KMR
Adventurer
My wife and I share a computer, yesterday she saw a Mog pic on the desktop I had saved from the camper thread, much to my surprise she said "that thing is so cool, we should just get one of those and live in it" :yikes:
The only reason I am so surprised (my wife is really cool about this stuff) is that I have been trying to gently convince her that something like this would be cool, but in a trailer form. She relayed to me that trailers are unacceptable, but if she had something she could move around on really big tires and point to whatever view she felt like, THAT would be cool. Rather than waiting and saying we will get a camper/Mog type vehicle someday, why not now?
We are at the point in our lives were we are ready to buy a house, but we are not ready to be tied to where we live, we have more options for places to park a home rather than buy a home, and an investment in this kind of "home" could follow us for the rest of our lives, under its own power. We absolutely adore adventure travel, it is basically what we live for and while an "rv" of this nature could be considered quite lavish, as a home, it is quite reasonable, with a lower environmental impact.
It could be a portable base camp because that is all our apartment is. I am sure that we would be skirting all kinds of legal issues and living in a vehicle like this would require very special attention to utilities, fresh water, waste water, electric generation (generator, solar panels, wind turbine, plug into the grid.....) But it could be feasible, and boy is it fun to dream about this stuff with the support of your wife.
SO...........are there any US based companies that make HUGE 4X4 camper trucks? Like, crap out a 4wheeler huge? Something that you could park and live out of for months? Did any thing happen with the whole UnicatAmerica thing? We are willing to spend as much as a house, but houses are really cheap around here and I think Unicats are as much as a really expensive house.
Not really willing to look at typical US style "motorhomes" because there is no way we would be able to park it anyplace we would actually want to live (and my wife would not think it was cool, so no-go). But, we have our Landcruiser for expedition travel, this would get very little abuse and not be asked to do any crazy rock crawling or sand dune hopping.
Something like this, note the full lift up roof. Actually, I love this one.
http://www.unicatamericas.com/img/VXL16HD.3-560.jpg
The only reason I am so surprised (my wife is really cool about this stuff) is that I have been trying to gently convince her that something like this would be cool, but in a trailer form. She relayed to me that trailers are unacceptable, but if she had something she could move around on really big tires and point to whatever view she felt like, THAT would be cool. Rather than waiting and saying we will get a camper/Mog type vehicle someday, why not now?
We are at the point in our lives were we are ready to buy a house, but we are not ready to be tied to where we live, we have more options for places to park a home rather than buy a home, and an investment in this kind of "home" could follow us for the rest of our lives, under its own power. We absolutely adore adventure travel, it is basically what we live for and while an "rv" of this nature could be considered quite lavish, as a home, it is quite reasonable, with a lower environmental impact.
It could be a portable base camp because that is all our apartment is. I am sure that we would be skirting all kinds of legal issues and living in a vehicle like this would require very special attention to utilities, fresh water, waste water, electric generation (generator, solar panels, wind turbine, plug into the grid.....) But it could be feasible, and boy is it fun to dream about this stuff with the support of your wife.
SO...........are there any US based companies that make HUGE 4X4 camper trucks? Like, crap out a 4wheeler huge? Something that you could park and live out of for months? Did any thing happen with the whole UnicatAmerica thing? We are willing to spend as much as a house, but houses are really cheap around here and I think Unicats are as much as a really expensive house.
Not really willing to look at typical US style "motorhomes" because there is no way we would be able to park it anyplace we would actually want to live (and my wife would not think it was cool, so no-go). But, we have our Landcruiser for expedition travel, this would get very little abuse and not be asked to do any crazy rock crawling or sand dune hopping.
Something like this, note the full lift up roof. Actually, I love this one.
http://www.unicatamericas.com/img/VXL16HD.3-560.jpg
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