Hey guys, I'm Dakota from majorfomo.com. I'm originally from Sacramento, a guy here in Alaska during the summer and during the off seasons I travel and kind of figure out where I want to end up along the way. I'm here to show you my 82 Turbo Diesel West Follies setup that I have started living out of recently. Found an awesome deal on it and decided to fly one way and drive it back across the country. Then moved out, packed my stuff in here and drove from Sacramento to Seward. So I put about 8,000 miles on it in the first month that I've owned it. It's been rad, this place has been like Neverland. So I work up here seasonally, work up here in the summer. This is my third summer in Seward. In the past I spent some time traveling in between and then gone back to Sacramento, but this is the first year I decided I wanted to kind of go with whatever inspired me and that's why I bought the van. And also it's a lot easier to take Logan the dog here with me. So we have here and funny enough, apparently everything I have here is color coded including my dog. I have my mountain bike here that I kind of get around town with while my van is set up. That's kind of like my around town transportation. All right, so yeah, around back you can see my car top box that's really convenient for wind. I'm traveling around. I tend to take a lot of gear now that I'm living in this. So I can throw a lot of stuff up there when I'm traveling. And then when I'm parked here, I kind of leave just a few things in there that I'm not really going to use throughout the summer. So it's just kind of like having a little mobile storage unit. While the van is in house mode to have the top blasted up and that gives me a lot of room inside and we'll see that later. Got a spot for Logan to hang out and sunbathe here and also have my at a room. Now this was probably the best purchase I've made since I've got the van. It quadrupled my square footage. Gave me a lot of space to store the things I don't really need every day so that the inside of the van is really comfortable for living. So the tank I picked up from Bus Depot, it's made for the Westphalia. It sets up perfectly and gives you a lot of extra room. It's got really strong stable aluminum poles and it's just staked down in there and it's I mean it's held up to winds that are about twice as strong as what we're dealing with now and no problem. Yeah and so let's go over here and we can check out the atter room. All right so heading into the atter room. This thing is fantastic. It's giving me a lot more space. You can see I have room to store my firewood. A bunch of gear that I don't necessarily use every day at my storage tote. Extra water. Keep a lot of coffee, extra food. Just kind of whatever that I don't necessarily want in my living space every day. So a few other things that I really like about this atter room. One, as you can see I have no problem standing up really anywhere in this atter room. I'm 62 so that's pretty key. A lot of times when you're camping you're doing that hunched over thing when you're trying to get dressed. Not super fun if you're doing that. So the window on the outside has a canvas piece that we can roll down if I just want some shade and if it's raining it's actually as a clear rubber section that I can roll down and keep dry but still let sunlight in if that's what you want. So you can really customize your feel in your atter room. All three of these walls. So this wall here the front wall and the wall on the other side can all be lifted up and there's extra poles. You can be a giant shade structure instead of a room which is pretty cool if you just have a nice day and you want a lot of people over and you're hanging out. This door leads to the side of the van and what's really nice is there's a section in between the tent and the van that you can store things. So I store the extra pieces of the atter room not using it and actually the pup food fits perfectly in here. So Logan's food is in there and then it's covered as well so you have a covered entry from your tent to your van and yeah we can pop in here and check the van out. All right welcome to the master bedroom of the Gypsy Mansion. This is really where all the cool stuff is. So over here we have the stove. There's actually a three gallon propane tank attached the outside that feeds in. So two burner stove. You can do a lot of cooking in here. When my cast iron skillet it's kind of my go-to. We have a sink here. Under here is a 15 gallon fresh water tank. So we have running water in here. I have a refrigerator and right now it's also running off the propane so it's nice. It can be completely unplugged and still have a refrigerator. Not much going on in there now. The storage is really nice. I can just keep utensils and things in here. I can keep a lot of food. Yeah a lot of coffee going on down there. Hold on a second. Hey! Uh-uh! Leave it. There's a dog. You can see Logan knows where the comfy spot is. This is sweet. There's actually a wardrobe in here. So if you want to keep some nice clothes not wrinkled. I got that in there. There's a mirror. You need to do your hair or whatever you need to do. Okay so you got a hot date. And yeah I tend to store the swords up here. My hats. My socks and underwear things like that. So it's really nice. You can really get things dialed in. All right so I've top here. I actually use a storage. So a lot of my clothes are going up here. Some food on one side. Which is really nice. You can just have kind of your closet up here if you need to. But also this pops out into a second bed. So if you wanted to use it as that some people like to sleep up top and leave this down here for a living space. I choose to use it for storage but pretty quickly this can pop out and you have another bed up top. Pretty nice. Around the top this is kind of your mechanism for lowering and lifting the top. It can be tough which is one of the reasons why I empty everything out of that storage box if I am going to be lifting it. So you have a bug net here. So if you want some fresh air and want to keep the bugs out you can just zip this clothes and you have your little insect screen. And again if it's raining you have another canvas piece you can zip closed. Really waterproof and being in a very rainy place. We're in a temperate rainforest here in Surradalaska and this is held up very well. And last but not least we have the front of the van which again very well thought out. Captains chairs are really fun. The front seats swivel around. The driver seat does as well. Just kind of have a better hangout spot. A really good space if you're hanging out with someone in your van home. A beer box with plastic bagging it is a really great trash can so you don't have to get too fancy with it. The van also comes with curtains everywhere so also being somewhere where you have 22 and a half hours a day light during the summer it's pretty nice to be able to block that sun and get some sleep. So one other thing I like that's kind of a not so much a technical feature. It's just a fun feature. A switch has been put in here so that I can turn my radio on without the keys being in the ignition which is key because if you're hanging out you're parked somewhere and you want to have a beer. If you're keys are in the ignition they can actually get you in a lot of trouble even if you are set up for camping not playing on going anywhere. So being able to have your tunes on and your keys somewhere will prevent you from potentially getting a DUI or getting trouble for drinking in your vehicle. So this is my place. So yeah I would love to share my adventures with you guys. You can check me out in its majorfomo.com and from there you can find links to my Instagram, to my Facebook, to my Twitter. So yeah I'd love to share it with you and come check it out.