Most online family introductions have pictures of fluffy pets or tiny babies but our new family member is a van, a very very yellow van.
After months of searching for a van we somehow sold our family car privately and bought a van all in the same day. Bee is our only vehicle so we wanted something that would fit in most car parks but also big enough to convert into a campervan. Bee is a short-wheel, low roof transit custom that (as you may have guessed) used to be owned by the AA and was imaginatively named Bee by my daughter. Bee has a few more miles on the clock than we would have liked but fingers crossed that isn’t something we come to regret.
Why would anyone sell a very reliable family car to buy a commercial van?
After being inspired by all the conversion and vanlife youtubers that make it look easy we wanted to do a campervan conversion of our own. We have never done this before, we don’t know what we are doing, we don’t know what its going to look like, we don’t know what is going to cost and don’t know how long it is going to take but we will do a camper conversion.
With a jobs list longer taller than the van itself I will update this blog with the progress we make on the conversion so you can laugh at our mistakes. My ultimate goal is to get the van converted and drive to France to take my daughter to Disneyland Paris, hopefully before the van rusts to pieces or my daughter becomes an adult………wish us luck, we gunna need it!