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One Transit, 8 weeks, $6,247 in receipts photographed and categorized. The real breakdown nobody else shows you — including the $340 mistake we made with the spray foam.
Month 3 of our Transit build. We finished the insulation, realized we measured the bed wrong, and saved $800 by making our own cabinetry.
Read More →After 2 years and 700+ charge cycles, here's the real performance data on the most popular vanlife battery. Spoiler: it's still at 97% capacity.
Read More →We spent January in Minnesota in a van. Temperatures hit -18°F. Here's what worked, what failed, and what we wish we'd done before winter hit.
Read More →Naval jelly, angle grinders, POR-15, and a lot of regret about buying a bus from Michigan. The complete floor restoration process from hell and back.
Read More →We've spent 18 months finding free or nearly-free spots across 34 states. Here's our actual workflow — apps, websites, and the tricks nobody else posts.
Read More →2,000 miles down the Baja Peninsula. Three breakdowns, one near-perfect sunset, a mechanical near-disaster, and why we'd do it again immediately.
Read More →We've owned both for 12+ months each. Honest comparison on airflow, noise, rain sensing, and which one we'd put in our next build without thinking twice.
Read More →Undersized wire. No fuses. PWM instead of MPPT. We've seen every electrical mistake in the book — here's the full list so you don't make them.
Read More →First week of our skoolie build. Seat removal, floor inspection horror, and the moment we realized we bought a bus with more rust than we expected.
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