Cabinets – 1

I had built the cabinets for my previous Vanagon out of 3/4″ plywood – three sheets of it. To say the least, they weighed a ton! I learned some valuable lessons about how to build cabinets and what I needed in this next version. I wanted these new cabinets to weigh far less than the last ones, this was a high priority.  When I go backpacking I try to keep my load as light as […]

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A Footprint Is

A footprint, as I often think of it, is our environmental one – how much resources we require and how many earths it would require if everyone lived this way. It is also, the space we take up, like the footprint of a house. Both are at play in this case. The latter is quite tiny – approximately 60ft2 total with probably about 40ft2 of living space. That is a  less than 3% of the […]

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The Beginning

As with all things, there must be a beginning. For me, the first step is the structure of this site and getting things up and running. I have already been working on the Vanagon, and will get to that build in the next post. But here, now, I want to quickly tell you a little about me, this site, and what the end goal is here. At the end of 2011 I purchased my first […]

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