Galgibaga Beach, Goa - Must Visit

Galgibaga Beach/ Galgibagh Beach, possibly the cleanest beach in Goa is located in the quiet taluka of Quepem in Canacona region of South Goa and 7 kms from Palolem Beach. 

Swimming is allowed and there are life savers who patrol the beach. 

There are only a couple nice eating shacks which offer lip smacking food. 
It's a Must Visit beach in Goa. 
Galgibaga Beach is fairly simple to find on Google maps. There's no parking next to the beach. One has to walk a bit to reach the beach. 
The beach is one of the three places in Goa that form the nesting grounds of the Olive Ridley turtles, a protected species. The northern portion of this beach is protected it being the turtles nesting ground and that gives the beach its nickname, Turtle Beach. 
Roadies must visit Raj Baga beach on the way back from Galgibaga Beach.
Raj Baga beach is just besides Hotel Lalit and has literally no tourists there. It’s almost like you have the whole beach to yourself.
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Vanlife stories of Mahesh Karadia, resident of Navsari, Gujarat

Mahesh Karadia,  who has settled in Navsari, Gujarat started camping and caravaning while still abroad in 1979. His first camper was a Commer 4 berth with an elevating roof in early 80's. Then he acquired a 4 berth VW camper in late 80's. Along with his wife he travelled extensively in Europe and have amazing memories. Now in 2021, he has a Swift Kontiki 6 berth. In 2016 his brother drove this from London to Mumbai. He joined them in Vizag and drove South to Kerala, Goa, Kanyakumari and then to Mumbai and to Navsari, Gujarat. Couple of years back they travelled to Lourdes in France and Spain. 

He is almost 68 years old now. There is nothing that can beat this experience of his. 
He says, 'if you love, go for it'.  
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Pile up in Fort Worth, Texas in February 2021

Happened in Fort Worth on I-35 southbound toll road, Texas in February 2021. 

It was a 100 car pile up with 6+ fatalities. 
It was reported by people frequenting the highway that at a higher point of the highway (you don't see in the video), is a crest where the cars drive down and can't see the vehicles piled up below. Basically the cars went over the crest, and when they saw what was happening, couldn't stop because of extremely slippery black ice on the road. 
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Flooring Challenge - Seeking Wisdom for Van Conversion

Flooring Challenge - Seeking Wisdom

We will be putting in subflooring and insulating the floors w Havelock Wool over these next 2 weeks. My partner is 5’10” and we have a FT medium wb and medium roof, so we want to make the floor as thin as possible, and one that will last.

Questions: 

What’s the thinnest plywood you would go with for a subfloor? Any special kind of plywood? (our top floor would likely be vinyl)

What size and kind of wood would you use for the ferrel strips between the floor groves? (this wood would be glued to the kilmat and the metal floor in the spaces between the kimat)

Are ⅜ ferrell strips too thin for screwing subfloor into? We are considering gluing the plywood to the ferrell strips vs screwing. Good idea or not and why?

Wool insulation in the floor goes where in this layering process and how?

What kind of glue would you recommend? One glue to glue the ferrell strips to the metal floor/Kilmat, and one glue to glue the plywood to the ferrell strips. 

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Answers 1: 

What’s the thinnest plywood you would go with for a subfloor?

9-12mm

Any special kind of plywood? (our top floor would likely be vinyl.)

Depends on moisture usage, if you are planning on having toilet, shower or water usage then marine ply

What size and kind of wood would you use for the ferrel strips between the floor groves? (this wood would be glued to the kilmat and the metal floor in the spaces between the kimat) 

2x1 battons are overkill, 1x1 with pilot holes so doesn't split.

Are ⅜ ferrell strips too thin for screwing subfloor into? UK conversion rates of measurements yes it is.

Glueing is cheaper but less secure over time vs screwing you know it's in place and is secure.

Wool insulation in the floor goes where in this layering process and how? Between the battons and under the ply, do section by section otherwise loads of mess to try and see where to apply ply boards with battoning. 

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Answers 2: 

25mm batons, 25mm kingspan, 12mm ply (wpb) and whatever flooring material you wish. 

Some people lay silver foil over the batons, too. 

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Sound deadening insulation foam from Vandalised.co.uk

It's 7mm sound deadening insulation foam. Started feeling warmer. 

It's a self adhesive stuff. 

Kayla Tierny did not use spray glue. 
She used Vandalised.co.uk but bought through ebay.
To cover the whole thing like this she bought 15 sq.m in total for her swb vivaro but will have bits left over.
She bought 10 and then needed more. 

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Agafay Desert, Marrakech

Agafay Desert, Marrakech 🇲🇦
Who has driven on this road?

Amazing ducks in Mekong Delta

Amazing duck season in Đồng Tháp, Mekong Delta.
Pic credit: Tran Chi Tam group Mientayoi.

