Please don’t tell Keith but we have just been out and bought a new campervan. Well he’s new to us but Justin is a 2005 Ford Transit. To find out more about Justin watch our …
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Blueberry picking
Today we don our silly hats, to spend the morning blueberry picking at Ohaupo. To watch our antics please watch our video hehttps://youtu.be/7kQ8YJljoTwre
Continue readingAdditions to our van
House battery and fridge. To make life easier on the road Jo wanted to add a fridge to our van, but how do we power it when not driving. The simple answer is to add …
Continue readingRemoving the middle seats
Originally we were going to keep the middle row of seats in the van. This would enable us to carry passengers and they would also lay flat to form our bed. However to enable us …
Continue readingFitting out and Self Containment
In this the second part of our Nissan Elgrand conversion we fit out the interior and take Keith to get his self containment sticker.
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In New Zealand there are many places you can freedom camp, ie camp for free (not in a camping ground). To do this you must however be self contained. Watch our video to see what …
Continue readingRemoving the rear seats
Today the first task of converting our Nissan Elgrand E51, Highway Star into a camper van is to remove the rear seats. We are undecided at the moment whether to make this a permanent conversion …
Continue readingHow we converted Keith
Keith is our Nissan Elgrand and we converted him to a self contained campervan for under 600NZ$. Here is the video on how we did it.
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This is Keith, our Nissan Elgrand We have owned him for just over a year now and will be converting him to a self-contained camper van. He will be our home in between house sits …
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