Dream Rambling Gypsy Wagon

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I have a dream.

I want to get a traveling camper and I want to make it so cool and ecclectic that it will no doubt be original and ours.

I don’t just want a cookie cutter camper like everyone else.

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I want to get an old truck or van and then add to it and make it so fun and custom inside.

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You only have to look at my banjo to know that I would love to decorate a camping truck…. or just a camper… how delightful!

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It’s all the fault of those super neat, nice Tin Can Tourist folks. I want to be one of them! I want to travel around in a vintage homemade tin can of my own.

I have the perfect job for it…. I can telecommute from where ever I am. Just need a free wifi hot spot to do my actually final uploading/work and all, and I could work just about anywhere.

It wouldn’t need a whole lot… a bed, a working table/desk, maybe a comfy chair for relaxing… and a very small kitchenette. Really just a space for maybe a little microwave and a few little appliance that I can plug in. A little food storage. A little clothes and gear storage. Maybe a small porta-potty for those “I don’t want to try and get to the campground facilities in the middle of the night situations”.

I don’t want it to go in the wilds of nowhere… I want it to go to campgrounds and bluegrass festivals and like the KOA with the kids or such. Maybe park in a random Walmart here and there while touring about and enjoying life.

Yeah…. some day. I am hoping that maybe next summer… if we save… we might be able to find an old starter van camper to experiment on. Yeah….

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I’ve seen old campers as cheap at $2,000. Sometimes even $1500! Of course, might need some engine work and all that. We might start with a little trailer that the van can haul. Never know. The right little tin can will come along for us. We don’t want anything super big or complex… just enough to let us have a nice spot to sleep off the ground, and store a little gear, and relax in when it’s raining, that kind of thing. A rack to hold our lawnchairs and bikes. Sounds like a hoot! Can’t wait to see what comes our way.

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About Mobymom

the banjo player for Deepwater Bluegrass, and the editor of BuckeyeBluegrass.com as well as the main graphic designer of the Westvon Publishing empire. She is a renaissance woman of many talents and has two lovely daughters and a rehab mobile home homestead to raise.

Comments

Dream Rambling Gypsy Wagon — 4 Comments

  1. Oh! how wonderful!
    Go for it!
    I can hardly wait to see what you come up with. Whatever it turns out to be will be uniquely yours.

  2. am LOVING your site. people call me crazy for my ideas all the time. Its so nice to know I am not alone:-)
    many blessings to you and your creative heart.

  3. How exciting and wonderfull..full.I am inspired too.Those trucks are devine.all the best

  4. Hi Mobymom. I too am looking for that perfect “tin can”. I am an over-the-road trucker and looking to retire in 15 years. I see old buses and trucks in my travels but, like you, I am waiting for “Love at first site”. Keep the faith. Kerry