7/12/18 - Heat
It’s so hot. Like, unbearably hot.
We spent yesterday at the Omaha zoo, since a friend paid for our tickets for us. We were there from open til close and we had a huge blast, but it was also very taxing on us physically, I think. I managed to get sunburned through my shirt (hooray, again) and I’m dealing with the way my skin gets oily and tight because of it.
We were smelling terrible and were exhausted so we decided to indulge in a shower but as soon as we got back to the van, we were coated in sweat again. I already wasn’t feeling good, suffering from some mild dehydration, so I was feeling pretty sour and wanted to just lay down for bed. This turned out to be a wasted effort.
We don’t have a roof vent right now and the way the bed is set up, we just have no way of getting any ventilation. So picture if you will two guys with mild heat exhaustion laying in bed with nothing but a small usb-powered fan to cool us. Tobi lets off.. a lot of heat; he just naturally runs hot. I run cold and don’t do well in the heat at all, so I’ve already been irritable and uncomfortable in the last week. So last night I woke up out of a dead sleep after only resting for 45 minutes and something was wrong. Y’know how you can just tell something’s wrong with your body? I woke up to that.
I had to crawl over onto the ground and open the side door to let some semblance of a breeze move through so i could cool down, and not a lot else was helping. We can’t keep ice for more than a day and a half (even 20 pounds just disappears) and we’ve barely been able to spend any time in the van at all. which, honestly understandable given circumstance but its hard to feel like you’re at home when you can’t spend any time at home. Everything about our van is designed to withstand cold temperatures, not hot.
The first trial week we ran our water jugs froze over because it was so cold, so we figured it’d be more of a problem than it is. Guess we overestimated.
So with it being too hot to cook, we’re eating out a lot (as cheap as we can get), trying to find colder weather where we can, and spending a lot of time in public libraries, stores, etc to get some relief. It sorta figures that the summer we decide to move into the van is the summer that we experience one of the worst heatwaves in memory.












