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 […]
Hippie Van Man Interview for Cheapflights.com: How to plan an epic road trip
I was recently interviewed by cheapflights.com travel columnist Taryn Adler. She wanted the low-down on how to plan an epic road trip. Here is a re-post of the interview. The original can be found by clicking here. Warm weather means road trip season – woohoo! To help you plan, we caught up with the guy […]
Continuing the Developing Nations Project Aboard the Hippie Van
For those who have followed my travels prior to the Hippie Van Man project. You will know I started another travel project previously while on my 11-month India/South East Asia backpacking trip in 2011/2012. For those who don’t know about the project, here is a link to that blog, The Developing Nations Project. In short, […]
10 Life Lessons Travel Has Taught Me
I think Miriam Beard may have said it best, “Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living”. After traveling to over 30 countries in the past five years, I have grown immensely as a person and learned many invaluable life […]
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 […]
The Automobile I Always Wanted
From time to time I browse a classifieds-website called Craigslist. Sometimes I browse it because I’m looking for work or I need to buy something or want to sell something, and other times I browse out of sheer boredom. One day back in April I came across a 1979 Volkswagen T2 Transporter Van (aka VW’s […]