ilovegt100,
I live in Austin and am just starting the process of getting an SMB. Your Sprinter was one of the vans used by Paul to show us various options. I'll say your pictures do not do it justice. It is one beautiful SMB.
I'm getting pretty excited and nervous about our SMB build and I live 10 minutes from SMB. I cannot imagine the anticipation of a long distance build.
I'm curious how extensively you had the dynomat used and how much that upgrade ended up costing?
I saw your van this Friday. Hope it blows you away in person.
I saw you ask about places to try it out around Austin. Right now I use a trailer camper with no battery so I've always used the local State Parks for the power hookups. My favorite would be Pedernales State Park. Between 1-1:30h from SMB. Closer, and actually inside Austin, you have Emma Long State Park and McKinney Falls State Park. About a 2h drive from SMB is Inks Lake State park. None are very crowded this time of year. Most of my fellow Texans seem to avoid the slightly cold weather we get.