She's a 1993 VW Eurovan, equipped with pop top, two-burner stove, sink, sleeps 4 (if two are willing to sleep in the bunk in the pop top).
No awning - yet. This is a priority for me to provide covered outdoor space. But very expensive ($2,000) to buy an installed one. A post on the Vancouver Island VW Camper Facebook Page led me to Dr. Bjorn's Auto, a Cobble Hill company that is a dealer for the US company Bus Depot. They have what's called an EZY Awning, that I will be checking next week. II had thought a free-standing awning from Walmart might do in a pinch. The wheels attached to the carrying case gave it away - I'd be hard-pressed to move the thing, let alone put it up myself. And the EZY Awning promises that you can store it under a seat, which the Walmart option would not.
Another priority is to figure out how to lift the van's pop top. It looked easy when the seller - a late-30sh woman - showed me how. Me, I near broke my back on my first try. I need a stool to give me a few extra inches, a couple of more demos, and some upper back strengthening exercises before I will be able to manage it, I fear.
But my grandson, and fearless traveling companion, won't wait long. He can't wait to test out that upper bunk. But until I get it figured out he will have to stay home. I've slept with him before and it's like sharing a bed with sack of coal - hard to shift and taking up more than his share of the space.
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