You know you’re in Kentucky when you’re offered moonshine within 10 minutes of arriving at a campsite. After a crazy day of torrential downpours eventually ending in a shady hotel room with a mud covered van we were ready for

Here’s the list of all that was done to our Westly. “New” Subaru 2.2 engine (actually the 3rd engine I tried to put in… long story) Installed with the smallcar.com kit – which I highly recommend I also installed the

So, we’re doing this little trip. (aka the Sorting Hat Voyage) In this little van. With these little people.   So here’s the list of places we plan to hit: New River Gorge Mammoth Cave Metropolis, IL St. Louis Mark

I decided to install a gray water tank on our Vanagon. These were fairly common on European Vanagons, but not an option in the US. The reason I chose to do this was that many of the campgrounds on the

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Westly has come a long way since that first post we made about him. We’ve bought various engines (2), parts, and headaches (those were ‘free’) and now we’re down to ye’ old install the parts in the Vanagon time. First,

All good adventures need a noble steed. Don Quixote had his Rocinante, the Lone Ranger had Silver, Darwin had his Beagle and we have a Vanagon Westfalia. These vehicles have long fascinated me, not so much for their supposed hippie