Hi you guys, I'll wave across the water the very next time I'm down that way. I've nearly always gone solo wherever I camp as Mrs Ozziedog usually finds that she is needed by her coven when it's time to go camping. Mrs Ozziedog has had two one nighters in the camper in about ten or more years. Let's just say she is not a fan until I get room service organised and a shower and a loo and possibly a restaurant, plugging her hair dryer into the ciggy lighter just ain't gonna happen either. Now I've kinda got used to having all the space of a full width rock and roller to myself. So I started taking the grand kids first one then two and now with a new branch to the family came a third one. So eight twelve and fifteen and me. Camp is a large three metre by three metre gazebo on the side of my early. I can easily with next to no effort pack a four man tent which takes a double air bed and still has a bit of space and all three could go in there nicely in the tent and under the gazebo. That lasted for about twenty minutes before there's a knock on my slider from the middle one, so that night there was me and the middle one and the little one all in my bed and one was sick from way too many toasted marshmallows, so that wasn't happening again.
I made a ply bed that fits across the two front seats and is about as wide as up to the gear stick, just a sheet of quarter ply wich rests on the seats on one side and two unscrewable legs on the other side, add a self inflating mattress a pillow and a sleeping bag and that was sorted, he had his own little bolt hole to crawl into and originally we had a nice St George flag as his curtain and he thought that was heaven. The next bed was another fit together type thing across the top of the front seats so it had a square ally bar right across the dash and a suspended pole just above the bulkheads and we had one or two board bunks again in the cab with their little heads under the windscreen and their feet were unsupported but on the boards their feet overhanging into the cargo bay. Again self inflating mattress and pillow and sleeping bag, we only used one and we put a cargo net on the side so the little dude couldn't fall out and land on his brother. Plus we fitted the most hugest Devon bunk I've ever seen, I reckon you could sleep twenty in this one. It's narrow at one end and that end is half the width of the opening, the other end is wider and almost three quarters of the width of the opening into the pop top, now that's where the fifteen year old ended up with pillow and sleeping bag. And me on the rock and roller. The only real problem was not being able to do or get to anything in the van until everybody got up which was sorta lunchtime ish, fifteen year olds don't do mornings apparently. Now we got something new to do now, not sure how we is gonna work it but, I've bought (long story) an Amascador type thing for the back of the van. You open the tailgate and leave it open and this tent type thing goes over the tailgate and forms a small room with the tailgate as the roof. You've got to make your own base for it,like a suspended bit at the back so instead of rock and roll, I'll have a double bed behind the rear bench seat. Let's see how that goes. We is having a test fitting on the weekend with the little guys.
Ozziedog,,, ,,,, wish me luck
