Doug,

Thank you SO much for taking the time and effort to share with all of us the lessons you’ve learned building / traveling with your own vehicle. There are a lot of good ideas in there and a lot to digest.

Some of it, we’re too far ‘down the road’ to fix at the moment, but a lot of the ideas will certainly be integrated. Rest assured that there are already a lot of ‘Hackney Elements’ in our camper, and when you walk around it I’m sure you will recognize some of them…

I owe you at least a beer, if not a very nice bottle of something with our stemware (which thanks to you, we’ll be sure to pack). We’ll share it with you at the Overland Expo in Arizona in April, where it looks like our two paths will cross.

We are currently pushing hard to have the truck ‘ready enough’ for it’s shake down trip to the Overland Expo. I’m really looking forward to meeting everyone there and sharing what we’ve done with the EcoRoamer and how it fits in with our Overlanding Non-Profit Group called The Muskoka Foundation.

We’ll see you there! Thanks again!