Green Van Story

Combined Routes of the Green Van

48 States 3 Provinces and Hawaii and Tijuana on the Side

Mono Lake

House of Refuge

Acadia National Park

Fort Niagara

Badlands

Lighthouse

New Mexico Back Road

Yellowstone Fly Fishing

Northwest Corner

Glacier Na. Park

Haystack Rock

Snake River

Monterey Coast

Crater Lake

Yosemite

Whale tail

Central Park Castle

Hyannis Port

Atlantic City

Outer Banks Pier

Savannah

Hawaii

Balboa Park

My Favorite Bear

Great Plains View

Skyline Drive

Back during the 1980's I outfitted a green Ford E100 long body van as a self-contained living quarters and traveling art studio. I would save up some money and take off on another adventure to discover america, see the sights, go to museums, gardens, anything of interest. Plus I took photos and did sketches and oil paintings as I traveled. All together I must have traveled more than 100,000 miles and spent more than two years at various times living in the van. I had three basic rules: avoid the interstate highways, no fast food restaurants (donut shops were ok), and never pay to stay anywhere overnight. Now I would like to get a Sprinter van and convert it to burn both diesel and french fry oil and go see what I missed and how things have changed.

Somewhere in Montana the day my rear wheel fell off going down the highway at 40 miles per hour.