Welcome everybody. This is Toni and this is Franzi and we are living in our self
converted Mr. Wombat.
We traveled to Japan, Philippines, US. She was always the driver behind all of this
travel. I used to work for Amazon for almost six years. I got to a point where
you're really rethinking what you're gonna do in life. I worked in the
Japanese company and it was a nice job but still at the end of the day I was
not 100% passionate about it and I want to change and at the beginning he was
not so happy with that. People expect to build a house, have family. She started
talking about traveling the world. The more I was thinking about it the more I
felt confident to go this way with her. It took us I think almost two years to
decide finally even if people think we are completely stupid we will do our
thing and we are pretty confident it will work out anyway.
This is our Volkswagen. It's an at28 model. It was built in 1991. It was yellow
so we did the paint job on this. We worked on the body for almost three
months. Next to the driver area, the sides, we replaced them completely.
The seats are from T3 caravan made for long distances. We have hidden nice
lighting and everything is out of spurs. It's a 2.4 liter diesel engine. It has
65 horsepower. Name of the car is Mr. Wombat. Franzi mentioned during the process
the car looks like a wombat from the front. We have two spare wheels. One in
the back and one beneath. We cannot lock it from the outside. We can just lock it
like this and we have feel like a big safe and even if someone is able to get
into the car he will not be able to access this area. Place for water, some
spare parts for the car, for the bed, clothes in the back. There's also some
food. Here all the electric stuff. All the auto stuff behind the water container.
Slacklining here, solar shower. In case we get stuck anywhere. It happened two times
but it worked well with this. Some stuff for Franzi she loves to paint. We
have our table here. We have also put the windows into the car. We have two solar
panels each 140 watts.
We can source electricity from three different sources. Solar from the Sun.
From the engine. At the campsite somewhere we can also get the voltage from
there. Inverter which is up to 3000 watts and the system is connected to 280 ampr
AGM battery so if the sun is shining the battery is almost full. If
it's weather like this we can stay like three days without charging. It was
around 1400 euros. We can come from the driver area to the
back and you can pack everything quickly start the engine and go away. The fresh
water we can just replace. This is 20 liters and we have a gray water tank of
35 liters. If it's full we can open it here. It's more efficient and not so much
work and it's cleaner of course. We have in total five of these tanks. One always
here and if it's empty I just go to the back and I take one of the other four
in the back and we can stay seven to ten days. It's a Planar 44d.
It's a very good alternative. It costs
around 500 euros but it's worth the money. When we spend some cold days I
think when it was snowing we put it on and within five minutes the entire car
is warm. We tried to keep the car as much as possible out of gas. We have to use it
for cooking. Anything else is going with electricity or with diesel. The
controller for the heater you can set at a certain degree or you can just make it
the biggest and then when it's warm we regulate.
Actually this is my favorite part of the van because I like to cook a lot.
You have a lot of fruits, some oil, salt and pepper.
It's also fixed with screws so hasn't fallen down. I have more storage room.
Basically this is Tony's side so he keeps a lot of his clothes here. We have
some towels here, there's some cosmetics.
Toothbrush, hand towels, some more cosmetic stuff. Everything fixed with
magnets. Coffee, tea, these are for crumbles. I make sometimes oat crumble.
Our jars they are fixed with screws. More storage, plates, the garbage here. Our
emergency toilet. Normally we go outside and for all the ladies out there on
Amazon you can find device but I think that just works fine. You just put it
onto the bottle and think they are almost the same. Five kilo gas bottle
comes out here on the left side and here's our gas cooker. Just take it out
it's flexible you can cook outside. Put it here. It's pretty easy. At first we wanted to
install a fixed one but then we thought oh if you have the opportunity to just
move it wherever we want. We have a folding table and then to use it it's
basic, simple, but it works. So extension just push it up here. You can cook here if you want.
You can have dinner here. This is also from IKEA. It's good too if you have a lot of small things to
keep storage. Lot of jewelry. This is from the Philippines.
Bookshelf so we got a lot of books.
White sage to make a nice smell and remove all the bad energy and if you
want to be separated, at least a little even though you can see through, you can just use this one and
I can have my private now and read a book or whatever I want to do.
A fridge. It's a compressor fridge.
It's not running all the time. If it needs more power then it just goes on.
I think 40-45 liters and you can also use it as a freezer. Fits
like that so they don't fall down. This goes up so my yoga stuff, the boxes.
You can reach it from behind. Some more yoga stuff. Power for the fridge.
We can charge our camera and all that stuff. We also have USB. Come to the back.
Our dirty clothes storage underneath. We made some holes here
because on our first tour we didn't do this and then we had some mold. We made a
bed extension.
We have a screen here for movie nights. We can use it outdoor. Here's more storage.
Lot of clothes and the picture was made from one of our friends which we met on the
road in Greece in Papigo where we also adopted our two dogs. Television.
This is newly added. At the beginning I didn't like the idea but now I'm, I'm
okay with it, I like it actually a lot. Just like this. It's pretty
easy and we made this because the wall is not straight so antenna here. It's
sometimes funny to watch movies and series in other languages you know you
get to know the country.
Probably the quote of our project was "doing by mistakes" because we had
absolutely no background working with our hands but that's the reason why we
wanted to do it. In the end we wanted to say, "that's ours and we know everything
about it." Each screw was in our hand before it was screwed in the car.
Nobody can grab it from us. Should just start at some point. Be present, live now,
enjoy life, chase your dreams, follow your heart.
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