(CCJ) If money weren't an issue

I would like to get another 60’s vw bus, and do the electric conversion. Both separately are just way too expensive to justify, even if I did everything myself. Perfect for getting groceries and camping trips. Lots of custom CNC parts can be used. Dreamy :star_struck:

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Love the Hippy bus electric camper conversion idea!

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I would like to install a coffee maker in every car in my new fleet of Lamborghini, Ferrari, McLaren, Aston Martin and Porsche daily drivers.

After that, I would embark on a round the world trip (in my own private wide body jet, of course), visiting my luxury properties in each country, and moving on at a whim.

In the real world, I’m already living the dream, albeit on a much more frugal scale.

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Mine would be a top notch shop!! A place for everything and everything in it’s place (with room for more cause some people have a hard time tossing stuff…you may need it!) Included with this is a 3D printing room that is jaw dropping in quality for the print farm. Everything carefully thought out and placed.

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I am not allowed to say because it’s political. :face_savoring_food::grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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A shop is nice though. I’d like a UV laser and a drum sander.

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Money is always an object, lol.

So is time. Some say they’re the same, or at least related.

If I had both, I’d be building stuff. Whatever caught my interest, probably starting with a workshop to do the other things. Building stuff is my hobby, though I started in order to save money, the doing became the point at some time along the way. Doing things just because I can, and it’s cool.

I’ve built many DIY projects that cost as much or more than commercial offerings. Sometimes to get things just so, but more often because building it was enjoyable. Sometimes it let me learn mode about how stuff works. Sometimes though it really did save money over the alternative.

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If money wouldn’t be an issue I would buy all agricultural land around our ex-farm and rent is out to more nature loving farmers, further on I would restore the buildings of our ex-farm, so I could house more V1 machines. And I would buy my sons more equipment for them to chase their dreams…. One of our sons wants to become a blacksmith, ( a blacksmith’s fire is on its way) one a rocket engineer (what should I get for him?), the other just wants to grow older so he can make up his mind :grinning_face: So its food and love for him…

Oh and I would like to work less, so I have more time for wife, kids and hobbies

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To actually get to build the RocketHound Homestead 2.0. A minimum oftTwenty acres of land far enough out of town that no one bothers us but still makes town accessible. Must have slope and must have an active stream. Most also be mixed growth. We are not looking for a huge flat piece of land. Must be in a county that allows shooting on ones own land.

Build the house with the lessons we learned from Version 1.0 along with way, more shop space and maker space. Enough flat land to house gardens and some livestock along with at least one Percheron mule for me and a good horse for her (her past life, figuratively speaking) was training horses.

Connected to the grid but, fully self-producing through Solar and micro-hydro power. Will have battery backup for at least 4 weeks of no power production. You did say money was no object!

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A forest and a saw mill!

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SpaceX… :smiley: Needs an owner that cares for the environment.

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Oh yeah, that is the dream. Year round water and varying landscape to hike on, neighbors far enough away that I can blast the music occasionally outside louder than the CNC.

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We got the new* VW ID.Buzz. It is awesome. Definitely a lot of room inside for projects and activities. Unfortunately, it would be too small for our family of 4 to sleep in. But I am just happy to have a big car for bringing everything with us to go tent camping. Someday, it may be old and I’ll be willing to build it out for camping for just the two of us.

We get a lot of questions. “Can you camp in it?” Is usually one of the first. One person asked us if it was a classic bus that we electrified.

* to the US

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