Thought I just had to share this

[Skybird]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-DgMYB6L0c


Lovely vehicle, all that plenty of woods. I would not go as far as wantign to live in it all year, but for trips and even longer travels, wonderful! Only handicap: book lovers are at a massive disadvantage: no space to store books in.


Very sympathetic woman, I am really impressed.

[Sailor Steve]

Nice, though I agree about the books. One of these might solve that problem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypcpFtagQYQ&feature=emb_rel_end

[Skybird]

^ Too big, I cannot pull them. Remember, I'm a cyclist, not a spaceship driver.

There are good ideas for bicycles, btw. Ebikes are recommended for this, the problem so remains to be: power for charging, or carrying several batteries in reserves, which is both very expensive, and heavy. Solar panels may be good if you stay stationary for long enough, but the weight issue remains (solar transfer battery: size and weight).

I like these two:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdkhwXVeKDE


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFKTUa1eAKg&list=TLPQMDMwNjIwMjBaqDCiHlyaLw&index=3

[Platapus]

The military ruined camping for me. For too many years "camping" was a GP Medium on a salt flat desert. :nope:



All the good ol' days. They sucked! :D

[Skybird]

But it was no job, but an adventure! :D

[Rockstar]

Oh I dont know about those bicycle campers. Appears to lack sufficient ventilation to exhaust your body heat and breath. In just a few hours it would be raining inside from all the condensation building up.

I've peddled the Great Allegheny Pass, personally I think the lighter the better. I used saddle bags on my bicycle and they had more than enough space to carry all my needs. I used a 3 season 2 person tent from Mountainsmith which I could set up and take down in a matter of minutes. It was lightweight, compact, reasonably priced and most importantly specifically designed to vent your body heat to keep things reasonably dry inside.

[Skybird]

I have seen two long interviews of couples using the second, Austrian trailer, the Turtle, for 2-3 week tours. They did not mention problems with air moisture. But you are right, it is a point one has to check out. However, mindign you, there is a n open "door" below the sleeping plkace, with access to storage under the bed. Leaving it open, might help a bit. Or the entrance. Everybody having experience with a tent knows that potenmtial problem with air mposture inside a tent, no matter the outside temperature low or high. I like the principle and simple design ideas in both bike trailers. The turtle weighs just below 30 kg. That is remarkable! Two beer crates on my own trailer already give a weight above 40 Kg (I tested it also with 3 and for crates, 60 and 80 kg...), so I know how it would feel with the Turtle - easy.

I have done two "drills" with a 3x3 tarp, wires, tent pegs and two sticks earlier this year, just for fun, to fresh up the old experience. With that, and a further good ultralightweight equipment (sleeping bag, insulating mat) one could get along, one only needs to know proper techniques with tarp setup designs. I know two versions for an "almost sealed" and a "completely sealed" tent done with a Tarp of that size. ground water prove and wind-prove. No trees for anchoring a base wire needed.

Was thinking about doing a long hike to the North this year, but things kept getting in the way, amongst them health and a weak back.

But its fun to practice and see one can do it.

Wild camping over night in Germany is practically banned everywhere, and finding an abandoned place where nobody would find you if you do it, in this corner of Germany is pratcically impossible.

Bivvy bags I could not get used to. Claustrophobic. Good one works like they should, but I really cannot relax inside. Set up wrong, or bad products, will see you drowning either by rain or by sweat. In der Not frisst der Teufel Fliegen (= any port is good in a storm), but I would always prefer other options, if available.


He made it himself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIgXQioojmA

[Rockstar]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIgXQioojmA


Now, those size and type of tailors I did see a lot of. Mostly when the whole family went bicycle camping and by those who enjoyed a little luxury during their travels. Usually carried pot pans, kitchen sink and like equipment in those as well as small children and maybe a few books. :03:





btw I think it was you Skybird that once brought up concerns over portable water filters. I have a First Need XLE water 'purifier'. It retains 0.4 micron particulates, bacteria, virus and specific toxic and carcinogenic chemicals. Kinda expensive, filters are 70.00 U.S. and because of what they filter dont last long. I usually change them out after 150 gallons. Good emergency purifier when crap hits the fan





https://generalecology.com/collections/portable/products/322200

[mapuc]

Only handicap: book lovers are at a massive disadvantage: no space to store books in.

