No preparation makes for an exciting journey!  

The new Van was about a week old, the radio is still broken and most of the equipment in storage or cluttered around the flat. So as any reasonable person would, I decided to skip testing the systems and collecting my travel gear but made a list informingly titled "The List" with what I thought I'd need for a four day Festival and staffed everything into the van.
For a radio a BoomBox Extreme lent her services and as the battery control system is not jet working properly (I think) two 11kg gastanks and my whole EcoFlow System (powerbank, solar panels and dual fuel generator) accompanied me in a possible overkill of power-delivery-capacity.
Driving long distances in a new van is always exciting, especially if its the first time driving stick for longer distances after longer abstinence from a clutch. The van did admirable but starts to guzzle some gas over 140kph. Being the wheeled cupboard the transit is one finds one self in a continuous argument with side winds. The 170 horsepower won't win you any races but is quite sufficient for the main roads. Leaving those a very short first and second gear tends to motivate ones left foot but they make for excellent powercontrol.
Shortly after arriving at the town next to the festival the police invited us to a five hour dee-tour through the Bavarian landscape in a stop and even sometimes go mode. As the sun tried to fry us, the air conditioning thought valiantly and kept even the bed area comfortable. This created the perfect opportunity to test all those fancy Sunlight systems, the loo did exactly what a loo does, thou closing the door ended the AC's impact on the then very hot wet-area. The fridge cooled admirably as well, while the 100l water tank acted as a well of astonishingly cold water for other Metalheads. (yes legends are told of Metalheads drinking water are as true as they are scary).
After arriving at the campsite at night, I was quit happy not setting up my tent but driving onto my levelling wedges and calling it a night. The first day brought not just reorganising the chaos I created while hustling to get the festival gear into the van but a first heat test. With no clouds, 30 degrees (Celsius that is) at 11 o'clock in the morning and no coverage the van heated up rather quickly, even with all shades closed and the windows cracked open just a bit. However it never got unbearable as long as i kept the air flowing some how. A special mention to a cheap USB-Fan i got the day before.
Throughout the festival everything that worked before I started kept working and I fear I now fully graduated to the glamping-festival-style. However spending some days in the van one thing is certain - there is still a lot to be done, gaps to be closed, wiring to be optimised, solar to be installed, rubber-bands and closet-boards to be mounted and loads of organising to be done.
For now the new van got his metal-baptism and is eagerly awaiting longer journeys.