Air Mattress: Took both my backpacking air pads to make a bed in the back cargo area.Water: Took a 5 gallon water jug and filled it up before leaving home, so didn't need to worry about that.Used my backpacking stove to cook at night. Food: Took all my normal backpacking foods with me (non-refrigerated).My DIY SUV Road Trip and Sleeping Set Up: For all the full trip and hiking details, check out my Central Oregon trip report. Overall my plans worked out perfectly! And I identified a few new ideas and improvements for next time.and yes, definitely a next time! Check out my SUV set up in the pictures and notes below. My intent for this Central Oregon trip was to simply give it a try and see what worked, what didn't work, and how I could improve for future trips. By searching through such resources on social media and the internet I picked up a few tips and tricks for my first DIY car sleeping experience. Plenty of people convert their vehicles into full fledged car camping machines - just Google "car camping conversion" to see what I mean. But I had never actually slept in my vehicle overnight. Since that van rental experience I've been pondering if and how I could simply live out of my own SUV for short road trips (instead of a van for now).Īs many road trips as I take, I have already perfected most of the logistics to easily live out of my vehicle. And, yes, I too was enamored with the adventure vehicle trend. In that trip report I talked about the popularity of "van-life" these days. In November 2020 I rented a VW Westfalia van and headed out on a five day Oregon Coast Van-cation over the Thanksgiving holiday.
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