The answer depends. To best understand why we laid Appa out the way that we did let's look at our family dynamic and goals at the time. At the time of planning our layout, we were a family of four - two children: a newborn and an almost 2-year old. Appa is a 33' bus, which is not as big as some - but bigger than others. Full size school buses are usually 40' - 45' long. With these key points, here are some design goals we kept in mind: We wanted to be able to put the kids dow

The year was 2018. It was pre-COVID, and #vanlife was not yet universally recognized as being hip, but reminiscent of the Chris Farley SNL sketch : I live in a van down by the river Paige and I and our then nearly 2 year old daughter were camping our way down the California coast in our pop-top VW Eurovan after having lost out on an 11-acre property near Eugene, Oregon to a better offer. We had wanted to start a homestead, change our lifestyle, and give our daughter (and her

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