A Much Needed Rest Day.

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A Much Needed Rest Day


Vandalina under the stars



Greetings VanLifeGal followers! 

I'm looking at my last post and seeing that it was 70 degrees when I last posted. I am salivating for this temperature, as it is 8 am and already 88 degrees. We are expecting a high of 104 today. 

Most days I work my remote job in the evenings, roughly 4-9pm. But one day a week I work all day, in exchange for me taking Friday off each week. So today day I decided to drive about 30 minutes out from the main city I am building the van in so that I could be in a really remote and gorgeous camp spot for my work day. It is also a few degrees cooler here than in the city (or I like to think it is!)

I started today with a walk through the mountains, before the high temperatures really hit. After my wake up walk, I made breakfast. My take on the McGriddle, using a pancake mix by Simple Mills. It is the BEST pancake mix (gluten and naughty ingredient free). It's so wonderful to cook on my new stove with a spectacular view, and no sounds other than my max air fan spinning. 


I try to use these days off from van work to do a little planning and sketching of what needs to be built next. To summarize what's on my mind, I have to build the sink cabinet, and a slide out drawer that will fit next to it to house my tall kitchen bottles of oil, cooking vinegars, things like that. Once the cabinet is finished, I'll have to hook up the sink drain and connect that to my existing water lines. One hole through my floor for the sink water to flow to my under mount grey tank. I have to add doors to my fridge cabinet, and covering the exposed metal on the van ceiling. That will be difficult as the curve of the ceiling and the van ribs make it hard to fit any type of wood there. 

Thinking and planning is very difficult when it is hot. One blessing is that it is very breezy, so with all of the van doors open there is great circulation.  

Charles is a little fussy in the heat, I have ice packs that he lays on to keep him cool. I also have the AC unit, but can't run that 24/7. I can probably get a good 5-6 hours per day out of it and still have enough battery power to be on the safe side. 


I am moving on over to substack. If you love this content, please find me there: https://substack.com/@vanlifegal



As always, leave me a comment, or suggestion for a next post, I am truly glad you are here! ðŸ’–

Much love, 
VanLifeGal 


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