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I guess I won’t make my self imposed deadline of today to get the camper out somewhere, probably the RRO as I have access to that. However, today I rehung the door and found it to be too large. Weird as it did fit before but there were several coats of paint and I put caulk on the aluminum angle before putting it back on. I rasped the door and bit and it fits though tight.Put shelves in the cargo area up front, tweaked the electrical a little bit but haven’t run the wiring into the cabin yet.Installed six latches to hold the lid down when the flip ups are down. Each is supposedly able to hold my weight and more. The last thing I want is the lid to fly off while in transit. Here are six LED switch lights like those you find at Harbor Freight, regularly $4.49 now on sale for $2.99. They seem to do a good job and also when in use the camper will have six windows to let natural light in. I thought about blue lights that are free almost every weekend, I have a dozen or so, but preferred the simple on/off of these. These are running on four AAA batteries each and if I find myself switching out batteries too much I’ll consider wiring them together and attaching to a six volt lantern battery.

How’s the camper coming, you ask? Today I added a 30 amp power cord hooked up to the circuit box. I need to ground it and then run wiring into the cabin. As I don’t have anything inside to mount the GFCI receptacles to yet, I’m not sure what I should do next on that though a small hole in the interior wall leading into the cabin seems like a good idea. The other picture shows the lid on top of the camper for the first time ever. I’m going to add the latches that will keep it from flying off and probably take it back off tomorrow or Sunday. It does fit and the roof vent clears the garage door by well over 2 inches. Yay!

The project is approaching a milestone. Although there is still plenty to do – wiring, bed, cabinets, privy – I’m rapidly approaching a point where I have something that is more than the sum of its parts. I will have something I can take out and spend the night.

Yesterday and this morning, I installed the portal windows in the flip up walls. Then with the help of Sam, I installed those flip up walls. In the first picture, you can see the back of the camper with one one of the flip ups. In the next, you can see the flip ups in their full and upright positions that raise the roof 16 inches (or 406 mm if you prefer) with their nautical style portal windows. It seems weird to have the windows open inward but I’ll be glad I did them that way the first time I’m caught in a sudden downpour and don’t have to go outside to close them.

The third picture shows the flip ups lowered, front and back resting on the sides. The final picture shows the expansive back porch and a view of floor. At the far end will be a bench the converts to bunk beds. Behind the blue tape in the foreground is the “not very” privy. On the left will be storage and a kitchenette (yet to be designed but I have the sink). The door is ready to hang but would be in the way right now.