Build Outs

This is how we came up with the perfect truck camper build-out: Over the past year, we committed ourselves to meticulous refinements, drawing inspiration from diverse sources and gleaning insights into our preferences. Our journey involved thorough planning, consultations, and the use of 3D modeling with SketchUp, which enabled us to meticulously shape our vision.

this is about how to make a great thing even BETTER so we’ve picked 7 seven of our favorite modifications under $35 to share with you here!

Let’s talk about solar power, and how we keep all our toys and tools charged up while working and traveling in our 2003 Toyota Tundra, Dolores.

With our windows in and the additional light that they now provided it was time to start moving on to the build out portion of the box. The plan was to start with the bed. We would use that as a work space later as we moved into building out bench seats that would double as water storage.

When the box showed up it was pretty dusty and dirty. It seemed like it might have sat for a very long time in Yermo, California with the door open and seemed like a small family of birds may have also taken up residence in there for a while.

We found an S-280 shelter up for auction on govplanet.com in Yermo, California. We made the decision that it was the right box for us based on its size, location, condition, and potential price. Thankfully we were able to win the auction at a very reasonable price, and started making moves to get it shipped to us.

Less than a year into dating we decided that we were going to buy a van together, turn it into a sweet little camper, and move into it together to save money on rent and spend more time playing outside.

One of the very first projects that we tackled on Peanut was resealing the hatch on the roof of the cab which in its former military life was meant to have either a large caliber gun or grenade launcher mounted in (wtf?!).