Andrea Nicole King bought her 1988 Chevy G-20 conversion van with only 9k original miles in mid June 2020

In mid June 2020, Andrea Nicole King went down to Columbus to pick up Lola her dream machine! She’s an ‘88 Chevy G-20 conversion van with only 9k original miles! She was well maintained and kept inside for most of her life. Soon enough Andrea will start making her way back to California to finish up her debut record and explore more of the west coast. Traveling is a passion Andrea. She is eagerly waiting to see where all Lola takes her. 

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Justin Parsons, 1 full year of vanlife from 2017-12-07 to 2018-12-08

Justin Parsons and his partner had been doing small trips in the van before, but  2018-12-08 marked one year since they have been travelling full time in the van! They left Alberta on December 7, 2017 and have been to many cool places since.
The little video marks one full year of vanlife, of road memories.

1 year, 3 countries, 65000 kms 🚐💨
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Route 66, the mother road

ROUTE 66, THE MOTHER ROAD!!! 🇺🇸

(Excerpts from the epic road journey of Pam, Andi, Leas from Switzerland which lasted for a total of 6 years. They are back to their hometown in Switzerland in early June 2020)

The world famous Route 66 was established on November 11, 1926 and originally ran from Chicago (Illinois) all the way over to Santa Monica in Los Angeles County (California), covering a total of 3940km (2448 miles)!

US 66 served as a primary route for those who migrated west, especially during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, and the road supported the economies of the communities through which it passed. People doing business along the route became prosperous due to the growing popularity of the highway, and those same people later fought to keep the highway alive in the face of the growing threat of being bypassed by the new Interstate Highway System.

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Recreational Van (RV) solar circuit set-up

Solar Panel Set-up For Recreational Vehicle: 

Here's one more in greater details .... 

And here's one more in even greater details .... 

What’s the purpose of a charge controller? 

A charge controller is an important component in a battery based solar system and are not used in straight grid tie systems. The primary role is to manage charging the battery bank, prevent it from overcharging and control the rate of the current and voltage at which it charges.

Simply put, it keeps the panels from overcharging the batteries, solar panels can put out 17 volts. 

Is there a way to figure out how many volts are coming off your panels? 

The charger controller has Volt meters or you can use a volt meter at the panels when they are in the sun.

The following is the solar setup by Justin Parsons of New Foundland, USA. His guidelines for learning all the basics can be read on www.genericvan.life: 

https://www.genericvan.life/2019/09/27/a-helpful-guide-to-understanding-solar-power-for-van-life-or-rv-living/ 

P.S: Please click on the photos of circuits for viewing high resolution images. 

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How to keep cool inside a van without the use of AC

Fans that cool computer are very small in size. Recycling e-waste is a good idea. They run on 12 Volts DC and have low Ampere ratings.

There's someone in Florida where temperatures mount to 95°F. He runs 6 such fans  in his small van, of which 2 fans to suck in air from outside. They run for weeks on car battery. 

Also make screens for the window. 

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Road trip to Namibia

Everywhere is nowhere. It doesnt matter if you go left or right, its all the middle of nowhere, such is the wonders of Damaraland and in particular Messum Crater in the Namib, a collapsed super volcano stretching 25km across, its so big that you cant fathom what your seeing unless you look at a aerial photo. It was named by British sea Cpt. William Messum in the 1850s when he came ashore in the Skeleton Coast of Namibia which was referred to at the time by the Portuguese in Angola as "The gates to hell" it was his hopes to go up a river bed he saw and hopefully find water and people should anyone get wrecked along these terrible shores where over 2000 ships have wrecked over the years and a horrid fate awaited any sailor who did not go down with the boat for you would bake by day in the furnace and by night freeze with the cold air from the Belanguila ocean current from Antarctica. As hunger and dehydration and heat stroke and sleep deprivation set in you would soon be followed by jackals and brown hyena watching you, waiting for you to become so weak that they'd eat you alive. It was with this in mind that Cpt William Messum went up the river and was amoung the very first europeans to happen accross the Damara people at Brandberg where the riverbed ended, on the way to his south he saw a range of mountains which he named after himself just as he did the riverbed, in later years it was discovered that those mountains he named from above happened to shape a enormous circle and hence was named a crater, it was many years later when Dr Heno Martin, premiere geologist of Namibia realized that it was no crater at all, but rather a collapsed super volcano. In later years when a discovery was made that mountain ranges here in Africa went on in South America did they realize that Africa and South America were together at a time and was split asunder, the rock from the blast of the messum volano has also been found in South America and hence it is speculated that Messum was responsible for ripping the super continent Gondwana apart. Yet when you drive through messum its a odd looking landscape that looks nothing like a crater, most wouldnt even know they were in it.
(Content courtesy: RoadTripToNamibia)
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