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  1. INTJohn

    Life At Kamp Koon………

    Kamp Koon is my hang near Lake Michigan in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. Its about 90 minutes NW of Grand Rapids on the edge of the Manistee National Forest and borders the Muskegon State Game area. I use Kamp Koon primarily as a base kamp from April to November tho sometimes I might stay...
  2. INTJohn

    LiFePo4 Battery & Replaceable BMS

    Manjufacturers market these batteries as having a 3000 to 5000 cycle life and or a 10 year lifespan. The strength of these types of batteries - the BMS (Battery Management System) - is also their weakness. Also, while the battery itself is marketed as lasting over 10 years, they generally carry...
  3. INTJohn

    6 Month Van Living Expenses

    My van living expenses for the 6 month period from Oct '23 thru March '24. (All 6 mo totals have been rounded up to the next hundred) I bought the van new 1 year ago to the day - 20 April, '23 for 50,000$ out the door and put 7000$ Into the build. For simple math I've rounded up the total...
  4. INTJohn

    Former Michigan football coach to live in RV

    Former University of Michigan head football coach Jim Harbaugh & wife will be livin the RV life in a motorhome down by the “ocean”. He recently was hired by the Los Angeles Chargers and moving cross continent from Michigan to LA and he’s decided to live in an RV down by the,ahem, not river but...
  5. INTJohn

    Florida House passes homeless public sleeping ban

    https://floridapolitics.com/archives/662675-homeless-crackdown/ https://www.wfla.com/news/politics/gov-desantis-endorses-bill-to-try-and-prevent-homelessness/amp/ https://floridaphoenix.com/2024/02/05/desantis-says-homelessness-isnt-a-major-problem-in-florida-but-could-be/ The measure...
  6. INTJohn

    Stealthin’ In The Keys……..

    Yeah, Florida Keys. Cause everyone wants to know……. First off, this thread is not a Jonny Boi lead seminar How To Instruction Manual as I’m not about to reveal any of ma specific trade parkin secrets acquired thru personal trial & tribulation along with a profound amount of worldly wisdom...
  7. INTJohn

    AT&T Network Down

    I woke this morning to no Wi-Fi connection; just the SOS Emergency Contact signal. It worked fine when I went to sleep. Immediately wondered is it on my end; my fone messed up or is it on ATT’s end. Happened to remember where there was an ATT dealer here in Ormond Beach and drove there to see...
  8. INTJohn

    SEASHELLS!!

    Ok; I’m officially declaring that my hobby on the road is looking for seashells. It’s been awhile in coming; an evolutionary process I suppose; since it wasn’t anything that really entered my mind as, you know, a goal. The goal, if there really was a goal was to simply enjoy my life hangin at...
  9. INTJohn

    Resetting BMS on my LiFePo4 battery

    Soooo I connected my 120 watt solar panel to my 100 ah LiTime LiFePo4 batt and managed to trip the BMS (battery management system) due to an overcharge error code. What exactly caused this I haven’t fully investigated yet but I have a couple hunches. The good news: the BMS worked as advertised...
  10. INTJohn

    2023 World Solar Challenge Concludes

    What it is: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Solar_Challenge This years winner: Team Belgium https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/2023/10/26/belgians-win-solar-challenge-the-world-solar-car-championships/#:~:text=It's%20yet%20again%20a%20Belgian,the%20previous%20edition%20in%202019. Me Bragging...
  11. INTJohn

    INTJohn’s Winter ‘23-‘24 Van Livin

    24 Oct’23 Yes left Kamp Koon in central West Michigan this morning headed south toward Indianapolis; temps were in the low 80’s! turned onto I-74 headed SE toward Cincinnati where I’m spending this night. 2maro ? Idk head toward a SC beach? What’s the plan? You ask? intjonny livin the dream
  12. INTJohn

    New Cancer Treatment Approved for Limited Trials

    Another great advancement by one of the greatest engineering & medical research universities in the world; the University of Michigan...
  13. INTJohn

    What are you doing today?!

    It’s football Saturday. I’ll be checking in on the noon kikoff Coloraska game and tuning into my Michigan Wolverines; 3:30 kikoff GO BLUE! My other alma mater Florida St plays 2nite. GO NOLES! Also; it’s dry the oak bark day, too. 🤷🏻‍♂️ Life at Kamp Koon. Ur turn- whatcha do un 2day? intjonny
  14. INTJohn

    This made me lmao 🤣

    How do people live as long as what they do? 😂😂😂😂 SMH jonny boi
  15. INTJohn

    My 2023 Promaster livability build

    Point of Beginning: https://vanlivingforum.com/threads/m-going-2-order-new-promaster.48208/ Well I ended up buying it off the lot vs ordering: Yep, that’s me when I got it back to Kamp Koon on April 20. Next order of business was to read the manual and turn off everything I could that beeped...
  16. INTJohn

    M going 2 order new Promaster

    Yep made the decision. When I return 2 Michigan in approximately 60 days will order a new Ram Promaster Van. 1500 136”wb low roof with but a few options frum Dodge’s “build a truck” site. That’s it and that’s that…… jonny boi wanting a new home
  17. INTJohn

    How much is enuff?

    😂😂😎
  18. INTJohn

    Holidays are for the slaves……..

    Since its 'thats time of year' thanksgiving, christmas, New Years holidays……… What do calendar appointed days off with pay matter to us free & independent nomads? What do weekends, paid vacations, 'time off' from ones indentured servitude matter to us individualistic vagabonds? No, Happy...
  19. INTJohn

    Happy Birthday US Marine Corps

    10 Nov 1775; like all great things it began in a bar…….. …..and I’m trying to remember a good quote from this movie that won’t get this post deleted. Sayin…… Happy Birthday Jarheads. intjonny luzsha baybee alway have alway will
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