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Solar Powered Electric Airstream Travel Trailer is Perfect For Off Grid Travelers

Solar Powered Electric Airstream Travel Trailer is Perfect For Off Grid Travelers. Airstream has partnered with Thor Industries and created what I believe to be the best travel trailer ever invented. With a 900W solar powered battery pack, dual motor system remote control maneuvering to park your trailer in just the right spot, this has it all. The dual motors cut down on drag coefficient and improves towing efficiently greatly because the trailer itself is powered by it’s own battery pack, and 900W solar power charging system. I haven’t seen many travel trailers that can complete with Airstream in quality and features, and this innovation, in my opinions make this new EStream Airstream the new go-to glamping and off grid travel trailer on the market. This is the quintessential solar powered travel trailer. Off Grid Technology As you know from reading my articles on this blog, I am a techy and I love new tech. I also have a great love and passion for the off grid lifestyle and living rustically in the wilderness in a hand built log cabin. I like BOTH lifestyles. The glamping is for me if I’m traveling, and I love to travel to see new things. I can’t think of a better way to not only make pulling a heavy travel trailer more efficient (especially up and down mountains), it makes your camping life easier. It luxury, it’s glamping, yes, and there’s nothing wrong with that. I love being comfortable while camping and traveling to remote areas of the country. Take a gander at this video below and see the new technology: Is “Glamping” Really Living Off Grid? Well, it you’re a full time RV’er and travel the country and live in a travel trailer, camper trailer or custom converted cargo van living the Vanlife, then yes, this is about as off grid as you can get. It’s also very comfortable and brings with it Airstream’s reputation for building the best travel trailers on the market. Built-In 900W Solar Panel Array On Roof For Charging The built-in 900W solar array on the roof in a nice touch. No more clunky ugly solar panels mounted, drilling holes in your roof. These are designed into the roof to keep is “stream-lined” just like all Airstream travel trailers are. You can even tow this baby with a Tesla electric vehicle. I mean. Come on! You can’t get more high-tech than that. The Future of Off Grid Technology In my opinion I think this is the future of off grid technology in general. More efficiency, longer range travel, more comfort, and if you tow your EStream with a Tesla you have TWO large battery packs to power your off grid travel lifestyle. You can truly be a high-tech off grid nomad. This is not for all homesteaders who just want their piece of nature in the remote wilderness and life off grid unencumbered by the status-quo of the system. This however about traveling off

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Simple Tiny Off Grid Cabin In The Woods

History Channel’s Alone series season 4, contestants of the husband and wife team, Dave Whipple, builds a simple tiny little off grid cabin in the woods out of commercial lumber. It’s a great little cabin, built simply with just the bare essentials. Nothing fancy, except maybe the tongue-and-groove wall paneling, and a nice little front porch that runs the length of the entire cabin. You could just sit out there and enjoy nature and the peace and quiet anytime you wanted. It’s a great little cabin build from start to finish. Dave is a good carpenter and you can tell he’s been doing this work a while just by the way he’s putting it together, you can tell he’s done this stuff before. Watch the video here: I like the video of the build and the detail showing how simple the whole process was to built it. If you have a team of maybe 2-3 people you could build something like this in a single day fairly easily. Dave has a little trouble with the front wall, a bit too heavy to raise by himself, but he improvises and cuts our the window areas and that lessens the weight for the wall so he can raise it into place with a little strain, but he got it done. He was not happy with himself for that little blunder because he was on a remote piece of property, with a chance of heavier snow coming in, and there was only one way in and out. If he had slipped or that wall had fallen on him while he was trying to raise it, it could have injured him, broke a leg, or crushed a rib or some other injury and it would immediately have become a survival scenario to get out from under the wall, and then to safety. I’m happy Dave was able to get it done safely. He said himself it wasn’t a wise thing to do to try to lift it himself like that. Lessen learned. The ease of which he built the cabin is inspiring. It’s a simple process. Starting with picking a location on the property for the cabin, clearing out some timber and branches of surrounding trees to open up the view, laying out the basic outline of the cabin foundation, on 6×6 pillars set deep into the hard packed earth (about 3-4 feet). Then layout out and nailing in the outer frame, floor joists, supports, underlayment plywood to keep the birds and squirrels out of the bottom of the cabin and from them stealing insulation for their nests. The the floor insulation, treated plywood floor, which appeared to be tongue and groove, I’m not sure about. that one. Then he added the back wall, which was much easier as it was shorter and much less lumber meaning it was easier to build and raise into place without much effort. Once the front deck was built, posts installed, and