Published on 12, July, 2020
I'm in a dreamy mood, idk what that means but I know that I would like to read what you have in your bucket list? Dreams? Doesn't have to be achievable.
I want to see every place in the world, taste each food, hear every language.
I want to live for a while in a jungle with tribal community, like real tribe that doesn't eat human meat. They could give me a tattoo in their very old tools and teach me something about nature.
I want to live near the coast, have a garden and few animals.
I want to visit Mars.
I want to write a book that influences people and make positive change in the world.
Can't remember the rest of my dreams at the moment, please tell me yours
I have just realised that the discussion exists before. Sorry for the repetition. I'll just go there and read the bucket lists
What a lovely post. I love the sound of your bucket list. I’ve had a bad day and it’s nice to think of these wonderful things. I’ve always dreamed of travelling and having an adventure in really wild places. I always wanted to visit the Himalayas and Tibet, and go and meet the Dalai Lama in India. I’d like to have a small campervan and travel all about for months and months without having to return home at all, just to be really free to go anywhere when I want. live also always dreamed of having a cosy cottage in Cornwall with an open fire and a view of the sea.
I have the campervan there too!. I was checking them earlier today
I know someone who loves their Mazda Bongo campervan. It seems you can get one for between £3-5K.
Small car fits in the back with a bit of ingenuity, which is why I look at race transporters. When teh car is out you have a large space in which to set your table or what have you.
Quite the opposite actually, I like using my van not looking at it (or particularly) maintaining it.
It's moved so far, (in no particular order) a generator, a concrete garage, some engines and hydrauilic power packs, a compressor, a 1200 litre tank on a trailer (trailer wasn't towable so we put it on the back with the crane and a bit of muscle augmentation as it was on the limit... An anvil (twice) and a lot of rubbish, and raw material for my fuel briquettes making excercise..
There is a special sort of person who can live in a very small space like the back of a van, but really, you need to be able to MOVE about a bit sometimes. Then there is the cost. Insurance and FIXED running costs are a big part of the deal with a vehicle, and high fuel consumption is often cited as a big no-no, but the insurance cost for a horsebox is about 250 quid a year, and I got a similar cost estimate for private use on a 7.5 tonne box body. You can actually LIVE in such a thing rather than exist.
But I get your drift. There are many ways to think, and mine is no better than any one else's.
But I've dipped into narrowboat life, done a fair bit of improv sleeping/brief periods of living outside of regular housing, and I want a comfy large sleeping area, and a decent washing facility and a cooking area and a sitting down reading /entertaining (gasp!) area, and I want it to be cleanable, and that requires "area"..
That's why an RV is the size it is...
With a horse box or ex race truck owned by half decent people you get most of an RV worth of facilities for the cost of a used car, with cheap insurance, and large car running costs, if you don't go bonkers.
Well, I think it's more convenient to buy two separate things. A car for everyday that can pull a small place for sleeping and eating that can be attached to it when needed. It doesn't make much sense to me to buy a huge vehicle that isn't practical at all in the city and park it to use it only in one season.
I'm sure you are right in all you say, but I think it is horses for courses!
If you had expressed a desire for a "camper van", then I would most certainly have recommended (for you) a 3.5t Merc that you could chop/extend/segment...because I strongly suspect you would probably have more fun getting it ready to use / testing for use than ever using it?!
I suspect Ree would be more likely to want to buy a small flexible vehicle that you can drive, sleep in and cook in - and would then use for that purpose.
This has all reminded me of a beautiful soul whom I once met at a motorway services in the parking lot. [Dodgy opening to any anecdote!] They had a plain white Luton van....but when the back door was raised, it looked like the facade of a Swiss mountain cabin. It was very lovely and clever inside.
Number, for 3-5K you can get a Horsebox, prisoner transport or race transporter, all of which offer palatial living accomodation, and are essentially much more fixable & durable over the long term.
One of my (very few, considering) "great regrets" is that when offered a serviceable mercedes atego 7.5tonne with TWO demountable boxes, one fitted as a stores and one as workshop (for £2K) I had NOWHERE to put it.
However I did eventually land me a more modest 3.5 tonne truck with a 500Kg craney thing and a dropside flatbed, which when I can solve the "where do I put them when not in use" problem, would allow me to load a tiny house or small workshop on the back a-la-thunderbird 2, IF I can solve the insurance issues that currently are dogging my project.
I seem to have lucked into a source of 8x4 panels made of a composite and durable plastic, sometimes with embedded aluminium "faraday cage" suitable foil fitted to wooden frames, which seem ideal for building lightweight durable structures which will fit in the space on the back of my truck, quickly and easily.
I've just had a quick measure I have 2x2.3 metres to make my boxes (too small for a tiny home methinks, BUT my mate has a relative who built a house in a skip, so I'll be talking to him later..)