Open and airy class B's

Geocritter wrote:
I think your smart looking at class B’s. This past May and June I took a +12,000 mile road trip up through Alaska and Canada using my toad (a 2005 Dodge Caravan with a sleeping/storage platform in the back). My Class A’s 7mpg made doing the long trip in it cost prohibitive. During the trip I met a woman from Homer Alaska doing a similar road trip in a late 1980’s vintage Class B. What a neat set-up she had! What impressed me most was that nearly everything in it could be multi-tasked. It had a sofa bed so that the bedroom became a living room during the day and with a fold down table it could quickly become a dinette. It had a shower pan in the hallway floor between the front and rear. Just lift the cover off the pan pull out some plastic curtains and you had a shower. It had a head, an elec/gas refrigerator, and a small 2-burner range top. The front driver and passenger seats rotated and became easy chairs.

For any RV multi-tasking is paramount, but especially in a small Class B.

Steve

Hey Steve.... thanks for your reply. I have in mind a van about 20 ft long. I am looking seriously at a Ford transit van with extended body. That would give me about 13 ft of living space inside.

I wish a small van would be enough space for me but.... for full time living.... but I want more space. I want to take that trip you did up thru Canada to Alaska at some point as well...I was a geology student back in college. lol so LOTS of great rocks up there to look at.

but.... I gotta get the van first.

Interesting about that woman you met with the B. I like the shower trick.... I read about that kind of thing before.... and that is the sort of thing I would be thinking about if I did build a van from scratch.

I need to go over to the Class B section to ask some questions. I want to PM you and ask you more about your Alaska trip.

thanks for your post.

Ruby