Hippie Van engine rebuild.. again
If you have been following on facebook or instagram, you will know that I drove back up to Canada at the beginning of May. I’m enjoying being back home, spending time with family and friends, and got to attend the 30th annual June Jitterbug30th annual June Jitterbug Volkswagen gathering in Niagara Falls, On. This week […]
Hippie Van Man End Of Summer Update: BACK TO BRAZIL!
As many of you know via updates on Facebook as well as my blog post a couple months back; at the start of June I decided to fly back to Toronto, Canada to spend time with my family as my father was going through some health issues. I left the Hippie Van at a friend’s […]
Hippie Van Man 1-Year-Pan-American-Road-Trip Anniversary: Looking Back Part 1
Wow! Has it been a full 365 days already? It seems like it was yesterday that my 1979 Volkswagen Transporter (aka The Hippie Van) was packed to the brim with the gear of four people heading to Burning Man in Nevada, USA from Toronto Canada. Within the first two hours, due to complaints of one […]
My 14-hour Gonzo Style Colombian Ecuadorian Hippie Van Rockslide Adventure
The day’s were counting down, I was quickly approaching the 180-day allowed stay for tourists per calendar year in Colombia. With this bureaucratic fire under my ass, I headed to the border, leaving from Pasto, Colombia where I had spent the night hosted by Colombian friends. I left Pasto around 12-noon on Sunday. It was […]
Crossing the U.S.A. / Mexico Border
Today the journey heads onward in to Mexico. I had a great time the past couple months, an expensive couple of months touring the USA, but finally we make our way South in to Mexico. Here is a break down of the border crossing today. We crossed the border pretty easily. No search really. They […]
What To Do When You Break Down in The Smallest Town in The United States?
So for those of you who have checked out my video from the road trip I did to Burning Man in 2011, you will have noticed that the hippie van broke down half way to Nevada. It was on a Saturday night, three days and 2,300km into our trip from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on our […]
Soft Launch of HippieVanMan.com
I am truly excited to announce the soft launch of hippievanman.com!! After lots of hard work and persistence, I managed to get the site up and running, with a few blogs and some content to get things going. The van was purchased back in April of 2011. However I only got the idea in the […]
Alex Currie a.k.a Runt’s Paint Job on The Van Finally Complete!
Despite our best efforts and community involvement, we were unable to complete the paint job on the van in time for Burning Man 2011 as we had originally hoped to do. We had a couple set backs due to other maintenance and an unexpected rain which caused the not-dry paint to run. Nonetheless the van […]
Community Involvement to Help Paint The Van @ Pedestrian Sundays in Kensington Market
Only weeks before we were scheduled to depart for Burning Man 2011, the vans paint job was still not complete. It is after all a rather large canvas and to this point only Alex Currie a.k.a Runt (you can read more about him on the About Page), the artist responsible for the rad paint job, […]
Fuel Line Replacement Leads to Engine Drop
One of the number one things people recommend when you purchase an old VW is to replace the fuel lines. VW used rubber fuel lines in their early models. After 30-sum-odd-years these rubber fuel lines become dried out and cracked thus making them susceptible to leaking. When you have gasoline leaking around an engine that […]