First weekend in the truck

Truck from the front

Truck from the back

Interior, looking forward

Interior, looking backward

I decided to get the truck on Tuesday (7/3/07) and by Friday I had researched running it on solar. Make it as off-grid as possible. I kind of thought it was a completely ridiculous idea, but the more people I told, the more excited they got and that helped me to take on the project. Seamus and I had thought about converting it last year to use as a snowboarding vehicle so we already had a rough idea of how we wanted the interior to look.

That weekend I spent an afternoon in it-- measuring, photographing and generally sitting in it to get the feel. It's bigger than I remembered. The interior measures about 15' long, 7' wide and 6'9" high. Doable. The driver's area is nasty. Mildewed steering wheel, rotted seat, lots of glued-up garbage. I checked out the camper and it's pretty trashed as well. Yay.