1974 Ford Econoline Camper Van Super Van

On my birthday, a few more van conversion ideas, plus a look at just how "primitive" vans were during the year of my 1974 Western Road Trip, as compared to the middle-1990s.  It would be interesting to think about how different traveling in a van during that time might have been.  Before the ages of the Internet, Personal Computers, Digital Cameras, Cell Phones, ...

Considering the issue of occasional high crosswinds in the Great Plains and elsewhere across the West, the lower profile (and center-of-gravity) of the 1968 Pontiac Catalina wagon would have pleased my safety-conscious Dad. 

A little more about nostalgia, the 1974 Road Trip, and the inspiration of the Writing Project about that "crossroads event".  As a "postscript" to that 2019 post, my wife was hurt in a September 2019 car accident, her 9th car accident since 1979 (none of them were her fault), eight of the accidents were her getting "rear-ended", which was the case in 2019.  Anyway, among the effects of that accident were my "losing my 'mojo'" in regards to the spirit of my writing project.

A point not considered by younger people, even though she "recuperated" from the injuries of the previous accidents, there are unforeseen cumulative effects that show up over the passing decades, primarily as neck and back problems.  

Those cumulative effects are why she can only handle about 6  hours of van travel per day, even though the front seats are fairly comfortable.  This "limiting factor" likely led to us skipping a few sights, e.g., Devils Tower, The South Dakota Badlands, etc., if we had "longer days" available.