by Bob | Jul 23, 2015 | Beating the Heat, Heating-Insulation
I’m writing this in July and much of the country is sweltering under oppressive heat, so it seems like an appropriate time to write about staying cool in a van. Before we go any further let me say staying cool is the most difficult aspect of living in a van and...
by Bob | Feb 19, 2014 | A, Heating-Insulation, Planning for the Future, Survival
We are continuing with our look at Practical Survival for Vandwellers and today we are going to continue looking at staying comfortable in the heat and cold. In the last post we reviewed ways of doing that by the way we dress and sleep, this time we’re going to look...
by Bob | Feb 16, 2014 | A, Clothes, Heating-Insulation, Survival, Uncategorized, Vandwelling Philosophy
Among survivalists there is something known as the Rule of Threes that says you can survive… 3 minutes without air 3 hours in extreme weather without shelter 3 days without water 3 weeks without food Since these are the most fundamental essentials of...