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[Hodakaguy]

Received my Mule Bags for the van.   We will be using these soft overhead luggage bags to hold our cloths etc and help keep the floor free from clutter.  I love that the bags are soft for when you bump your head on them and that they are easily removable if I need to take them out to haul something etc.  


Ready to install.




Out of the box, bag is folded up and the internal stiffeners are folded flat.




Supplied Mounting Hardware




Installing the mounting studs on the ceiling L-track.  The rubber washer helps hold the assembly in place during install.




Rear bag in place.




Installing the forward bags hardware.




And both bags installed.  I spaced the bags so there is a slight gap between them so I can still place items into the elastic netting on the ends of the bags.  The fit of the bags are spot on!  The camera pics up more IR than the naked eye and makes the bags look purple, they are nice and black in person.








The opening flaps have built in magnets to hold them open when needed, nice touch.














Hodakaguy

 

[Happyjax]

Those are nifty bags!

[craig333]

Sure are. Now how can I get those in my camper!

[Mighty Dodge Ram]

Great solution! I’ll be searching those out. 

[Hodakaguy]

Just got back from a quick 600 Mile road trip, first trip of the year with the van.   Not quite finished with the interior yet but It's time to start camping and worry about finishing the van at a later date :-)

Here's a few photo's from our adventures through Central OR.


Worlds largest map of the Oregon Trail, wrapped around the other side of the building as well.



The town of Baker OR has a really cool museum, here we stopped and are waiting for the doors to open.




One of my favorite things in the museum was this cool old rifle, man If only this rifle could talk!






Checking out some cool old equipment in Sumpter OR.  This walking drag line was awesome.




I would so love to restore this tracked Fordson, look at that awesome winch!






Next up we checked out the old Sumpter Dredge.  This dredge removed 128,570 oz of gold while chewing up the Sumpter valley, the tailings can be seen throughout the valley.  I brought along the drone on this trip and got a couple cool overhead shots.




You can really see the size of the dredge with the wife and kiddo on the deck.






The tailing conveyor on the stern of the dredge and the ends of the sluice boxes.






Buckets baby!




One of the winch systems on board, this winch was used for positioning the dredge in the pond





Here's the winch that controlled the bucket line, you can also see two of the three pumps onboard that had a total of 3000 gpm capacity.




Next we rolled through the abandoned town of Whitney, I love checking out old abandoned buildings.








Lots of cool canyons along the route.





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[Hodakaguy]

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Camp for the night and enjoying the breeze and view out the rear door.




Next morning we drove up to Fossil OR to dig for fossils.  There is a public dig area located right behind the high school.












Lot's of really cool leaf and fern fossils, this area looked a lot different back then.




After that we shut down early for the day so we could just relax and the kiddo could spend the day swimming.










The roof rack makes a great place to kick back in the camp chair and relax




Making coffee for the ride home.....another trip in the books.




Hodakaguy

 

 

[windy]

Which roof rack is that? Or did you build it?

[Hodakaguy]

Which roof rack is that? Or did you build it?

The rack is from Stoked Adventure Outfitters in BC. Full details a few pages back in this thread.

Hodakaguy

[Happyjax]

Very cool! Thanks for all the pics

[Hodakaguy]

More adventures. If your just here for the build thread and not into trip reports you can skip this post, more build posts coming soon

We just finished a 4 day 1000 mile road trip with the van and my father joined the trip with his Tacoma/Vagabond camper. Such a cool road trip, soooo much scenery and history to explore out there.

Warning...Picture Heavy Post.


Heading out of town we were treated to an awesome sunrise.



First up was the historic mining town of Wallace ID. This is town is full of history and cool things to explore. There is also a bicycle trail on a old railroad bed that is all down hill and travels through tunnels and over trestles...we will have to come back for those!




Dad checking out the signs




Wallace is home to the Center Of The Universe!




I found it strange that the Center of the Universe is located in the middle of a 4 way intersection where people will want to stand on it to take photos lol. All locations in town are referenced from the Cnter of the Universe .








This pawn/antique shop in Wallace is a very cool shop, a must stop when your there!




Dad checking out the Mermaid






My wife checking out the lovely room of death lol.






More fun stores








Wallace is famous for it's houses of prostitution, there were MANY of them in this small town. The last operating brothel closed in 1991. The Oasis cat house closed in 1988 and was boarded up tight with everything inside...they just turned off the lights and left, eventually it was purchased and the time capsule was opened and its now a perfectly preserved museum. Really good tour.








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