kulshresthazone
Rahul Kulshrestha
Travelling bug bit me in 2010, when I went through his ladhak travel logs. Post then travelled regularly to lower the itch to bearable level.
I have been planning to do coastal trip , they never got implemented.
Due to covid there came an opportunity to work from home and then the trip planning and implementation happened.
The plan was to travel with my 8 years Safari storme which has already clocked 1.2 lac km. With time it also has it moods and tantrums on all the trips. Never faced them whenever travelled with Yogesh, however always faced them when travelled without him.
So decision has to be made based on history of trouble's and there learnings till date. However leaving haathi was also not an option as it has enough space to live-in and work from car option..
Post diwali the preparation began. Problems to take care were..
1. A bed would be needed if want to sleep in car .
2. Power solution needed to work from car.
3. Enough space needed to store car and mine spares.
To tackle the problem of sleeping in the car I went to aluminium fabricator and bought a 17 feet 1 inch square pipe. This square pipe will be used to creat the frame for bed which will be placed in the boot and jump seats will be removed as they are not needed. Frame was made to have a storage under it and seats were folder and levelled to the frame to have sleeping bed of approx 5 feet enough for me.
Intially I tried to cut and join the aluminium frame , while working on that I realised that it will be good to reach out a fabricator as he will have all tools , so I tried many fabricator but they quoted the amount very high as 2000 inr. Fortunately I was able to find a person who did this for 600 inr.
Bed frame in progress
So finally sleeping and storage solution was ready .
Now next challenge was to have a battery pack to power my laptop. However having batteries won't solve the problem as you need to feed them up regularly so that you can milk them on regular basis. Answer was to connect them to the car battery and charge them while on the move and once you stop isolate the battery from the main car battery. For this you a proper wiring and switches which would be able to handle that.
To be continued...
I have been planning to do coastal trip , they never got implemented.
Due to covid there came an opportunity to work from home and then the trip planning and implementation happened.
The plan was to travel with my 8 years Safari storme which has already clocked 1.2 lac km. With time it also has it moods and tantrums on all the trips. Never faced them whenever travelled with Yogesh, however always faced them when travelled without him.
So decision has to be made based on history of trouble's and there learnings till date. However leaving haathi was also not an option as it has enough space to live-in and work from car option..
Post diwali the preparation began. Problems to take care were..
1. A bed would be needed if want to sleep in car .
2. Power solution needed to work from car.
3. Enough space needed to store car and mine spares.
To tackle the problem of sleeping in the car I went to aluminium fabricator and bought a 17 feet 1 inch square pipe. This square pipe will be used to creat the frame for bed which will be placed in the boot and jump seats will be removed as they are not needed. Frame was made to have a storage under it and seats were folder and levelled to the frame to have sleeping bed of approx 5 feet enough for me.
Intially I tried to cut and join the aluminium frame , while working on that I realised that it will be good to reach out a fabricator as he will have all tools , so I tried many fabricator but they quoted the amount very high as 2000 inr. Fortunately I was able to find a person who did this for 600 inr.
Bed frame in progress
So finally sleeping and storage solution was ready .
Now next challenge was to have a battery pack to power my laptop. However having batteries won't solve the problem as you need to feed them up regularly so that you can milk them on regular basis. Answer was to connect them to the car battery and charge them while on the move and once you stop isolate the battery from the main car battery. For this you a proper wiring and switches which would be able to handle that.
To be continued...
