I have been camping in my 1990 Chevrolet Silverado Blazer 2-door for the last 20 years. When I removed the back seat there was just enough room for a 3/4 sized (Hollywood, as some people called them) mattress to fit between the wheel wells and from the back of the console to the tailgate. After all those years with my wife and I getting older, she decided we needed a little more room so she found me a 2001 Chevrolet Express van with low mileage on the internet. After checking it out and taking it for a test drive we bought it on the spot. It was a nice passenger conversion LT model with all the bells and whistles available in 2001. I will chronicle the changes I made to transform it into my Class B- motorhome in the next few postings. I call it my Class B- (B minus) motorhome because it is just a regular van without the raised roof.Camping at Custer State Park, SD in February, 2015.Camping and visiting Scott's Bluff National Monument, NE in October, 2014.

As I get older, I need more reminders. To help me remember everything as I break camp, I use an old travel luggage tag to stick on my gearshift lever. It reminds me of everything i need to do before I break camp, except make sure my wife is with me!

I liked the old Blazer better too, but as we got older it got harder to crawl over the front seats to get into the bed in the back. So we finally decided to go with the van for more room. With the seat swivel on the passenger side, that gave us even more room on the inside of the van. That old Blazer took us to the east coast and Acadia National Park near Bar Harbor, Maine to Mt. St. Helens and the Redwood Forest in Oregon and California on the west coast. The only trouble we had with it was a blown alternator about an hour outside of Alamagordo, New Mexico when we were visiting the Very Large Array telescopes and White Sand Dunes National Park.

Looks great for an 2001 but then, your Blazer looks fantastic too! I guess I lived in a very salty state.

I wonder why you don't buy for the same price a nice old comfortable rv

We don't know what the OP paid. A class C or B of the same price probably would be a fair bit older than the van, I'd guess.Those full size vans are plenty useful. My dad rigged his Chevy van for sleeping, back in the '80s.

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