Very sympathetic woman, I am really impressed.

In my youth I did a lot of camping, either with family or with friends and sometimes on my own.

Today I'm poor and have somehow lost this feeling of camping in the free nature.

Markus

[Skybird]

btw I think it was you Skybird that once brought up concerns over portable water filters.
That solsunds as if I said somethign again st the in egneral, for primnci8ple reaosns. That I certainloy have not said, I just think the toppicv needs some thought and is a bit complex -. one really needs to know what goes and what not for what kind of water source. There are people out there thinking that with a coffee filter full of charcoal they could turn just any of dirty water into pure, clean water. Such naivety is dangerous to the health, very.



My concern is that if electricity would blackout for lets say a week or so, it would take amyn mroe days to to bring the power back into the grid everywhere, and then water supply would be out for many more weeks in places after they managed ti get the powergrid back to work, because all pipes bringing water to the houses as well as much of the sewage system would be infected (or clogged) and would need to be cleaned out first (desinfected in case of sweet water pipes), also the bacteria in the purifying stations that are bred for cleaning he dirty water in the bassins would need to be cultivated again and set out into the bassins again because much of the previously existing ones would have died or gotten contaminated.


Outdoor filters for the backpack usually only work against biological threats, but need good care-taking and cleaning and drying. They do not filter chemical pollutions. Thats what many people miss. Heravy metals, waste from agriculture, chemical and heavy industry, gasoline, diesel... A river flowing through an town, city or alongside fields, must be counted as sewage. "Pocxket fiulters" I would only use in very natural, abandoned regions up in the mountains of Northern Europe, rivers near their spring that did not get close to urban, industrialised regions with no agriculture done along their riverbeds. You may find such water sources in big cioutnries with huge natural reserves, like the US, Scnadinavia, Russia, playes that are free of human presence. In Germany, I would not try to win drinking water from rivers or standing lakes, not a slong as I am not really very desperate. I mean even rain water is already contaminated with the stuff it has washed out of the sky. It is no distilled water anymore. That it only is high up in the sky before the cloud starts raining down.



What I mean: use filters if you think you must: but know what you are doing! ;) For me they are mostly for a scenario when public water supply via pipes may have been off for days and weeks maybe, and the water comes back: to bridge the first days or weeks until they have cleaned all the pipes.

[Jimbuna]

Some very innovative work on display here.

[Kapitan]

skybird have you ever seen this? now this is what i call a proper go anywhere campervan (more so the older one than the new one)


https://youtu.be/Djr82VleX0o

[Skybird]

skybird have you ever seen this? now this is what i call a proper go anywhere campervan (more so the older one than the new one)

https://youtu.be/Djr82VleX0o
The video cannot be played in Germany, I only see the title image, but Unimogs rule. A truly universal base. They bring you to where many others fail, they keep rolling where quite some others quit.

I like this one. Due to its weight restrictions (below 7.5 tons, much is aluminium), it can be driven without a truck license, ordinary car license is sufficient. Its dimension is small and it has what it needs, includign solar panels, lithium phosphate batteries and electric stove, not gas, even the wooden parts are bamboo (its lighter than wood). The only thing I do not like is the price. 350 thousand is quite a house number, though I understand whate the money got into. They say it drives comfortably and very agile. Well, all Unimogs are said to be "agile" for their class.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qbu9xZ_A-AA


For travelling, of course, not for living in it constantly. The Unimog base of course os Mercedes, but the cabin is from company Hellgeth. Its all ultra lightweight (due to the driving license, its a big plus I think).

[Jimbuna]

^ Wouldn't mind one of them myself.