Sarah, Austin and Charlie take on the World
Up until this point in this blog, about all you've seen are photos of a dirty, 20-year old bus. Well, you're going to get a lot more dirty old bus pics in the coming weeks but I thought I would let you in on my vision and share our plans for what the thing is … Continue reading Making Plans: Getting into the Project
Interior starting to look less pretty. One step closer to actually building stuff. Four hours on a Sunday afternoon and the ceiling is coming out! After removing the rest valence panels, I broke out the pry bar and blacksmith hammer tried wrenching out the ceiling panels and rivets. 5 minutes and some very sore hands … Continue reading Gutting the Interior
So far our bus build hasn't really been much of a build, more of just shuffling things around. We have managed to get the bus home, pull the seats out but haven't managed to get rid of them yet. We took a load of about 10 to the local scrap yard in the back of … Continue reading Nuts and bolts: Getting to work
Our first and second days of owning a school bus had been very productive thus far: 22 seats taken out, photos taken for our State Farm Insurance Agent to prove we actually took the seats out, 22 seats reloaded and strapped in behind the driver seat, Generac 4000xl Generator loaded and Gas can loaded and … Continue reading The Maiden Voyage: Austin learns to drive a school bus
It was cool, rainy November Saturday in Rural South Georgia when we finally forked over a good part of our collective life savings, signed some paperwork and purchased a 20 year-old International 3800 School Bus. The grass along the two-lane highway was still clinging to the last of it's summer green before it adopted it's … Continue reading The Adventure Begins: 15,000 Pounds of Steel Joins the Family
Our plan to purchase a solid old school bus and turn it into our mobile palace was hatched about two months ago on a long romantic walk along the shoreline of Auke Bay in Juneau, Alaska on one of my very rare days off towards the end of my last contract as a full-time Seasonal … Continue reading Save The Date: Bus Purchase date confirmed and a plan is laid
Hello all and welcome to an account of a modernized (and some would argue bastardized) version of the American dream. I am a boat Captain and my fiancee is a relentless traveler. Our dog, Charlie, is barely out of his puppy phase (17 months) but is a smart little feller and has traveled farther in … Continue reading A preface
The Errorington's: a chronicle of adventure in Modern North America 