Tiny Home on Wheels and Chinese Van

Dear Lloyd

I saw this van & cabin set-up here in Birkenhead, Auckland.

The first thing I thought was, is that a sauna on a trailer? Nope. It’s a cabin on a trailer. I’m really not sure how you’d get the cabin off the trailer. Perhaps once the trailer gate comes down, you can get a forklift in there.

The van is a SAIC, a state owned Chinese company, the made in China Sprinter, if you will.*

I hope you had a blast in Mexico.

Cheers
Dan (Dwyer)

*All-electric, up to 210 mile range, appears to be about half the cost of a gas-powered Sprinter van, BUT I believe not available in US.

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About Lloyd Kahn

Lloyd Kahn started building his own home in the early '60s and went on to publish books showing homeowners how they could build their own homes with their own hands. He got his start in publishing by working as the shelter editor of the Whole Earth Catalog with Stewart Brand in the late '60s. He has since authored six highly-graphic books on homemade building, all of which are interrelated. The books, "The Shelter Library Of Building Books," include Shelter, Shelter II (1978), Home Work (2004), Builders of the Pacific Coast (2008), Tiny Homes (2012), and Tiny Homes on the Move (2014). Lloyd operates from Northern California studio built of recycled lumber, set in the midst of a vegetable garden, and hooked into the world via five Mac computers. You can check out videos (one with over 450,000 views) on Lloyd by doing a search on YouTube:

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