Toms' home

If you read through the first page under RV's you know that my Tioga has a central door at the back. What you may not know is that that door no longer has a window in it. The frustrtations involved with trying to climb a mountain called "making your 20ft van a home" many times got to be too much for me and my damaged left brain.

I do not intend to go to lengths to explain each of my mistakes while attempting to "rehab" my Tioga-I do have some pride. Suffice to say that I made more mistakes, hurt myself in body and spirit more, than many might consider desireable. The window is broken, and must be replaced, the screen door no longer exists, and I have learned much about leveling a 20ft Class "C" on extreemly "unlevel" ground...

On the other hand, I mentioned "motive" on the previous page. There is that-motives I mean. True enough I could move into a room [share an apartment with someone else...] maybe... But I am convinced that I'd have made far less personal progress than I have now...

How my Tioga is designed

When you come in through the back door [get real-the drivers side door is uncomfortable to say the least! :-)] the P-side [passenger-side] has a half length closet with two drawers below it.

In front of that is a refridgerator with a furnace below it. The furnace uses a prodigious amount of propane and I have chosen to use a quartz heater instead.

In front of the furnace/refer is a 4 burner stove with an oven below.

Then comes what was a booth for eating. NOW it is a desk of sorts. Basically I removed the [removable] table and seating [Yeeeeee Ha!!! hard to screw that up-it was far more easy however to bang myself up... shoulda done this before my accident! :)] and installed a "U" shaped counter made from 3/4" plywood. Above that table top is a shelf shaped like an "L" with the bottom of the "L" reaching out to the center on the right hand side [if you are looking out the passenger side window]. That leg of the "L" that sticks out? It's for a standard microwave oven. This old pieced together computer sits on the desk/counter top. The shape of the "U" [maybe "n" is more accurate?] allows a roller desk chair to fit in and still allow passage between the "desk" and my bed...

Forward of my "desk" is what used to be a passenger seat. I gave up on the idea of a seat since post TBI, relationships are an "iffy" thing. Instead I took out the seat-threw it away. I installed a [really crude] set of shelves with another wooden "counter top" extending from the dashboard back to the existing seperator [divider?] that still exists behind where the p.seat once sat. Did that make any sense at all...? Spatially, and "Spatial-verbally" I'm not so very good anymore...

I ran a [removable] plywood board the length of the dash board to use as storage space-for heavens sake! This is a 1973 Dodge, I can't reasonably get full coverage insurance for it, it really is for me, a mobileHOMEand I don't intend to move it very much at all! 'Course if I NEED to...hehehhhh.... I can... It's paid for, and it is mine... <G>

Yes, so... I have kept the drivers seat <VBG> kinda necessary! <G> and there is a divider behind it that serves as a headboard for my bed/sofa.

The bed runs 6 ft along the d-side [drivers side] and above it are two shelves suspended from the overhead compartments by chains. Those chained shelves are for books/magazines and do not extend too terribly far out into the center. That allows someone to come in and sit on the bed without hitting their head. Now there are some extended hooks attached to the over head compartments that may have things hanging from them and those may indeed pose a problem at times...-HEY! IT'S ONLY A 20 FOOTER! <g>

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