poisoned 0

Poisoned

After spending Friday night with some work friends, I took off early to see if I can make the drive back to Colorado before the end of Sunday. I normally do not like to power-drive like that but the weather was so cold through NV, UT, and WY that I...

Family Tour 2013 – Tobias 0

Family Tour 2013 – Tobias

Alas, my final sibling-visit before I get to leave California; Tobias, the always well groomed brother. Tobias has been held up in Auburn at a hotel for the past few weeks (work related) ruining by good plans to get us 3 brothers out for a ‘boy’s night’. Instead, I had...