Awesomely weird adventures in raising geeks, travel, kids, mayhem.
We left Chimney Rock campground early in the morning, expecting a warm day of many sites on our way to Mammoth Cave. Cruising down the road we saw signs leading to Abraham Lincoln’s childhood home. This unexpected detour was both
Sometimes starting is the hardest part. After almost a year of planning, the purchase, renovation, and general craziness involved with getting our Vanagon running right (and reliably) we were ready to head out toward adventure. Our jobs had graciously (or
Nothing says fun like a 6 hour drive to the beach in 90+ degree weather with no A.C.! In June we took our yearly vacation to Chincoteague to enjoy the beach and test out our very recently completed Vanagon with
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
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
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