
The second day went a lot smoother. We still had another 600 miles to cover but had no major mishaps. Missiouri had it’s share of hills and twisty roads but Kansas was just a bore. For lunch today we went to the Arthur Bryant’s Barbeque in St Louis. It is apparently famous as one of […]

Here are some photos to show our progress so far. The first day started out a little rough so I am writing this on the second day. Here we are all packed up and ready to go. I thought we had it planned out pretty well but we had trouble before we were outside of […]

.flickr-photo { border: 1px dotted #cc0000; }.flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } mapoverview, originally uploaded by prisonvan. I have been planning a trip around the United States for over a year. Jenny and I are finally doing it. Here is the route as of […]

I am finally getting around to taking some photos of the van. I should have taken before shots and documented some of the projects but I didn’t. I bought this van at an auction from the State of Michigan last year. It was used to transport prisoners. It looked basically like a REALLY dirty church […]

I built this new snack tray/cupholder for the van. I recently got a GPS system for my laptop and wanted a better place to put the laptop while we drove. I didn’t want to lose any of the features I had with the old one so I came up with this fold out design. This […]