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I guess my design philosophy has been different than most of the other rigs here. I was shooting for simplicity and sustainability first, so a lot of the niceties, like teak flooring and cast-iron stoves, were not in the works.
But we lived in this for two months last year, and most summer weekends the year before. It runs on vegetable oil and 112 watts of solar panels and a 100 ampere-hour battery provide all the electricity we need.
Besides camping, we use VVG to haul our wares around to art festivals, where people come in our tent and say, "This is wonderful! I've never seen anything like this before!" then leave without buying anything.
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On the Veggie Van Gogh website are lots of other photos, plus design notes and diagrams for the vegetable oil fuel system I use, as well as a blog where we describe last summer's journey. Last summer, we burned over 300 gallons of waste vegetable oil that we scavenged for free from behind restaurants! Due to time constraints and injury, that was only about 1/3rd of the total fuel, but next year, our goal is a 100% vegetable-oil tour!