Yup, Jet! I'm interested in your post and updates about that experience of yours. It seems that the van life is growing vastly globally and this trend is what it's like to be living freely and while going on with the adventures. I think you're all prepared for that and the power source going out with a solar panel board at the top of your van will help you a lot. I've watched van life videos and not all of them have it and that will help you go on with a power source for running a node and mining. Just don't forget to do what makes you happy and what you think will be worth it as you go on with your van life.

You seem to have lots of work to do left, but I salute your efforts and what you already achieved, both BTC-mining related and overall.
Do you think it's viable to get the rig popularized on Youtube? I would watch a series about your venture and updates about it on Youtube of course, but, it would need a refined marketing to get the users rolling to it to be profitable.

Here is an update on leaving the network traffic screen running in a supermarket cafe. A couple of days ago I was in the Sainsbury's cafe, and I left the screen running on the Notebook while I did some stuff on the Netbook. I ignored it for over an hour, and when I looked at it, I noticed that there had been no traffic for about 20 minutes, so it looks as if O2 ( their WiFi  supplier) monitors activity, and block what it considers toi be excessive use. I really don't like O2, as they block some of my domains. Kat1.com for example. Now, you tell me why that page could be considered not to be family friendly. The stupid part is that I can tether my 'phone, and display the page for all to see if I want to. Gambling sites like my Free Bitcoin Bets are not restricted, and I would have thought it better to stop kids looking at gambling sites.

Yesterday I decided to replace Bodhi on the Netbook as I was having problems with the Bluetooth. It's an old HP netbook with limited resources, so I need a light version of Linux. I installed a few flavours of Linux, and they all had problems, so I decided to revert to Bodhi. I'd overwritten the iso files, so I tried to re-download the latest version. O2 kept killing the download, so I wasted a lot of time as I thought it was a source forge problem. Last night I did a bit of dog sitting for a friend while he went toi a rehearsal for his rock band. Bodhi installed without any problems over his WiFi, and I managed to tune up the installation. The only difficulty was his dog, as he wanted to sit on my lap whilst I was working. He is a rottweiler/staffie cross, so he is a bit big for a lap dog.

I guess the message here is that, if you are a vanlifer, you need to think about ways to manage intensive Internet activity. 10 minutes or so of node synchronisation seems to be OK, but good luck if you want to download the whole blockchain. Next time I want to experiment with OS installs, I'll probably go to a public library.